Director of Legal @ Malbek | Legal Tech Author and Commentator | Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree | Legal Tech Startup Advisor and Investor

I help legal professionals, legal teams, and technology organizations make sense of legal technology so they can work smarter, deliver stronger outcomes, and lead with confidence in a field that is often noisy, fragmented, and misunderstood.

As General Counsel of Malbek and a long-time educator, author, and advocate, I sit at the intersection of law, technology, and learning. My work centers on translation. I take complex, fast-moving technologies and turn them into clear concepts, practical strategies, and informed decisions that legal professionals can actually use. Whether guiding teams through digital transformation or shaping how legal products are built and adopted, my focus is always on clarity over hype.

Teaching is core to how I operate. I regularly speak to diverse audiences, from military organizations to law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as large professional groups, on AI’s impact on legal work and the responsible, effective use of technology. Across these settings, my goal is the same: to help people understand not just what tools do, but how they change legal work, roles, and judgment.

That same educational mission runs through my writing and publishing. I am the author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem, a foundational guide to understanding the industry and its players, a co-author of CLM for Dummies, and the editor of the Handbook of Legal Tech. I also write regularly, serve as a columnist for Today’s General Counsel, and contribute through podcasts, webinars, and industry forums. Each platform is another way to make legal tech more accessible, grounded, and actionable.

Across every role, my aim is to equip people with the knowledge and confidence to engage with innovation thoughtfully and critically. If you are trying to cut through the legal tech noise, educate your team, modernize how your legal function operates, or build tools that truly serve legal professionals, I help move you from uncertainty to understanding and from learning to execution.

Let’s build what comes next.

Colin Levy

Hemanth Puttaswamy

Malbek

Streamlining quote and contract management from proposal to request to signature and post-contract execution, Malbek provides an innovative solution for proposal and contract life cycle management that is laser-focused on accelerating your contract profitability, helping you Speed the Green™. 

With user experience as simple as using an ATM, our solution is like no other you've ever seen. Our guided selling, contracting and insights will ensure effective contract management and that you never miss a key term or milestone again!

CEO and Co-Founder

Revitas (now Model N)

Responsible for Product Strategy, Engineering and Dev Ops

CTO and SVP Products and Technology

Saba

Responsible for Product Strategy,Engineering, Design and Delivery of Saba Cloud Unified Talent Management Platform, a Cloud based SaaS offering.

CTO and SVP Products and Development

Application Development responsibility for Saba People Cloud (Social, Talent Suite, Learning Management System, Saba Meeting) - an Integrated SaaS Application Experience.

VP Application Development

Coremetrics, An IBM Company

* Overall Technology Direction for different product lines
* Reviewing Partnership Integration opportunities
* Bringing in newer and cooler apps to Marketplace
* Collaborating with Operations and Infrastructure team to build/deploy solutions that can scale for 1000's of brands
* Collaborating with Client Services team to look for opportunities to reduce any customer pain based on patterns of feedback and improving customer experience on a continuous basis

VP, Technology and Architecture

Sr. Director - Technology and Architecture

Coremetrics

Director and Architect

JavaSoft, Sun Microsystem

Staff Engineer

Chordiant

Software Engineer

Change Agent, Problem Solver and Customer Advocate - https://www.malbek.io

The Malbek team has an amazing culture that is focused on delighting our customers. We solve complex quoting and contracting problems with easy-to-use, yet powerful solutions. A consumer-grade user experience with relevant, powerful intelligence is what sets Malbek apart.

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