e-Policy Advisory Board

Overview

Our goal is provide our Omniva Policy Systems' customers with an effective management solution for addressing the growing risks surrounding uncontrolled email archives. The following is a list of experts in email policy management who work closely with Omniva Policy Systems as our advisors to ensure we achieve our goal.

Joan Feldman, President, Computer Forensics Inc.

Joan Feldman is a prominent computer forensics practitioner who advises companies on how to retrieve email that has been "erased." She is a former litigation and records management consultant, and has over twenty years of technical and management experience in computer forensics and litigation. Ms. Feldman founded Computer Forensics, a Seattle-based consulting firm, in 1994.

Nancy Flynn, Managing Director, e-Policy Institute

Nancy Flynn conducts e-policy seminars, netiquette programs and electronic writing workshops. As a recognized electronic communications expert, she has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and the Associated Press. She is the author of The $100,000 Writer, The ePolicy Handbook and the coauthor of Writing Effective E-mail.

Mike R. Overly, Special Counsel, Foley & Lardner

Michael R. Overly is an information technology attorney in Los Angeles, California. His practice is limited to counseling clients regarding technology licensing, copyright law, electronic commerce, and Internet and multimedia law. Mr. Overly speaks and writes frequently on the legal implications of technology in the workplace, electronic commerce, email, and electronic evidence. He has written numerous articles on these subjects and has authored chapters in several treatises. Mr. Overly is the author of the best selling e-policy: How to Develop Computer, Email, and Internet Guidelines to Protect Your Company and Its Assets (AMACOM 1998) and Overly on Electronic Evidence (West Publishing 1999).

Mark S. Vitalie, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young LLP

Mark S. Vitalie, CRM, a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young LLPs Litigation Advisory Services group, specializes in helping organizations with all aspects of document, records and information management involving paper-based and electronic documents and records. He assists organizations, their law departments and law firms with developing technology solutions for complex legal management issues. Some areas of focus include: (1) corporate records management program assessments; (2) enterprise-wide and departmental records management program development and implementation; (3) legal department and law firm technology strategic planning; (4) legal industry benchmarking, best practices, and surveys; (5) database systems analysis and design for litigation support; and (6) litigation advisory services.

Mr. Vitalie has spoken regularly on the topics of records management and technology since 1992 at conferences for the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, at Legal Tech conferences, and at LawNet conferences. His recent presentations have focused on integration of electronic records management technologies (e.g., messaging, document management, and records management applications) and mitigating the risks associated with the maintenance of electronic records.