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Who We Are

We are a fully remote team with a broad diversity of talent, experience and location.

Learn more about our team below and check out our open opportunities here.

Senior Leadership Team

Carla Swansburg

Carla Swansburg

Chief Executive Officer

Carla’s career in legal services spans several decades and includes experience in private practice as a commercial litigator, leading an investigations and disputes team at a large bank, Chief Innovation Officer at a large national Canadian law firm and building and managing the Canadian and LatAm business for a global alternative legal services provider. Carla obtained degrees in Theatre and Law from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and an MBA from Rotman/University of Toronto.

Terry Wallace

Terry Wallace

Vice President, Technology and Operations

Life long technology expert with 17 years of legal tech experience at a large Canadian law firm, previous owner of a software development company, and over a decade as technical director at a large university. Terry’s experience covers software development, solution architecting, automation, analytics, and web.

Daniel Himmel

Daniel Himmel

Vice President, Transactional Products & Strategy

Corporate lawyer turned technology generalist, Daniel was a seasoned M&A attorney and in house counsel before joining an early stage legal tech company focused on AI powered contract review software. While there, Daniel built and led teams of subject matter experts responsible for advising large global corporate and legal clients on digital transformation. Daniel recently joined Cleary X as a senior leader to help form and execute its transactional product strategy.

Alastair Ferguson

Alastair Ferguson

Vice President, Financial Services and Contract Management

Alastair has a long career in the financial services sector providing innovative legal solutions and running global teams of lawyers and other professionals., Alastair is a capital markets lawyer by background with a particular expertise in derivatives and other traded products. He has spent 15 years plus running large scale projects and contract management teams at bulge bracket investment banks, with focus on efficiency and transformation. Alastair has particular expertise in legal technology, contract lifecycle management, contract analysis and legal project management.

Carla Swansburg

Carla Swansburg

Chief Executive Officer

Carla’s career in legal services spans several decades and includes experience in private practice as a commercial litigator, leading an investigations and disputes team at a large bank, Chief Innovation Officer at a large national Canadian law firm and building and managing the Canadian and LatAm business for a global alternative legal services provider. Carla obtained degrees in Theatre and Law from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and an MBA from Rotman/University of Toronto.

Terry Wallace

Terry Wallace

Vice President, Technology and Operations

Life long technology expert with 17 years of legal tech experience at a large Canadian law firm, previous owner of a software development company, and over a decade as technical director at a large university. Terry’s experience covers software development, solution architecting, automation, analytics, and web.

Daniel Himmel

Daniel Himmel

Vice President, Transactional Products & Strategy

Corporate lawyer turned technology generalist, Daniel was a seasoned M&A attorney and in house counsel before joining an early stage legal tech company focused on AI powered contract review software. While there, Daniel built and led teams of subject matter experts responsible for advising large global corporate and legal clients on digital transformation. Daniel recently joined Cleary X as a senior leader to help form and execute its transactional product strategy.

Alastair Ferguson

Alastair Ferguson

Vice President, Financial Services and Contract Management

Alastair has a long career in the financial services sector providing innovative legal solutions and running global teams of lawyers and other professionals., Alastair is a capital markets lawyer by background with a particular expertise in derivatives and other traded products. He has spent 15 years plus running large scale projects and contract management teams at bulge bracket investment banks, with focus on efficiency and transformation. Alastair has particular expertise in legal technology, contract lifecycle management, contract analysis and legal project management.

Business & Operations Leadership

Oliver Wilkinson

Oliver Wilkinson

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for the design and implementation of the project management framework at ClearyX, Oliver has over a decade of legal industry project management experience. Prior to joining ClearyX Oliver worked in the Innovation department of a major law firm where his work focused on legal technology implementation and process improvement initiatives.

Daniel Furlong

Daniel Furlong

Senior Manager, Technology & Communications

With more than 15 years’ experience in providing marketing and technology support to leading legal and financial institutions, Daniel takes pride in combining design and technology to deliver innovative solutions.

Daniel’s experience covers design and brand management, communications, analytics, and web development.

Transactions Management

Gloria Kang​

Gloria Kang​

Senior Transactions Manager

Gloria is a corporate attorney with over a decade of experience advising on complex M&A, financing, and commercial transactions within both international law firm and startup settings. Passionate about process improvement and legal innovation, Gloria joined ClearyX as a subject matter expert to help develop, implement, and evaluate its transactional products and legal services, with a focus on increasing efficiencies and delivering better value to clients.

Dorothy Chu

Dorothy Chu

Transactions Manager – Real Estate

Dorothy worked as a solicitor with a focus on real estate and handled transactions from residential conveyances to multi-party large scale phased developments. One of the things she enjoyed was finding ways to streamline or automate bits of pieces of high volume work with whatever tools were available, and that interest led her to join ClearyX.

Nicholas Festa

Nicholas Festa

Transactions Manager

Nicholas Festa focuses on using transactional legal tech to increase efficiencies in the mergers & acquisitions due diligence process. His prior experience includes working in e-discovery and due diligence at another Vault top 50 law firm.

Analysts

Grace Ann Lazaro

Grace Ann Lazaro

Senior Analyst

Grace obtained her Master of Laws from Columbia Law School in 2019. After graduating, she worked for the New York State Unified Court System, initially as a Law Clerk then as an Appellate Court Attorney. Prior to moving to the US, Grace worked for an international law firm in Asia for 4 years.

William (Jody) Campbell

William (Jody) Campbell​

Senior Analyst

2018 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and former Diversity Editor of Georgetown Law Journal. Previous practice experience in the areas of real estate finance and e-discovery.

Deborah Adesomoju

Deborah Adesomoju

Analyst

Deborah Adesomoju’s practice focuses on corporate transactions. Deborah joined the team in 2022.

Tom Field

Tom Field

Analyst

Tom graduated in Law and has completed his LPC. Tom brings a wealth of experience to the team. Having worked in two large, innovative transactional teams in the UK, he has plenty of experience of working as part of an innovative team to deliver client needs. Tom has in-depth experience of working on large transactions, using technology, innovation and collaboration to help teams achieve intense deadlines and help client deliver large mandates.

Kaitland Goulet

Kaitland Goulet

Analyst

Kaitland graduated from the University of Alberta with her JD in 2019. After graduation she worked at a large regional firm practicing primarily in corporate commercial, real estate, wills and estates.

Nicole Heelan

Nicole Heelan

Analyst/Employment Services Lead

Nicole graduated with a JD from the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law in 2016. She was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2017 and most recently practiced at a full service regional law firm. Her prior experience includes employment law, human rights law, professional regulation and administrative law. Nicole is passionate about communication and looks forward to connecting with clients and supporting client services and employment projects.

Edgar Perez Olivares

Edgar Perez Olivares

Analyst

Edgar brings extensive eDiscovery experience acquired representing clients in the global financial services, insurance, health care, transportation and energy industries.  His work experience includes managing cross-border and domestic eDiscovery projects for AM Law 50 firms in New York and the Bay Area.

Adil Salomon

Adil Salomon

Analyst

Adil brings his experience working at a national law firm in Canada, along with a tech start-up to the team. He is dedicated to help the Company grow, through innovative and novel ways to deliver legal services.

Owen Song

Owen Song

Analyst

Owen holds a JD from Western Law and a MSc from Oxford University. His prior experience includes working in a venture capital fund with a focus on emerging technologies. He is passionate about delivering legal services more efficiently using legal tech.

Josh Sherkin

Josh Sherkin

Analyst

Josh completed the combined BCom/JD program at Queen’s University in 2019. Josh then worked as a corporate lawyer at a large Canadian law firm where he gained experience advising on M&A transactions. During his time working as a corporate lawyer, Josh grew a passion for using technology and innovation to help streamline the delivery of legal services and offer better value to clients.

Egi Troka

Egi Troka

Analyst

Egi is passionate about building the future of law. She brings a diverse set of skills, from creating legal tech tools during law school, to working at a Canadian law enforcement agency and practicing antitrust at one of Canada’s top Big Law firms.

Grace Ann Lazaro

Grace Ann Lazaro

Senior Analyst

Grace obtained her Master of Laws from Columbia Law School in 2019. After graduating, she worked for the New York State Unified Court System, initially as a Law Clerk then as an Appellate Court Attorney. Prior to moving to the US, Grace worked for an international law firm in Asia for 4 years.

William (Jody) Campbell

William (Jody) Campbell​

Senior Analyst

2018 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and former Diversity Editor of Georgetown Law Journal. Previous practice experience in the areas of real estate finance and e-discovery.

Deborah Adesomoju

Deborah Adesomoju

Analyst

Deborah Adesomoju’s practice focuses on corporate transactions. Deborah joined the team in 2022.

Tom Field

Tom Field

Analyst

Tom graduated in Law and has completed his LPC. Tom brings a wealth of experience to the team. Having worked in two large, innovative transactional teams in the UK, he has plenty of experience of working as part of an innovative team to deliver client needs. Tom has in-depth experience of working on large transactions, using technology, innovation and collaboration to help teams achieve intense deadlines and help client deliver large mandates.

Kaitland Goulet

Kaitland Goulet

Analyst

Kaitland graduated from the University of Alberta with her JD in 2019. After graduation she worked at a large regional firm practicing primarily in corporate commercial, real estate, wills and estates.

Nicole Heelan

Nicole Heelan

Analyst/Employment Services Lead

Nicole graduated with a JD from the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law in 2016. She was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2017 and most recently practiced at a full service regional law firm. Her prior experience includes employment law, human rights law, professional regulation and administrative law. Nicole is passionate about communication and looks forward to connecting with clients and supporting client services and employment projects.

Edgar Perez Olivares

Edgar Perez Olivares

Analyst

Edgar brings extensive eDiscovery experience acquired representing clients in the global financial services, insurance, health care, transportation and energy industries.  His work experience includes managing cross-border and domestic eDiscovery projects for AM Law 50 firms in New York and the Bay Area.

Adil Salomon

Adil Salomon

Analyst

Adil brings his experience working at a national law firm in Canada, along with a tech start-up to the team. He is dedicated to help the Company grow, through innovative and novel ways to deliver legal services.

Owen Song

Owen Song

Analyst

Owen holds a JD from Western Law and a MSc from Oxford University. His prior experience includes working in a venture capital fund with a focus on emerging technologies. He is passionate about delivering legal services more efficiently using legal tech.

Josh Sherkin

Josh Sherkin

Analyst

Josh completed the combined BCom/JD program at Queen’s University in 2019. Josh then worked as a corporate lawyer at a large Canadian law firm where he gained experience advising on M&A transactions. During his time working as a corporate lawyer, Josh grew a passion for using technology and innovation to help streamline the delivery of legal services and offer better value to clients.

Egi Troka

Egi Troka

Analyst

Egi is passionate about building the future of law. She brings a diverse set of skills, from creating legal tech tools during law school, to working at a Canadian law enforcement agency and practicing antitrust at one of Canada’s top Big Law firms.