Management Team
Mark Diamond
President & CEO
Mark Diamond is one of the industry thought leaders in proactive litigation readiness, compliance, and records information management strategies. His company, Contoural, has helped 20% of the Fortune 500 plus many mid-sized and smaller organizations as well as public sector entities. As a trusted advisor he and his company help bridge legal, compliance and business needs and policies with effective legal and IT strategies and processes. Mark is a frequent industry speaker, presenting at numerous Legal and IT industry conferences as well as online venues. Additionally, Mark addresses more than one hundred internal corporate audiences each year.

Mark is founder, President & CEO of Contoural, Inc. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be the largest independent provider of litigation readiness and records and information management services. As an independent provider Contoural does not sell any products, provide any document review nor supply document warehousing services. Providing innovative approaches, these strategies help simplify complex issues, build consensus, ensure compliance, reduce risks and lower costs.

Mark is recognized as a thought leader in litigation readiness and records information management. He is an online columnist for InsideCounsel Magazine, as well as an author of numerous white papers for both the legal and IT communities. He is a frequent speaker at the Association for Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting and other legal conferences. He also served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security. Previously, He was co-founder of Symantec's (OpenVision) Professional Services group. Additionally, he was founder and General Manager, Worldwide Professional Services for Legato Systems, as well as Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at RightWorks, a provider of business application software to the B2B marketplace. Additionally he has worked as a management consultant. Mark sits on the board of advisors for high technology companies.

He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. He is former the President of the UC San Diego Alumni Association, and is currently a Trustee of the university's foundation.

Michael Casey
Vice President of Services Delivery
Mike Casey has more than 20 years experience in storage and high technology. Previously Mike was a storage analyst for Gartner, and a Compliance Officer for a medical device company. He has also held executive and marketing management positions at storage product companies such as Fujitsu, IBM and Shugart, and served most recently as VP of Marketing at Solid Data Systems. Mike has published numerous articles and papers on storage technology, compliance and data strategy, and has spoken at industry conferences such as Storage Decisions, Storage Networking World, and Gartner Planet Storage. He also serves as an expert on data retention and compliance for SearchStorage.com. Mike holds a BS in Physics and an MBA, both from Santa Clara University.

Greg Forest
Chief Technical Officer
Greg Forest has more than 20 years experience in storage, application software, programming, management, marketing, support, and implementation. As CTO for Contoural, he has developed methodologies to make archiving solution deployment predictable and cost effective, and has worked with Contoural clients to help them select solution vendors to satisfy demanding business objectives and technical requirements. Previously Greg worked as Director of IT for Legato Systems, responsible for governance, budgeting, and strategic vision. Prior to that he was a Senior Product Manager responsible for the technical integration of Legato products into storage solutions from Sun Microsystems and Compaq. Earlier he was responsible for Oracle deployment and the Developer's Program for SCO Unix across a variety of OEM hardware platforms.

Silvia Malaccorto
Vice President of Business Development
Silvia Malaccorto joins Contoural from EMC, where she served as director of global alliances. In her new role as vice president of business development she brings more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience in storage and information management technologies for EMC, Seagate, Conner Peripherals and others. Malaccorto, who began her career at Maxtor Corporation, is known in the industry for developing and leveraging successful multi-tiered sales channels, channel programs, and cultivating long-term alliances through the partnership lifecycle. She holds a bachelor of science in business administration from San Diego State University.

Judith Gum
Chief Financial Officer
Judy Gum is an experienced finance professional with more than 18 years of experience in financial operations, planning and management. Judy has worked in various financial positions with hardware, software and service provider firms including Unisys, Tandem, Compaq, Synopsys, Macromedia, Embrace Networks and Corio. She completed her MBA at Santa Clara University.



Services Team

Contoural's services team is composed of experienced, industry-leading storage experts. Our focus on storage and compliance ensures that your consultant or storage educator is truly an expert on storage. Our analysts have on average 12 years of industry experience. Our consultants have an average of nine years experience deploying application archiving and storage systems.


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