Sustainability
Our Mission
We are driven to attract and encourage a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and ideas.
We strive to foster a global, inclusive culture where our employees feel valued, trusted, and empowered to better serve our clients.
We cultivate and celebrate our employees’ diverse strengths.
Leading with a Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Consilio’s DEI Advisory Board spearheads our efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at the company. The Board includes our DEI Officer and two supporting positions; the executive leadership team, who serve as standing members of the Board; and a number of “at large” members from a variety of corporate functions and geographic locations.
Senior Vice President
Drawing on more than 25 years of experience providing dedicated client service as an attorney and consultant, Maureen engages with Consilio’s customers to ensure a best-in-class client experience. She works cross-functionally across the company to develop and deploy best practices that embed Consilio’s commitment to service excellence, and to deliver the highest levels of quality and value. She seeks opportunities to create differentiating moments for clients—from bespoke educational sessions to loyalty programs to peer networking events—to foster client satisfaction and loyalty.
Maureen also serves as Consilio’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer. She leads the development and implementation of the company’s strategies, policies, and programs for ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Partnering with Consilio’s internal and client Advisory Boards on Diversity & Inclusion, Maureen guides the organization in carrying out its mission of attracting and encouraging a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas; fostering a global, inclusive culture; and celebrating employees’ diverse strengths.
Maureen is a respected industry thought leader, speaking and writing frequently on significant issues that impact Consilio’s clients, such as current challenges for legal professionals around data privacy and security; strategies and tactics for engaging in cross-border discovery; the latest developments in e-discovery law and practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession.
Prior to joining Consilio, Maureen was a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, where she represented Fortune 100 and other multinational companies in complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions. Maureen also co-chaired the Firm’s E-Discovery Practice Group. In that role, she advised clients on various e-discovery issues, such as identifying and inventorying sources of electronic information, drafting legal hold notices, and developing protocols for document collection, storage, and management. She also consulted internally with attorneys at the Firm on e-discovery issues, and helped develop best practices for litigators engaged in e-discovery.
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Vice President, US Managed Review and DEI Program Lead
Effie Sahihi is Vice President, US Managed Review at Consilio, a global legal services firm. In this role, Effie plans, implements, and supports large-scale eDiscovery projects for corporate clients and law firms. Her expertise includes class actions, large scale multi-jurisdictional litigations and regulatory investigations in the financial, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, legislative, transportation and other sectors. Effie also trains attorneys globally on eDiscovery platforms, processes and protocols. An expert on electronic document review in large-scale litigation, she works with attorneys and clients to design and tailor eDiscovery processes and practices to meet their specific needs.
Standing Members
Chief Executive Officer
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Andy Macdonald is CEO of Consilio where he is responsible for all strategic and operational initiatives to ensure client satisfaction and grow the business. Andy holds more than 20 years of executive experience across many industries and functional disciplines.
Prior to Consilio, Andy was a founding member of First Advantage Corporation’s management team and from 2003 – 2011 served in many capacities at the company, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he was with The First American Corporation as President, Occupational Health Services. Andy joined First American in 2002 through the acquisition of Bethesda, MD-based Employee Health Programs, where he was President and CEO.
Andy lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three children.
Chief Employee Experience Officer
As Consilio’s Chief Employee Experience Officer, Brandyn Payne is tasked with driving the company’s talent engine and shaping our current and future work culture. Her mission is to ensure our Consilio team has the tools and abilities they need to provide industry-leading partnership to our clients worldwide.
Prior to joining Consilio, Brandyn served as Chief HR Officer for HCTec, a healthcare technology services firm, and as VP of Global Talent for Sitel Worldwide, a leading business process outsourcer with operations in 24 countries. She has supported People, executive leadership strategies, and product development strategies across a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, technology and services. Brandyn resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Chief Marketing Officer
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John Hale is Chief Marketing Officer for Consilio, focused on cultivating customer connections to drive impact for Consilio and our clients. He is an accomplished and versatile business leader with over 20 years of progressive success identifying, developing, and commercializing B2B and B2C technology-based solutions across complex industries.
John is passionate about building teams that deliver growth by connecting data, technology and storytelling.
John’s leadership journey has included leading performance marketing globally for Fortune 500 staffing firm Kelly Services, consumer relationship marketing for Microsoft Office 365, and enterprise business planning for Microsoft Azure.
John lives in Dallas, TX with his wife and two children.
President
Meredith Kildow is an accomplished operations and sales executive with more than 25 years of experience across multiple industries. Her areas of expertise include expanding go-to-market strategies and bringing effective sales teams together through both organic and inorganic growth. Meredith is a champion of combining data-driven approaches with an emphasis on people, culture, and transformation to grow motivated, balanced business development teams.
As President, Meredith is focused on driving excellence in Consilio’s combined commercial business lines, including revenue, account management, and operational delivery across our global client base.
Prior to joining Consilio, Meredith was the Head of Global Sales Operations at Huron Legal and led operations at Hitachi Consulting.
General Counsel
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Michael Flanagan is General Counsel for Consilio. Prior to joining the company, Mike spent more than 20 years with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., the last 11 as a partner. In that role he counseled public and private companies on a broad range of legal matters, including the resolution of commercial disputes, the negotiation of corporate transactions and various compliance issues.
Mike was a founding member and a co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Data Discovery Initiative and Information Law Practice Group. In addition to his responsibilities as General Counsel, Mike writes and speaks regularly on eDiscovery issues.
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Raj Chandrasekar is Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Consilio where he oversees Consilio’s technology and innovation functions – merging Development and Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Product Management, Business Intelligence, and Corporate Services functions. In his role, Raj frequently interfaces with clients to understand and accommodate processing, security and uptime needs and is also responsible for the day-to-day operations along with day-to-day operations of our industry-leading eDiscovery and legal industry software solutions.
He joined Consilio from First Advantage, where he held the position of Chief Information Officer. Raj has over 25 years of experience in the field of Software Development and Infrastructure Management and has held technology leadership positions in various large corporations.
Raj lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife and two kids.
At Large Members
Employee Affinity Groups
One of the most effective ways of fostering a sense of inclusion for our employees is through our network of Employee Affinity Groups (EAGs). Our EAGs bring employees together from across business units and geographic locations around shared interests. These groups provide a supportive environment for employees to discuss important issues, learn from each other and from invited guests, develop valuable professional skills, and create a network of peers and friends.
Our Workforce Demographics
As part of our commitment to transparency and progress with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives we clearly publish Consilio’s employee demographics.
