Leadership
Ian Nolan
Co-Founder & CEO
Prior to co-founding Brightflag, Ian spent 8 years at CORTbase, a legal case management and business intelligence platform for law firms.
Alex Kelly
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Alex is a qualified lawyer, having spent six years as an associate in Matheson’s financial institutions practice.
Kevin Cohn
Chief Customer Officer
Kevin has extensive experience building cloud workflow, productivity, and analytics companies. Prior to joining Brightflag, Kevin was Chief Operating Officer at Atypon, a publishing software company, and SVP of Operations at Smartling, a language translation technology and services platform.
Ashley Hayes
Vice President, Engineering
Ashley has over fifteen years of experience leading engineering teams for e-invoicing and e-billing software companies, including Brite:Bill and Macalla.
Vishnu Thyagarajan
Vice President, Customer Success
Prior to joining Brightflag, Vishnu spent nearly a decade scaling customer success at Cloudera as the organization grew from a promising startup into a publicly-traded global enterprise with annual revenues of nearly $800 million. In addition to his work at Brightflag, Vishnu is an active member of the NextGen Venture Partners community.
Jill Altruda
Vice President, Marketing
Jill is an experienced global marketing leader who has built successful go-to-market strategies and managed effective marketing teams. Before Brightflag, she was the VP of Product Marketing for LLamasoft through its $1.5 billion acquisition by Coupa. Jill has also served in marketing leadership roles at ProQuest, an EdTech provider, and Truven Health (formerly Thomson Reuters), a healthcare data analytics provider.
John Joyce
Vice President, Alliances
John has wide-ranging experience building partner and alliance ecosystems for technology startups, “start-ins”, and large corporations. Prior to joining Brightflag, he was the Head of Partnerships at PandaDoc, a document automation/workflow and e-signature provider.
Barry O'Melia
Vice President, Product
Prior to joining Brightflag, Barry spent over 4 years at Relativity, the $3.6 Billion dollar leader in legal and compliance SaaS software. At Relativity, Barry led the product efforts for legal holds, information governance and data integration verticals. Barry’s experience at Relativity builds on his close to 20 years’ experience as a product leader in the legal technology space.
