Brightflag Leadership

Meet Brightflag’s legal technology, transformation, and customer success visionaries.

Kevin Cohn

General Manager
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 (acquired by Wiley), and Senior Vice President, Operations at Smartling, a language translation technology and services platform (acquired by Battery Ventures). Kevin is also a Board Director at Fundraise Up, a technology company used by impactful nonprofits to engage more donors and increase revenue with digital fundraising tools.

Dan Cobe

Vice President, Customer Success
Dan leads Brightflag’s customer success and professional services organization, ensuring that corporate legal departments and their vendors are supported by a team of trusted guides. Prior to joining Brightflag, Dan held various customer leadership positions at Smartling, the language translation platform.

Stephen Culligan

Vice President, Product
Stephen leads Brightflag’s product and design teams, ensuring customers benefit from intuitive, innovative software. He previously led product at Prommt, a payments platform, and Glofox, a fitness studio and gym software company. Stephen is passionate about applying modern practices to software design and development, and coaches future leaders as part of Mind the Product.

Michael Dineen

Vice President, Data Science
Michael is an experienced data science leader, having spent more than 12 years developing and implementing AI solutions. Part of the core team that built the Brightflag platform, Michael is passionate about the power of AI to transform legal operations. He is a regular speaker on AI, including at universities. Prior to joining Brightflag, Michael worked for Presidion, delivering AI consultancy services for banking, pharmaceutical, and utilities customers.

Laura Gleeson

Vice President, Legal & Compliance
Laura’s career has spanned senior legal roles both in private practice and in house, giving her first-hand exposure to the importance of legal technology. Prior to joining Brightflag, Laura spent more than ten years at Matheson, Ireland’s largest law firm, where she was a partner in its Finance and Capital Markets group, after which she served as senior counsel at PM Group, a multinational engineering firm. Laura serves as a board director at Make-A-Wish Ireland and has a degree in Law & European Studies and a Master of Laws from the University of Limerick.

Ashley Hayes

Vice President, Technology
Ashley has 15 years of experience leading engineering teams at e-invoicing and e-billing software companies. Prior to joining Brightflag, Ashley was Chief Technology Officer at Macalla (acquired by Mobileum) and Head of Product Engineering at BriteBill (acquired by Amdocs).

Jake Mendelson

Vice President, Sales
A customer-focused executive, Jake leads Brightflag’s team of sales professionals in partnering with legal operations visionaries to help them adopt legal tech successfully. Prior to joining Brightflag, Jake held various sales leadership positions at Rocketrip, the business travel platform.

Rebecca Meyer

Vice President, Revenue Operations
Rebecca leads the team that builds and scales processes and technologies that act as force multipliers for sustainable growth and our customers’ success. Rebecca also chairs Brightflag’s AI task force, driving adoption to ensure that Brightflag continues to benefit from the latest advances in technology.

Mike Scarpelli

Vice President, Finance
Mike has 15 years of experience leading finance teams at venture capital and private equity-backed companies, including at Reval, a cloud treasury software company, and ComplySci, a compliance platform. Mike’s career began at PwC, where he spent 9 years in the technology and media practice.

Jeff Soriano

Vice President, Marketing
Jeff is an accomplished marketing executive with nearly two decades of experience ranging from startups to $400 million revenue enterprises. Outside of work, Jeff plays six instruments (guitar, bass, drums, piano, trumpet, and ukulele), and shares his passion for sports by coaching youth lacrosse.

Ingrid Wallace

Vice President, People Operations
Ingrid is an experienced leader who has built and led people teams and programs at multiple scaling technology companies. Prior to joining Brightflag, Ingrid was VP of Organization Development at Boxever, where she built the people function and scaled the organization through its acquisition by Sitecore.