RenewData® Appoints Tom Shambo as Senior Vice President of Sales and Rich Cohen as Vice Chairman

Seasoned Sales Executive with Deep eDiscovery Roots will Enhance the Company’s Ability to Deliver Market-Driven Solutions Tailored to Individual Client Needs

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RenewData, a full-service eDiscovery provider that offers the industry’s broadest spectrum of review acceleration solutions, today announced that Tom Shambo has joined the company as senior vice president of sales. In this role, Shambo will draw from almost 20 years of executive sales experience to help drive the company toward even greater growth and profitability. He will participate on the management team and oversee the sales organization and personnel.

“He is a great strategist, leader, and coach who will immediately enhance our team, and over time will drive material efficiencies into the sales function.”

Shambo brings to RenewData deep experience in the eDiscovery market, as well as an excellent history of translating client needs into time- and cost-savings solutions. For the past 10 years, he has led account executive teams selling a wide range of eDiscovery offerings to Fortune 1000 corporations and AmLaw 200 law firms. Former customers include 19 of the Financial Times’ top 25 financial institutions, all of the top 10 global banks and 16 of the top 25 U.S. law firms.

“Tom’s proven track record in sales leadership, long history and contacts in our industry and expertise in maximizing client satisfaction will further position RenewData as a market leader in review acceleration,” said Jim Blayney, chief executive officer of RenewData. “He is a great strategist, leader, and coach who will immediately enhance our team, and over time will drive material efficiencies into the sales function.”

Most recently, Shambo was vice president of discovery sales for Autonomy, an HP Company. He previously held executive sales management positions at ZANTAZ and Steelpoint Technologies – giving him experience in the eDiscovery market that dates back to when it was in its infancy. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of New York at Oswego in mathematics and education and was an Adjunct Faculty member of Syracuse University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Shambo joins RenewData during an exciting time, with recent announcements including the addition of Clearwell eDiscovery software, the launch of its Language-Based Analytics offering and a new patent for its proprietary review acceleration technology. With the company’s suite of review acceleration solutions and expertise, clients can select from a variety of tools to best meet each case’s specific needs.

RenewData also announced today that Rich Cohen will now operate as vice chairman at the company and will be responsible for business development, corporate development and key strategic relationships.

“As a former general counsel and provider of services to the legal industry for the last 30-plus years, Rich brings keen insight to the eDiscovery needs of corporations and law firms,” said Blayney. “We are pleased to have someone with his experience in a high-impact position, and he will help us expand our reach to target markets, build our Language-Based Analytics Practice and enhance our partner network.”

To learn more about Shambo or Cohen, visit the company’s management team page.

To learn more about RenewData’s Language-Based Analytics, visit www.renewdata.com.

About RenewData

RenewData is a full-service eDiscovery provider that helps corporations and law firms achieve significant time and cost savings, attain a high level of defensibility and reliability, and easily manage multiple projects for legal, regulatory and investigative matters. The company has a deep history building and applying advanced technology for eDiscovery, and has a particular expertise in review acceleration, delivering the industry’s broadest spectrum of solutions to expedite analysis of large collections of data. Of particular note, RenewData’s Language-Based Analytics offering uniquely accelerates review without relying on artificial intelligence, delivering dramatic savings with a high level of transparency and insight into reviewer decisions. For more information, visit www.renewdata.com or call 888.811.3789.