“Others in our space are content to stay where they are. Not us. At Onit, I’m proud to help lead a team that is constantly innovating and building a diverse portfolio of solutions. Here, we’re not resting on our laurels — we’re using our experience, pedigree, and acumen to help customers modernize workflows that directly impact the operational efficiency of legal departments and, ultimately, the speed of revenue generation.”

Eric Elfman co-founded Onit with Eric Smith in 2010. At Onit, Eric oversees the company’s overall strategic direction, planning, and execution. A passionate leader and entrepreneur, he has founded four companies over the past 25 years, two of which have been software startups.

Previously, Eric served as an entrepreneur-in-residence for the Houston Technology Center (HTC), a business accelerator for Houston-based emerging technology companies. His first software startup, Datacert, Inc., is an industry-leading provider of corporate, legal, and IP spend and matter management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. During his more than 10 years as the CEO, president, and chairman of the board, Eric grew the company to $28 million in revenue and secured more than 100 Fortune 500 customers. Under his leadership, Datacert became one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America, with three consecutive listings on the Inc. 500.

Prior to Datacert, Eric co-founded PeerPoint Technologies, where his work helped identify new technology for e-invoice data management. Eric is a pioneer in the creation of the Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard (LEDES) and is an authority on the Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS).

Eric has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and earned an MBA from Rice University. He is a member of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and a board member for the Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, a non-profit organization that grants wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses.

“Onit’s enterprise solutions — both in Enterprise Legal Management and Contract Lifecycle Management — provide the backbone for organizations to streamline and scale up their legal operations. With Onit’s enterprise solutions, we’re enabling Legal to become a consistent revenue driver rather than a passive business protector.”

Scott Wallingford leads the team charged with accelerating the global growth of ELM and expanding CLM in the enterprise market. A versatile global technology executive, Scott brings a proven track record of transforming software businesses to the Onit team. Data-driven and people-oriented, Scott is known for his strong operational and inspirational leadership, simplifying the complex into an actionable view of the world to drive focus, deliver customer outcomes, and scale businesses.

Scott brings a depth of experience in legal technology solutions, having led the legal software solutions business unit at LexisNexis. There, he drove revenue growth in a portfolio of five software businesses serving corporations and law firms with workflow automation and productivity solutions.

Scott has also served in key roles at several other prominent companies. At Honeywell, Scott was VP of a global software and solutions business. As a key player on the Corporate Strategy team at AT&T, he helped shape the future direction and assessed opportunities for the telecom provider. Prior to that, Scott served in executive leadership roles for Sabre Corporation, the leading global travel commerce, software, and services company and the creator of Travelocity.

Earlier in his career, Scott was a principal with Booz & Co., the leading global management consultancy. He advised senior executives on business strategy, operations, financial performance, and M&A across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Scott holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.

“Delivering the solutions commercial businesses need to streamline processes, improve collaboration, and increase efficiencies is one of Onit’s foundational guiding lights. We’re relentlessly innovating our commercial products to provide the diverse, flexible options that companies demand for the modern business environment.”

Mark Weidick oversees Onit’s Commercial Business, which provides a comprehensive portfolio combining solutions from SimpleLegal, AXDRAFT, and SecureDocs. Mark has more than 25 years of executive and entrepreneurial experience, including creating and growing businesses through expertise in go-to-market strategy, customer acquisition, organizational performance, product development, new business development, and negotiation.

At SimpleLegal, Mark leads overall business operations for the Commercial businesses — including sales, marketing, product, and customer experience — to drive value creation and growth. Before SimpleLegal, Mark was CEO of hiQ Labs, an AI company applying machine learning (ML) to public information. He has held several executive leadership roles where he contributed to notable successes, including the growth of Cisco’s TelePresence video business from startup to $1B and the $420M acquisition of Savi Technology. Mark was also co-founder of TenHands, a video-as-a-service company for collaboration, web, and mobile application developers.

Mark holds an MBA from Boston College, a master’s in engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s in engineering from Clemson University.

“Our finance organization must provide scalable operations and processes that support Onit’s customer-centric focus as it enters the second decade of its history and help ensure the company maintains a path of predictable growth and profitability.”

Austin Owens ensures Onit’s finance organization helps the company drive growth while capitalizing on the accelerating demand for software solutions that drive efficiency and process automation. His leadership in global corporate financial strategies and operations includes financial forecasting, planning and reporting, financial performance management, and finance team leadership.

Most recently, Austin served as VP of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at the Dallas-based advertising services company Data Axle, supporting various activities ranging from business unit partnerships with sales and operations leadership to corporate and treasury-focused responsibilities related to cash management and business development. He also served as the lead across the entire lifecycle of merger and acquisition engagements.

Prior to Data Axle, Austin worked in various financial services roles for global enterprises, including Dell, Dow AgroSciences, and ExxonMobil.

Austin holds a B.A. in finance and economics from Montana State University-Bozeman and an M.B.A. in finance from the Purdue University Daniels School of Business. He is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

“Technology is at the heart of innovation; at Onit, being on the cutting edge in everything we create — particularly in our deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities — while maintaining an absolute focus on our customers’ experience and security is the key to our overall technical vision.”

Chris Fields oversees the company’s technical vision and leads product research, engineering, and development efforts. Chris has over 25 years of technology research and software development experience, including several key management and executive positions at various high-growth companies, such as Datacert, Digicontract, and Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions.

At Onit, Chris evaluates and implements new systems and infrastructure and ensures technologies are used efficiently and securely. Additionally, he creates quality assurance and data protection processes and communicates the company’s technology strategy to our consulting and business partners and customers.

Chris most recently served as CTO for Innovative Interfaces, where he led the engineering and product management team and was responsible for converting client/server-based technologies into a multi-tenant system leveraging cloud-based microservices for global library systems. He is well-versed in leading technology strategy and all aspects of product engineering and was one of the key inventors named on a patent of a high-profile technology platform.

Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Baylor University.

“As a leader in the legal technology space, it’s imperative that we provide rock-solid legal support to every department at Onit. I’m also proud to deploy Onit’s own solutions to help my team run an efficient, progressive, and collaborative department that helps improve operational and cost efficiency while also influencing faster revenue generation and business growth.”

Stasha Jain has been practicing law for more than 20 years, the majority of which has been as in-house counsel. She is currently general counsel at Onit where she is responsible for all legal support for Onit and its family of companies.

Stasha and her team work closely with the Onit leadership team and other key stakeholders to effectively deliver legal services, including contract lifecycle management, spend management, M&A, compliance, data privacy, and other areas of significant company-wide impact. Incidentally, she also enjoys using Onit tools to help her team run an efficient legal department.

Stasha’s rich experience and background includes serving as senior legal counsel at ZS Associates, Inc., a boutique consulting firm, and corporate counsel at Hewitt Associates (now known as Alight Solutions), a human resources outsourcing firm.

Stasha received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.

“The business of law is an endlessly fascinating — and endlessly promising — marketplace for ideas and products. For over a decade, Onit has been at the forefront of the industry, and I’m honored to help bring Onit’s groundbreaking, pioneering message to many of the world’s largest enterprises as they look to modernize their legal operations and contribute to the top- and bottom-lines of their businesses.”

Matt DenOuden has over 30 years of legal industry experience, including a dozen years practicing law as a partner in a boutique defense firm in Hartford, Connecticut. While there, he started and grew an early e-discovery technology practice. In 2002, he left private practice to join a young e-billing company, TyMetrix. As vice president of sales for TyMetrix for 14 years, he helped take the company from four clients and $2 million in revenue to 250 clients and $60 million in revenue.

He came to Onit in 2016 when it had a few dozen customers. Matt has spent his career working with clients and industry leaders and has a passion for developing solutions to manage the business of law and to drive the hyper-automation of the legal space. Over the arch of his career thus far, he has worked with over 200 of the Fortune 500 and 400 of the Global 2,000.

Matt has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Hartford and a J.D. from The University of Connecticut School of Law.

“Our customers trust in us to help them become transformational agents in creating both productive and impactful corporate cultures while simultaneously driving business results. Making their journey a successful one — from seamless implementation and coordination with their team to ongoing service throughout our relationship — is the highest priority for my team.”

Scott Kurtz supervises client implementations and helps build service capabilities as Onit continues to grow its customer base. He has more than two decades of professional services experience in software and finance, including technology management, business and consulting operations, business process consulting, professional services, and contract management.

Scott’s broad and varied background includes serving as the executive vice president of global professional services at Openlink, where he was responsible for driving professional services sales and managing professional services globally. Prior to that, he was vice president of professional services at Amphora, where he maintained executive relationships for product implementations and managed energy trading software implementations. During his career, Scott also held several key management and executive financial positions at various high-growth companies.

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.