Leadership Team

As Chief Executive Officer at Lighthouse, Ron Markezich brings more than 30 years of experience in building technology solutions and serving the largest enterprises in the world. As Lighthouse CEO, Ron’s focus is on providing exceptional service to our clients, building innovative eDiscovery, compliance, and governance solutions, as well as developing a strong and diverse team.

Ron joins Lighthouse from Microsoft where he spent the last 24 years in leadership roles across nearly every functional area. His mission was to grow Microsoft’s commercial cloud services which he did as the Office 365 incubation leader, which led to leadership roles responsible for U.S. Enterprise Sales, Microsoft 365 Marketing, and Global Pricing & Licensing. While Ron was Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer, he started Microsoft’s commercial cloud services in 2007. During this time, Ron’s incubation team sold, migrated, and supported Microsoft’s first cloud customers, which included many of the top brands in the world.

Ron started his career at Accenture, then Andersen Consulting, where he worked for almost 10 years serving clients across the U.S. and helping build Accenture’s offshore development office in Manila, Philippines. He began his Accenture career as a software developer and advanced to a leadership position on some of the biggest, most complex consulting projects and programs conducted by Accenture at the time.

Ron received a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems at the University of Notre Dame, where he was also a cross country All-American and track & field school record holder in the 10,000M. He and his wife, Debbie, have four children and reside in the Seattle area.

David joined Lighthouse in 2017 as the Chief Financial Officer and became the Chief Operating Officer in 2019. He is responsible for service delivery and infrastructure including client service, expert solutions, and eDiscovery operations as well as datacenter, security, and enterprise project management.  

Prior to Lighthouse, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administration Officer at Blue Nile, a publicly traded ecommerce company, from 2011 to 2017. In those roles, his responsibilities included all aspects of finance, accounting, and treasury as well as supply chain management, fulfillment center operations, physical security, legal, and pricing. From 2008 to 2011, he was Chief Financial Officer at Infospace, a publicly traded internet content and technology company.

David earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University. He lives in Seattle with his wife, young son, and badly behaved dog. He enjoys biking, watersports, and is working on bettering his tennis game and guitar play.

As a Senior Vice President responsible for Corporate Development and Partnerships, Chris is responsible for working closely with the Lighthouse Executive Team, Product Management, and Engineering to ensure Lighthouse and client goals and strategic needs are closely aligned. His innovative and best-in-class thought leadership allows for development and facilitation of partnerships with companies such as Microsoft and Relativity to ensure Lighthouse stays closely aligned with third party software that matters most to clients.

In addition, Chris works closely with the Executive Leadership team to evaluate opportunities for Lighthouse to further build capabilities to meet client needs more comprehensively, including further honing existing products and offerings, exploring new products and offerings, exploring new partnerships, and evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions. All these efforts help define Lighthouse’s market-leading vision, ensuring that vision inspires Lighthouse’s clients and employees alike.

Since joining Lighthouse in 2011, Chris has led or launched multiple functions and business lines including Information Technology, Product Development, eDiscovery Solutions, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Global Advisory services, and Digital Forensics. His teams have launched some of the most innovative technology in the market such as Lighthouse's SaaS eDiscovery platform, Spectra; Lighthouse's Advanced analytics platform, Prism; and Lighthouse's information governance tools, such as CloudCompass.

With more than two decades of experience as a technical leader in eDiscovery, before Lighthouse Chris worked for the law firm of K&L Gates from 2003 to 2011 in its eDiscovery Analysis and Technology (e-DAT) Practice Group. As a Lead Analyst for e-DAT, his primary responsibilities included developing solutions for complex technical workflows surrounding the collection, processing, analysis, and review of electronically stored information for thousands of cases and investigations. During that time, Chris also served as Board Member of FTI Consulting’s Attenex Technical Working Group and participated in product development with several other eDiscovery software companies.

Chris received his undergraduate degree from Whitman College and a law degree from Seattle University School of Law. During law school, Chris served as Judicial Extern to the Honorable James L. Robart, United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Washington. Chris is a licensed attorney in Washington State. 

Pankaj is the Chief Technology Officer at Lighthouse with global responsibility for all technology strategy, engineering, and product management. As the legal sector embraces Big Data, ML, and AI, Pankaj is on a mission to ensure that Lighthouse continues to blaze the trail in this sector and establishes itself as the industry leader.

Pankaj is a multifaceted leader with extensive experience building SaaS, PaaS, and Mobile Applications through more than a quarter-century in product development, product management, security, and the developer ecosystem. He honed his expertise at global companies including Microsoft, GE Healthcare, and AT&T. Before Lighthouse, Pankaj was vice president, software engineering at Tableau (a Salesforce company). He joined Tableau in early 2017 before the Salesforce acquisition and led initiatives to improve developer productivity. In 2018, he was tasked with moving Tableau from an on-prem solution to a SaaS solution, which he successfully accomplished. Tableau Online grew dramatically to $250 million in annual revenues under his leadership. Previously at Lumedx, Pankaj launched a new health view analytics offering helping improve patient outcomes using AI and ML.

Pankaj received his Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science from Punjabi University in India.

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As the Chief People Officer at Lighthouse, Kelly oversees the company’s global human resources operations and works to perpetuate the company’s culture as Lighthouse continues to expand its global footprint and employee base. Kelly has been in tech her entire career, starting on the business side building B2B websites in the late 1980’s using Netscape Navigator and leading enterprise software implementations (SAP) prior to shifting to HR almost 20 years ago. Prior to Lighthouse, Kelly was the Director of Culture and Inclusion for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and was responsible for scaling and evolving the AWS culture for over 50K employees around the world. Prior to joining Amazon, Kelly was Chief People Officer at two high growth/founder-run tech companies, where she focused on helping to drive rapid business growth and executive development. Prior to her role as Chief People Officer, Kelly spent time in a variety of HR and Talent Acquisition leadership roles at Expedia, Microsoft, and T-Mobile.

Kelly studied computer information systems at Florida Atlantic University and is a certified network engineer. She holds a PhD in Metaphysics from University of Metaphysical Science in California.

Mike brings over two decades of diverse leadership experience, from running the revenue and sales functions for technology-based service companies to his role at Lighthouse. As Senior Vice President, Sales & Client Success, he drives revenue by overseeing and growing Lighthouse’s business development team and sales efforts, expanding channel relationships, and continuing to build a culture of excellence. Mike also works to ensure continuous improvements in Lighthouse’s go-to-market strategies.

Prior to Lighthouse, Mike was the Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Globys inc., where he defined the company’s market strategy and grew the sales pipeline by more than $60 million in less than one year.

Before Globys, Mike was President and Chief Executive Officer of Calico Energy. It was in this role that he established a performance-based corporate culture tied to the company’s go-to-market strategy, built a predictable recurring revenue model with high margins and a large backlog of contracted revenue, and raised $13 million in growth capital.

Miller received a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Syracuse University.

JP manages Lighthouse’s renowned solutions teams, from Client Services, to Review and Advanced Analytics, Forensics, Spectra, and Information Governance.

JP has had a distinguished career building innovative technology businesses, both inside large enterprises and as a founder of successful startups. Immediately prior to Lighthouse, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Identity Digital responsible for the largest registry of top-level domains in the world. John managed Product Development, Operations, Sales, and Marketing. Identity was #1 in Deloitte’s “Fast 500” and was acquired by Abry Partners in October 2018.

JP has been prominent in the Seattle startup community for almost two decades. He was co-founder and CEO at Elemental, which was acquired by Porch in 2015. Elemental created Sprio, a secure group management and communication platform, and TapClips, an action video capture app that was purchased by Sports Illustrated.

He was also co-founder and CEO of Jott—a voice-based mobile assistant—which had a great run in the early smartphone days and was featured by Apple in print media and public relations. Jott was acquired by Nuance in 2009. In his years at Nuance, JP was the Vice President of the Voice to Text Services division, which during his time grew paid users from zero to over 80 million worldwide.

JP had a 13-year career at Microsoft beginning in the early 1990s. He was a Product Manager both for massive products (Office) as well as ones more leading edge (Sidewalk.com). He was one of the early managers at Expedia – then the Travel Business Unit within Microsoft – leading its international teams, launching the service in the UK, Germany, and Australia. After its Microsoft spin-out and initial public offering, JP also shipped Expedia’s first corporate travel product, and designed and shipped the first mobile travel assistant – Expedia To Go.

For several years out of college, JP was at Harvard’s Institute for International Development, managing a portfolio of grant funding to public health research teams in Thailand, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

JP has an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BA in History from Kenyon College.

As Chief Marketing Officer of Lighthouse, Stacy serves as an innovative marketer leading with a customer-obsessed, insights-driven, and outcome-based approach to branding, communications, thought leadership, demand generation, and product and solutions marketing. She’s a versatile leader known for developing and inspiring high performing teams. Stacy has a long history of growing brands and building strong workplace cultures, and believes great brands are built from the inside out, energized by a culture that promotes growth, impact and belonging.

Prior to this role, Stacy was Vice President of Marketing at Lighthouse from August 2017 to January 2023. Before Lighthouse, she was the Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Blucora NASDAQ: BCOR (formerly Infospace), where she provided overall guidance for the company’s internal and external communications, brand, and corporate giving functions. While there, Stacy implemented plans to ensure a positive corporate image and culture during multiple phases of turnaround, strategic repositioning, and renewal. She also led numerous financial communications initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and public offerings.

Before joining Blucora in 2005, Stacy was an Investment Relations Analyst at Cascade Investment, a private investment and holding company for William H. Gates III and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previous to her role at Cascade Investment, she served in various investor relations roles at 360networks Inc. and XO Communications. She began her career at Telecommunications Inc. (now Comcast Corp) in marketing.

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Josh is the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Lighthouse. In this role, he is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships across the United States to a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 law firms.

Josh is one of the founders of Lighthouse. Since 1995, Josh has been advising law firms and corporations on a wide range of discovery matters, including document management, data collection, forensic investigations, and data processing, review, and production. He has advised clients with eDiscovery and document issues in thousands of commercial disputes, patent infringement cases, antitrust cases, government investigations, and class action lawsuits. Josh has extensive experience with a broad range of discovery matters with a focus on technology companies, pharmaceutical, medical device and health care firms, and large industrial and manufacturing entities, assisting them through litigation, and internal investigations, and governmental investigations. He works with clients to develop specific strategies to streamline the collection, processing, review, and production of large-scale, complex matters.

Josh has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington State University.

Areas of Expertise:

• Antitrust and Trade Regulation
• Class Action
• Commercial Litigation
• Construction
• Intellectual Property
• Internal Investigations
• Labor and Employment
• Patent
• Product Liability
• Securities

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