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About Steve

Steve loves digging into complex business problems and solving them. He got his start in the consulting world nearly 20 years ago and has since used his background as a consultant and tech geek to help people in eDiscovery work faster and smarter. Steve founded Milyli in 2008, and since then, he’s been living the “make it like you like it” dream and helping our clients do the same.

Steve Ankenbrandt

Steve Ankenbrandt

CEO & Founder

About Pete

Pete has been with Milyli almost since its founding and has kept the lights on – literally and figuratively – ever since. We would be lost without him.

Pete Brown

Pete Brown

Systems Administrator

About Jennifer

Jennifer attended the University of Illinois and worked sales support in the food industry previous to joining Milyli. In her free time, Jennifer likes to read and go running. She also likes to travel and her favorite places to visit are national parks.

Jennifer Culli

Jennifer Culli

Sales Administrator

About Amanda

Amanda Gbur strives to apply strong attention to detail in everything she does. Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College Chicago and joined Milyli in February of 2022 after spending ten successful years in the film and television industry. Amanda enjoys a variety of hobbies, but what she loves most is watching movies and television shows while spending time with her family, friends, and pets.

Amanda Gbur

Amanda Gbur

Business Dev Manager

About Jeffrey

Jeffrey loves helping others solve problems and learning in the process. In his free time, Jeffrey enjoys binging TV shows, spending time with his family and friends, and trying new foods and restaurants. A lover of animals, Jeffrey is hoping to add caring for a four-legged companion to the mix some time soon.

Jeffrey Levinson

Jeffrey Levinson

Account Manager Lead

About Peter

Peter joined Milyli in 2016 as Director of Finance after 7 years at PwC and 2 years consulting at The Siegfried Group developing his deep love of using financial analysis to make sense of complicated business issues. When not in spreadsheets, Peter enjoys spending time with his wife, Maureen, and two young children. Most summer weekends you’ll find him on a boat with family and friends.

Peter Nachtsheim

Peter Nachtsheim

Director of Finance

About Timothy

Whoops! I’ve been so busy helping people solve their eDiscovery problems that I haven’t had time to write my bio.

Timothy Randall

Timothy Randall

VP, Sales and Marketing

About Kristy

Kristy loves working in HR because she's able to pursue her passion and help teams with their most important resource – people! When Kristy is not spreading HR joy, she can be found spending time with her loved ones (the human and four-legged variety), binging great TV, meeting interesting people at fan conventions, listening to podcasts, reading, traveling, yoga, and trying out new hobbies.

Kristy Sullivan

Kristy Sullivan

Senior HR Manager

About Joey

Joey is a Product Manager with a passion for building user-focused tech. Naturally curious, he loves experimenting (varying success) in the kitchen and diving into new books. He also enjoys running, watching football on a Sunday, and exploring Chicago's neighborhoods.

Joey Wakeman

Joey Wakeman

Product Manager

About Jed

Jed focuses his team on understanding customer needs, pain points, and goals when designing solutions for them. Using an iterative approach, Jed finds the right pairing of technologies and processes that deliver the highest value features to customers as quickly as possible. He co-founded Milyli in 2008, prior to which he worked at the SAVO Group and kCura/Relativity.

Jed Cassinelli

Jed Cassinelli

VP, Services + Founder

About Alex

Alex is a Senior Product Manager with a background in both EdTech and the financial industry. With a passion for building intuitive, impactful digital experiences, he brings a user-centered approach to solving complex problems and delivering value to clients. Outside of work, he is a dedicated coach and mentor, leading his community's high school football and lacrosse teams. Coaching allows him to foster teamwork, resilience, and confidence in young athletes. Whether on the field or in the office, he thrives on helping others grow, building strong teams, and creating environments where people can succeed.

Alex Carrick

Alex Carrick

Senior Product Manager

About Emily

Emily is our Assistant Controller and Office Manager. Before joining Milyli, Emily worked as a forensic accountant for 5 years at Meaden & Moore and most recently worked as a staff accountant for the startup firm, Hunt Club. Emily enjoys playing tennis and soccer, and loves to talk podcasts, music, and comedy!

Emily DuPlessis

Emily DuPlessis

Asst Controller & Office Mgr

About Carl

Carl enjoys learning new technologies and applying them to solve complex problems. His other interests include playing guitar, reading, following the local sports teams, and spending time with his family and friends.

Carl Layton

Carl Layton

Lead Software Engineer

About Jacob

In 2013, Jacob started as a summer intern and grew into his role as Engineering Manager on the product team. Now, his work focuses on uncovering ways to make Milyli’s products more efficient for their users. He loves tinkering with code to produce higher-quality experiences and showing his team how to do the same. His favorite planning tool is a white board.

Jacob Malliet

Jacob Malliet

Engineering Manager

About Barrett

Barrett Newell is a Kentuckiana native who is now a proud, broad-shouldered Chicagoan. He specializes in integrated marketing. However, having come of age during the Myspace and Tumblr era, it’s hard for him to talk about himself in anything other than cryptic song lyrics. (Keep looking up for the ladder!)

Barrett Newell

Barrett Newell

Senior Marketing Manager

About June

June went to college with a passion for video game development, and jumped into the wider software industry with the goal of trying to understand and support customers' wants and needs to make their experience as smooth as possible. Having started in QA and worked as a User Experience Engineer, both at Milyli, she's now joined the Customer Advocacy team to work more directly with our clients.

June Sery

June Sery

Senior Customer Advocate

About Liam

Liam graduated from Carleton College in 2020, and joined Milyli in 2022. He enjoys problem-solving, which drew him to development work. In his spare time, Liam enjoys cycling, chasing after his dog, and attending any Chicago sporting events for which he can get tickets.

Liam Sullivan

Liam Sullivan

Software Developer

About Micah

Whoops! I’ve been so busy helping people solve their eDiscovery problems that I haven’t had time to write my bio.

Micah Weinflash

Micah Weinflash

Account Manager

About Chuck

Chuck first copied a drawing program from BYTE magazine into a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980. His hobbies over the years have included reading, writing, acting, biking, seeing movies, playing viola & guitar, video and other gaming. Starting Milyli was a great way to bring together the problem-solving, creativity, and discipline of many of his pastimes into the craft of software engineering.

Chuck Kinnan

Chuck Kinnan

CTO + Founder

About Eric

Cormack once collected someone who was wearing a full suit of armor from the airport; this passenger was told to expect someone who looked like “Freddie Mercury, but serious.” Cormack works as a software developer to support their family’s swordplay habit.

Eric T. Cormack

Eric T. Cormack

Senior Developer

About Lissa

Lissa previously worked at Milyli in Ops, left to complete her MA in Computer Science, and returned as an Automation Engineer. In addition to her team, she loves traveling, hiking, and off-roading with her husband. She enjoys yoga, has a passion for food, and loves being a mom. She’s hoping to master crow pose, own land in Moab, and visit all 50 states with her son before he goes to college.

Lissa Errea

Lissa Errea

Quality Engineering Lead

About Cooper

Originally from Pittsburg, Cooper holds a degree in biobehavioral health from Penn State University with additional computer engineering certifications. These unique power stats allow Cooper to be one of the most leveled-up players in support – knowing how to manage technical challenges without losing sight of the person in need of an assist.

Cooper Legg

Cooper Legg

Senior Customer Advocate

About Laura

Laura brings a background in physics and law, as well as a love for solving problems, to her work as a software developer. In her free time, she tends to her houseplants and balcony garden, bikes with her family, reads mystery novels, and tries to learn Korean cooking.

Laura Moon

Laura Moon

Senior Software Developer

About Quinn

Quinn hails from a cool town in Wisconsin called Appleton. Sometimes when no one is looking, he sits at his desk and does some work, for which he receives company-wide praise and has elevated his sense of Self to a ridiculously high level. When not sitting on his throne, Quinn works as a “Game of Thrones” extra. But not really. His favorite movie is “Dragonheart.”

Quinn Palmer

Quinn Palmer

Automation Engineer

About Damian

Damian is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience managing complex infrastructure, data center operations, and software implementation in high-demand environments. Known for his strategic approach and technical expertise, he plays a key role in ensuring the reliability and performance of critical IT systems. Outside the office, Damian enjoys playing the electric bass guitar and is an avid fan of quality music.

Damian Styga

Damian Styga

IT Manager

About Brian

Brian – or "BVK" as the team knows him – started at Milyli as a software developer in 2016. Previously, he worked for Packet Power, Neutron Star Games, and End All Games. The Milyli team looks up to BVK – not just because he's tall – but because of his ongoing dedication to delivering quality features and thorough testing solutions for Milyli products.

Brian von Kuster

Brian von Kuster

Senior Developer

About Tony

Tony loves video games and comes from a game development background. He currently has the largest Steam game collection among all at the company. With the help of June and Tim, Tony started an internal video-game-of-the-month club where they try to actually play the games they purchase and comment on what they thought of them.

Tony Zahnle

Tony Zahnle

Senior Developer

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