management Team

Bob Gomes

Bob Gomes, Chief Executive Officer of Scarab Consulting, leads the organization’s vision, strategic initiatives, revenue growth, and profitability. Mr. Gomes possesses nearly 30 years experience as an entrepreneur and senior executive in diverse organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. He is an accomplished, innovative, and results-driven executive with broad based experience in operations, finance, and business development. Mr. Gomes brings a proven ability to quickly analyze business drivers and develop strategies to grow the bottom-line, as well as strong execution skills, the ability to build top performing teams, and his track record in driving accelerated growth of young companies to Scarab Consulting.

Mr. Gomes is a pioneer of the electronic evidence and information governance industry, having co-founded RenewData 10 years ago. As CEO of RenewData, Mr. Gomes grew the business from a start-up to a company with 300 clients, revenue of $30M in four years, and a ranking of #135 on the INC 500 Fastest Growing Companies. He provided senior leadership to over 200 employees, as they designed and implemented innovative software and services and delivered the highest quality e-discovery services for corporations and law firms.

Mr. Gomes has built a track record of successfully leading start-ups, turnarounds and rapidly growing companies. Mr. Gomes also held executive management positions at numerous corporations in the high-tech and medical products industries, prior to founding RenewData. In these positions at corporations such as Infraworks Corporation, Medtronic, and Integrated Solutions he led innovative and industry-leading teams, successfully raised growth capital, and was instrumental in exponential growth of revenue, employees, and the client base. Mr. Gomes holds a B.S.M.E. from the University of Massachusetts and attended graduate studies in Business Administration at Northeastern University.  

Larry Lieb

Larry Lieb is the Chief Innovation Officer of Scarab Consulting responsible for generating and applying original intellectual property in the field of electronic discovery. Since 1998, Mr. Lieb has been a nationally recognized expert on the best methods to reduce the overall costs of dispute resolution through the appropriate application of technology. Mr. Lieb created, operated, and sold the largest computer forensics and e-discovery provider in the Midwest. The company is still in existence today and enjoys an excellent national reputation.

Mr. Lieb regularly provides corporations with accurate litigation cost models using his proprietary methods. His Total Cost of Litigation model allows corporations to make an informed cost risk analysis of pursuing any given litigation matter by understanding the true total costs that will be encountered including outside vendors, internal and external counsel costs, court reporting, expert witness costs and more.

His models also enable corporations to measure the true cost reductions that can be achieved by building internal litigation support capabilities. Armed with his expertise, corporate legal departments predict and therefore are able to justify conservative returns on investment for bringing litigation technology in house.

Mr. Lieb is a nationally-recognized speaker, thought-leader, author, and CLE instructor regarding e-discovery best practices, and cost and risk management. He often participates in speaking engagements at conferences on e-discovery, and participates in various expert forums and advisory groups, including the 2,000 member Litigation Support Yahoo Group of which he is Founder and Owner.

Mr. Lieb received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Illinois, was a Kohn Scholar in the Humanities, and spent his Junior Year at Konan University in Kobe Japan.

Fred Kopec

Frederick Kopec comes to Scarab from the law firm of Moster Wynne & Ressler, PC, where he was Corporate Counsel, and used his 25 years of private legal experience to help executives and entrepreneurs with their commercial, transactional, real estate, intellectual property, litigation and employment law matters.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Kopec served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Renew Data Corp. There, Mr. Kopec was responsible for all corporate legal matters, including sales, purchasing, licensing, real estate, litigation management and employment law issues. He managed the company’s legal department, and helped coordinate and close two rounds of private equity funding totaling $35 million.

During his tenure as Group Legal Counsel of 724 Solutions, Inc., Mr. Kopec managed the legal transactions of the international public company’s worldwide software development, licensing and professional services businesses and served as an advisor to senior management. He developed and implemented internet trademark and domain name protection and registration strategies, managed the company’s portfolio of trademarks and domain names, and assisted the General Counsel in administering the corporate Patent Policy. He managed outside counsel for international labor law, patent and litigation issues.

Over the combined 15 years he worked in-house at IBM, Tandem Computers and Texas Instruments, Mr. Kopec negotiated and managed more than $50 million in government contracts, helped close many multi-million dollar deals, developed contracts for strategic relationships, advised inventors and assisted with the preparation and submission of patent disclosures. He repeatedly helped create and implement effective corporate practices, standardized business agreements and licensing practices, and served as a liaison between corporate, legal and specific business units for legal, export control and intellectual property matters.

In Indiana, Mr. Kopec was a partner in a business-oriented general practice, representing and advising individual, corporate and quasi-governmental clients. As Deputy Attorney General, he represented the State of Indiana as chief trial counsel in civil jury trials and at every appellate level from the State Court of Appeals to the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Kopec received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, where he was recognized as a Hoosier Scholar and Notre Dame Scholar. He received his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law and is admitted to practice law in Texas and Indiana.

Bonnie Rodden Gomes

Bonnie Rodden Gomes, Vice President of Business Development for Scarab Consulting, is responsible for overseeing the organization’s strategic business development plans, as well as partner communications and revenue growth. Ms. Rodden Gomes brings 20 years of sales and management experience to Scarab Consulting, including the development and management of direct, indirect, and inside sales teams for multiple startups and growing corporations. She has designed successful, company-specific sales distribution programs from inception, using Solution Selling and Customer Centric Methodology for numerous organizations in the e-discovery, software, and medical products industries.

Ms. Rodden Gomes is a veteran executive of the electronic evidence and information governance industry, having held management positions in sales and business development at RenewData and eMag Solutions. Ms. Rodden Gomes served as vice president of sales and business development while at RenewData, where she was responsible for developing and implementing strategic direct sales and business development plans to generate targeted revenue growth. In this role, she developed strategic partnership opportunities with Symantec, Iron Mountain, and several other companies that provide forensic and e-discovery solutions to law firms and corporations. Her efforts at RenewData resulted in increased sales revenue from $500,000 to $32 million in annual sales during a five year period.

Ms. Rodden Gomes utilized her business development and sales expertise to establish Rodden & Company, a telemarketing, business development, and direct sales solutions services, which provided small organizations and start-ups with in-house, metrics-driven processes and methodologies, enabling them to quickly reach revenue goals. Ms. Rodden Gomes was also previously the Managing Director of Tech Headhunter, an executive and technical recruiting firm and has been in executive and sales positions with numerous software and medical products organizations including Infraworks Corporation, Medic Computer Systems, and Clinical Devices, Inc.  Ms. Rodden holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and attended the MBA program at Bentley College.

Fernando Parra

Fernando Parra, Vice President of Sales for Scarab Consulting, is an expert in electronic discovery matters. He has been in the business of bringing custom solutions to law firm and corporate legal clients for over 16 years, specializing in e-discovery consulting, corporate litigation readiness and data collection, and Rule 26(f) Conference strategy. In addition, Mr. Parra possesses proven experience working with the application of technology inside and outside the litigation marketplace and in managing complex projects across multiple states, locations, and counsels.

Prior to his role with Scarab Consulting, Mr. Parra held General Management positions at RLS Legal Solutions & LIT Group, Inc.  In addition, he has held consultative roles at Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T GIS Division and NCR Corporation where he interfaced with financial applications, high speed imaging and recognition systems.

Mr. Parra has worked extensively with Attenex Patterns eDiscovery Software and has been a preferred technology provider since 2005. Mr. Parra has proven expertise in delivering innovative cost effective solutions and received 2008 “Innovative Consultant” Award from Attenex (FTI) for his efforts in crafting Attenex conceptual reporting for Early Case Assessment.

Mr. Parra is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and attended the Pepperdine School of Business MBA program in California.

Maria Augustine

Maria Augustine, Vice President of Operations at Scarab Consulting, is responsible for quality and assurance of all projects and leads the development of proprietary applications and utilities. She focuses on streamlining day-to-day processes and improving both efficiency and effectiveness while also ensuring legal defensibility. Ms. Augustine began working at Scarab Consulting as the Director of Technology, developing a work flow management tool which is still used today to manage clients, cases, projects and status of current activities.

Ms. Augustine has been in the Litigation Support industry since 1999, beginning her career with Kroll Ontrack as a Programmer supporting the Electronic Evidence division. She worked with the operations team to learn the intricacies of their processes in order to create legally defensible reporting and applications to streamline their work flow. 

Subsequently Ms. Augustine worked for IE Discovery as an Assistant Project Manger and was soon promoted to a Technical Lead position where she was responsible for all highly technical data projects involving complicated and non-standard solutions.
She was promoted to a position to develop a department to assist project managers with custom solutions to improve performance and efficiency and identify issues with large data collections. This “Data Analysis” team was a key component in the development
of customized solutions used with the Equivio software, which won first place in the “Equivio Case Study Contest”. In addition,
the team supported the development of web based applications needed for reviewing document collections requiring multiple
data relationships.

Bob Jordan

Bob Jordan, Controller of Scarab Consulting, is a results-driven, analytical finance professional with more than 20 years management, accounting, financial, and asset experience in numerous industries. As Scarab’s Controller, Mr. Jordan is responsible for implementing operational and financial controls and procedures, debt financing, and budget management functions.

Mr. Jordan was previously with RenewData, an e-discovery and information management organization, where he was responsible for preparation of financial reports, bank reconciliations, sales tax reporting, fixed asset depreciation and tracking, and budgeting, and metrics reporting. Mr. Jordan’s extensive strategic accounting and financial experience also includes various management positions with numerous services and software organizations including Reinforcing Steel Supply and Adams Globalization. His responsibilities have included regulatory agency reporting, investment and cash management, budgeting, profitability analysis reporting,

Mr. Jordan holds a master of science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a bachelor of arts in economics from Gonzaga University.