Your Best Friend & Expert Negotiator: A Guide to Training Your Contract Review AI

Brett K. Shawn is based in New York, joined Warburg Pincus in 2015 and focuses on legal matters relating to the Firm’s investing activities.

Prior to joining the Firm, he was an Attorney focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Law Matters, and Corporate Governance at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Shawn worked in the Asset Backed Securities Group at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Shawn is a member of the New York Bar. He received a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia College and a J.D., magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.

Jerry Levine is Chief Evangelist and General Counsel, Americas, at ContractPodAi. Jerry serves as an advisor to customers and the internal client voice, helping to guide global client success and shape overall product vision.

As a former global general counsel and Corporate Secretary at Amelia (IPsoft) - and a ContractPodAi customer, himself - he successfully implemented ContractPodAi within IPsoft’s legal department. Jerry also held leadership and consulting positions at both publicly and privately held companies, including Axiom and LexisNexis. He also founded a start-up focused law firm. As a leader in legal design thinking, he has been committed to helping legal professionals become “awesome lawyers” and strategic organizational leads - to drive results and increase market share for businesses.

Jerry holds a B.S. in Marketing and Japanese from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. with Honors from Rutgers Law School. He is currently based in New York City.

Oliver Round is Managing Counsel & Director and Product Owner of Contract Lifecycle Management at BNY Mellon, where he advises the enterprise on leveraging legal technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, contract analytics, contract generation and contract life-cycle solutions.

Mr. Round is counsel to the firm's artificial intelligent legal agreement repository and contract analytics platform as well as to numerous enterprise regulatory programs. In addition, he focuses on strategically enhancing end-to-end business-as-usual process automation, firm-wide contract lifecycle management implementation and designing artificial intelligence proof-of-concepts.

Mr. Round is an alumnus of both Forham Law School and Lafayette College.