Hinshaw & Culbertson Leadership

Michelle Michaels is a Chief Marketing Officer at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. She has worked as Regional Marketing Manager at Foley & Lardner LLP, Legal Associate at Michael Pekay P.C., and Marketing Manager - National Programs at Foley & Lardner LLP. Michelle studied at Indiana University Bloomington between 1985 and 1989 and DePaul University College of Law between 1989 and 1992.

Robert Johnson is a Chief Financial Officer at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Tracy Elmblad is a Chief Operating Officer at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP and is based in Greater Chicago Area. She has worked as 2012 Conference Committe Team Coordinator - Desktop & Applications Team at International Legal Technology Association; Chief Information Officer (CIO) at MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP; and Director of Applications, Development, Project Management & Customer Support at Bingham McCutchen LLP. Tracy works or has worked as Conference Vice President (Co-Chair) 2014-2015 at International Legal Technology Association and 2015-2017 Board of Directors at International Legal Technology Association. She attended Boston University and University of Massachusetts, Boston between 1985 and 1992.

Vishal Agnihotri has held operational, consulting and leadership roles over 19 years in enterprise Knowledge Management spanning business research, the trifecta of knowledge technology adoption: implementation, training and communications, knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and social learning. As a practitioner, a consultant and a senior executive, Vishal has helped Big 4 firms, an Am Law 100 firm and Fortune 500 clients unlock the value of their enterprise knowledge. Vishal has recently joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as their Chief Knowledge Officer. Earlier, as Akerman LLP's first Chief Knowledge Officer, she set up the firm's Knowledge Management function and steered the development and implementation of processes and systems to help her rapidly growing firm to sustain a competitive edge and serve its clients well. Previously, as the Americas Financial Services Knowledge leader at EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young), she oversaw the team dedicated to the Americas Financial Services practice to ensure that this highly successful regional practice of 7,000 practitioners was equipped with enabling services, tools and insights. Prior to EY, she was at KPMG where she built a progressive track record of delivering strategic enterprise-level programs with multi-disciplinary global teams while guiding matrixed stakeholders through the associated change. Vishal started her career in Knowledge Management at a boutique research and advisory firm which supported Fortune 500 clients with market perspective that informed and provoked their new product development, new market entry, strategic growth and innovation efforts. Vishal holds an MBA from the University of Leicester. She blogs at idearipples.tumblr.com and has spoken on Knowledge Management at Lex Mundi Roundtables, ILTA Virtual Events, AALL, The Ark Group Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession Conferences, APQC, E2, IABC's Intranet Global Forum, Digital Workplace Group, and the EY Human Capital Conference.