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Research Directors
Dorian J. Cougias
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Dorian J. Cougias is the founder and Lead Analyst of Network Frontiers, a company that focuses on systems continuity, regulatory compliance, and IT infrastructure consulting, training, and publishing.
Over the last fourteen years, Dorian has overseen the establishment, sale, and re-launch of Network Frontiers, has served as CIO of two of the leading Ad Agencies in the world, and has served as CEO of an international software company. He has written and spoken extensively on all matters of information technology, has become a leading expert witness, and has won numerous writing and speaking awards.
He is also an Adjunct Professor of Technology, lecturing and serving on the board of advisers for the University of Delaware; College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy.
Dorian has authored hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including the award-winning Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center, and most recently the Unified Compliance Series.
As the primary architect of the Unified Compliance Framework, Dorian and his research partner, Marcelo Halpern of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, have created the first independent initiative to exclusively support IT compliance management. By focusing on commonalities across regulations, standards-based development, and simplified architectures, the UCF supports a strategic approach to IT compliance that reduces cost, limits liability, and leverages the value of compliance-related technologies and services across the enterprise.
Dorian and his team continue to consult to clients with significant data management requirements. He works extensively with application and hardware developers such as NetIQ, CommVault, Symantec, Computer Associates, LXI, Scalable, Quantum, and SonicWall.
Dorian also serves as an adviser, research fellow, or working group member to the Financial Technology Forum, IT Compliance Institute, NetFocus, Hospitality Law, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals.
Marcelo Halpern
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Marcelo Halpern, a partner in the Chicago office, is Chair of the firm's Global Technology Transactions Practice Group.
Marcelo has provided representation and advice to global "Fortune 100" companies, start-up and emerging growth companies, domestic and foreign governments, as well as traditional Chicago and Midwest based companies. His experience includes structuring and negotiating technology-based strategic alliances and joint ventures; domestic and international outsourcing transactions; internet exchanges and marketplaces; software, database and content licensing; counseling on digital strategy concerns including internet security, data acquisition, and privacy issues; ISP, ASP, hosting, and software services agreements; internet advertising and sponsorship agreements; technology development and co-development transactions; ERP implementation transactions; private labeling, co-branding, and other marketing and distribution strategies; venture capital investments; and mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies or intellectual property assets. Marcelo also provides general corporate representation to software, consulting, internet, ecommerce and technology companies.
Mr. Halpern has been recognized in Chambers' USA Guide to Leading Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, and in Illinois Leading Lawyers Network. He currently serves on the Board of Editors for The Internet Newsletter and for The E-Commerce Law Report and formerly served on the Board of Directors, and as Secretary and Treasurer for the MPEG-4 Industry Forum, a nonprofit international organization dedicated to the promotion of technological standards in digital media. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Law at The John Marshall Law School in both its JD and LLM programs. Marcelo is a member of the American Bar Association (Section of Science and Technology), the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association (Computer Law Committee), and the Computer Law Association. Marcelo also serves on the firm's also serves on the firm's Diversity Scholars Program Committee and Technology Committee.
Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Marcelo was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Gordon & Glickson LLC, where he led that firm's internet and e-commerce practice group. Prior to attending graduate school, Marcelo served as vice president of a software development and consulting firm and worked as a software systems developer and manager.
Education
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1992
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Associate Editor, Columbia Business Law Review
M.B.A., Columbia University Graduate School of Business, 1992
Beta Gamma Sigma
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1985
Management
Craig Isaacs
Craig Isaacs is CEO of Network Frontiers and is responsible for making the Unified Compliance Framework the cornerstone of IT compliance. Prior to joining Network Frontiers, Craig was president of Neon Software through their acquisition by SolarWinds. Craig was responsible for shepherding Neon's award-winning LANsurveyor software into the market and securing its place as the number one selling automated network documentation tool with Microsoft's release of LANsurveyor for Microsoft Office Visio.
Prior to Neon Software, Craig spent 10 years as vice president, sales and marketing, for Dantz Development Corporation (now a division of EMC). During his tenure at Dantz, the organization achieved greater than 90% market share for Retrospect in the Macintosh market and released Retrospect for Windows with OEM agreements from key hardware vendors, including Sony and Maxtor.
Prior to joining Neon Software, Craig held international sales, strategic marketing, and product management positions at a number of computer software companies, including UNIX 4GL/RDBMS vendor Unify Corporation.
Craig received a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.