Aaref A. Hilaly

Who is Aaref A. Hilaly?

Aaref brings extensive technology, entrepreneurial management, and Fortune

500 consulting expertise to his position. Prior to Clearwell, he was

Co-Founder, President and CEO of CenterRun, which he led from inception

in 2000 to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in August 2003. CenterRun

was a leading provider of application provisioning software and today

forms the basis of Sun's data center automation product suite.

Prior to co-founding CenterRun, he worked in corporate and business

development at Excite@Home Networks, which at that time was one of the

largest internet companies. He joined Excite@Home from The Boston Consulting

Group (BCG), a global management consulting company. At BCG, Aaref led

projects advising Fortune 500 companies on a variety of sales, marketing

and product development issues, with particular focus in the software

and telecommunications industries.

Aaref earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with high distinction

as a Baker Scholar. He holds a BA Honor’s degree from Oxford University,

and a Master’s degree from McGill University, where he was awarded

the Arthur Tagge Fellowship.

To learn more about Aaref and his thoughts about eDiscovery and Email Intelligence, visit his blog at http://clearwellsystems.blogspot.com/.