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Chief Scientist, Chief Technology Officer, Orcatec
•28 Years Research and Technology Experience
•Dolphin Search, University of Hawaii
Co-founder of OrcaTec LLC (CA) and the father of Concept Search. Before starting
OrcaTec, Dr. Roitblat was Chief Scientist and a co-founder of DolphinSearch, as
well as an award-winning Professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii. He
has been granted four patents and has others pending on concept search
technology. Dr. Roitblat is widely recognized as an expert in search and retrieval
technology, particularly in the area of eDiscovery.
He received his BA Degree from Reed College in Portland, OR and his Ph.D. in
Psychology from The University of California-Berkeley. In addition to his scientific
work, Dr. Roitblat has been writing extensively about the problems of dealing with
massive amounts of electronic data and the emerging standards for dealing with
those problems. He has been a member of the Sedona Working Group on
Electronic Document Retention and Production, on the Advisory Board of the
Georgetown Legal Center Advanced eDiscovery Institute, and a member of the
2011-2013 Program Committees of the Georgetown Legal Center Advanced
eDiscovery Institute.
He is a co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Institute and a member of the
Board of Governors of the Organization of Legal Professionals. Dr. Roitblat is a
frequent speaker on eDiscovery, particularly concerning search, categorization,
predictive coding, and quality assurance.

About the Author
Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D.