Cataphora, Inc., an industry-leading provider of investigative analytics and review software, today announced the appointment of Steve Downs as chief operating officer. Downs is a seasoned operations executive, with experience in a variety of sectors including technology, legal and non-profit. He will help guide Cataphora through continued sales growth and expansion into new market sectors. Downs joins Cataphora as the company expands its presence in the United States and in Europe.
“I am very impressed by the high value that Cataphora’s ground-breaking technologies deliver to its customers, and the very broad market opportunities they represent,” said Downs. “Cataphora has an impressive track record and I am delighted to join the company at this exciting stage of its growth.”
Downs brings to Cataphora more than 20 years of experience in establishing best practices in administrative operations, including human resource, management information, finance and legal functions. Prior to joining Cataphora, Downs held various management positions at Retail Expansion Network, Inc. and with the Bar Association of San Francisco. Prior to his work with the Bar Association, he was general manager of Real Time Solutions, a provider of warehouse order fulfillment software and systems to major national retail distribution operations. His experience also includes administrative roles at the University of California and Ford Motor Company.
“Steve brings to Cataphora important knowledge and skills from a wide variety of businesses, which he will apply as we further scale our business operations to meet growing demand for our products and services,” said Elizabeth Charnock, CEO of Cataphora. “His role is crucial to ensuring our organization maintains the high levels of professionalism our customers have come to expect and rely on from Cataphora.”
Downs earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in management sciences from Duke University.
About Cataphora
Cataphora Inc. is the creator of a suite of industry-leading products for investigative analytics and electronic evidence review. These provide attorneys, compliance officers and investigators with unprecedented insight into electronic data, revealing fact and behavior patterns, and providing answers to critical questions that were previously unanswerable. Cataphora's solutions are widely used by corporations, private law firms and investigators with document-intensive matters in areas such as white-collar crime, securities, antitrust and intellectual property.
Cataphora software is based on groundbreaking, patented technology that overthrows a long-standing assumption that the individual document is the logical unit of search and information retrieval. Instead, Cataphora’s technology offers the construct of a “discussion” – a logical sequence of dialog among a set of actors, which may span many items, and even different types of items. Applications built on this technology are exceptionally suitable to unraveling the implications of modern electronic communications, with their wide variety of formats and frequently very terse and cryptic messages.
Cataphora is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Washington, DC; and Frankfurt, Germany; a certified reseller in London, England; and a field office in France. For more information, please visit www.cataphora.com.