Executive Team

The Frayman Group’s executive leadership team sets the vision and leads the company’s worldwide team to provide the most comprehensive risk management software and consultancy services.

Yuri Frayman – President & CEO

Legal industry visionary Yuri Frayman leads The Frayman Group as President & CEO.

Frayman has over 20 years experience in providing mission critical solutions to the global legal vertical, with each iteration based on pioneering technology. Prior to The Frayman Group, Frayman founded LegalKEY Technologies Inc. (LegalKEY), the leading proactive compliance solution provider to law firms. Under his leadership, LegalKEY assisted over 250 law firms to effectively audit their new business acquisition and matter-related processes, apply best practices, develop and implement supporting technologies, and assist with related training and change management before being acquired by Hummingbird Ltd. (Hummingbird) in 2003. Following the acquisition, Frayman was appointed General Manager and managed the P&L for the legal vertical business at Hummingbird and remained in charge until the acquisition of Hummingbird by Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) in October 2006.

Kandace Donovan – Senior Vice President & General Manager, North America

Kandace Donovan leads the sales management team for Frayman Group in North America.

Donovan has an exemplary record in the legal technology industry with more than 20 years of strategic leadership and business development expertise. Throughout her career, Donovan has consulted with more than 250 law firms about their risk management needs, helped them to select and implement leading-edge solutions to improve their businesses. Her career started at MSI, before moving to LegalKEY where she was the catalytic factor in the LegalKEY drive to rapidly penetrate the North American legal vertical and consolidate its position as solution of choice. Prior to The Frayman Group, Donovan was responsible for global legal sales at Hummingbird. Donovan graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a BA in History.

Robin Mohan – Senior Vice President & General Manager, EMEA

Robin Mohan leads the sales and support teams in the UK and EMEA.

Mohan was a shareholder of Kramer Lee & Associates that was acquired by Hummingbird in 2003. He assumed the position of EMEA Director at Hummingbird where he was responsible for the re-organisation of the EMEA support department into a profitable business unit. By developing and implementing innovative business strategies, Mohan was able to provide business stability and a foundation for substantial future revenue growth. He has a technical background gained through the implementation of leading edge ECM solutions into the legal vertical. His customer focused approach has led to the development of post sales solutions customized to enable firms to maximize the benefits from their investments. Mohan has completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London and has an MSc in Information Systems and Technology from City University, London.

Alp Hug – Senior Vice President Products & Chief Marketing Officer

Alp Hug leads development, marketing and product management teams at Frayman Group.

An industry veteran with over 15 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Alp Hug has spent his professional career innovating, shaping and managing enterprise software products, holding various leadership positions in product management, product marketing, product strategy, marketing, business development, corporate development, corporate strategy and M&A. Hug possesses broad knowledge and deep expertise in the areas of information governance and retention, information management, enterprise content management (ECM), document management, web content management, knowledge management, business intelligence, enterprise portals, team collaboration, e-mail management, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and enterprise records management practices.

Until February 2009, Hug held the position of Senior Vice President, ECM Suite Technology Group at Open Text Corporation, the leading independent Enterprise Content Management vendor in the world. Prior to this role, he served as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing, responsible for product strategy, messaging and positioning of Open Text’s market leading ECM suite portfolio. Prior to joining Open Text in October 2006, Hug spent 11 years at Hummingbird Ltd., a leading enterprise software vendor focused on network connectivity and enterprise content management businesses. In his last position at Hummingbird, he held the position of Vice President, Strategic Business Development, in charge of business development, M&A, product and corporate strategy initiatives, new product direction, and corporate development.

Hug studied Economics in Vienna, Austria and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from York University in Toronto, Canada.

A. Barry Schiffman, Esq. – Senior Vice President & General Counsel

Barry Schiffman is General Counsel at Frayman Group.

Schiffman began his career as an Associate at Bracewell and Giuliani LLP and has also worked for Fulbright and Jaworski LLP. After leaving traditional law firm practice, Schiffman was co-founder of Next Frontier Capital Ltd., an emerging markets private equity and investment advisory firm, where he sourced and structured investments across a variety of sectors in CIS, Africa, and Asia. Schiffman was also co-founder, COO, and General Counsel of Viewdle, Inc., a digital media company utilizing a facial recognition based platform for indexing and searching video. Schiffman has had extensive experience in both legal and business capacities, evaluating and incubating early and mid-stage technology companies including structuring numerous investment rounds, intellectual property development, and commercial deployment. Schiffman is a graduate of Georgetown University, Magna Cum Laude, and Georgetown University Law Center. Schiffman is a member of the State Bar of New York.

Margos Grigoryan – Senior Vice President, Professional Services

Margos Grigoryan leads the consulting and support organizations at Frayman Group.

Grigoryan began his career in legal when he joined LegalKEY Technologies in 1998. Throughout his career, Grigoryan has focused on improving risk management and practice support for law firms. A sought after resource and thought leader in the legal industry, Grigoryan has worked with over 200 law firms managing a multitude of projects ranging from implementation to custom development, working with both IT and business people effectively. Prior to joining The Frayman Group, Grigoryan held various management and leadership positions in support and services organizations at LegalKEY, Hummingbird, Open Text and Baker Robbins.