FTI Consulting, Inc. announced that the firm's Technology segment has appointed Meredith Brown and Wafik Guirgis as Senior Managing Directors and global leaders in its Corporate Legal Operations practice. Brown is an expert in advising legal departments on their digital journeys to optimize experience and transform the legal function. She works closely with clients to enhance service delivery to legal department partners, increase productivity and drive revenue generation opportunities through innovative approaches leveraging design-thinking principles and agile methodologies.

She has a proven track record of devising and implementing end-to-end digital transformation solutions incorporating strategy, technology, people and process improvement. Prior to FTI Technology, Brown held legal operations and law department management consulting roles at UnitedLex, Consilio and Huron Consulting Group. Guirgis was an early leader in the discipline of law department management and has spent more than two decades helping corporate clients improve legal operations by developing long-term strategic plans, evaluating technology and leading large-scale and complex solution implementations.

He works with general counsel and legal operations leaders to best capitalize on the transformative aspects of technology implementations by helping set the stage for change and effective governance before, during and after implementation. He has helped his clients optimize and automate business processes, structure effective program governance and plan for and execute on change management approaches to drive adoption. He also specializes in how to best structure data across legal and enterprise solutions while using that data to inform decisions and compellingly support the law department's value story.

Prior to joining FTI Technology, Guirgis was a managing director in the legal business solutions practice at PwC. He has also held legal operations and leadership roles at HBR Consulting, Huron Consulting Group, Deloitte and Merrill Lynch.