Our Leadership Team
Success Through sophistication
The Team
Leadership
Executive
Chief Executive Officer
Harris Kay, Esq.
Harris Kay has nearly thirty years' experience counseling individual and institutional clients in a variety of legal matters. Licensed in Illinois, New York, and Virginia, Harris has served as a partner and has held management roles at several national and international law firms. His law practice involves representing businesses and members of the financial services industry in a variety of formation, compliance, investigation, enforcement and litigation matters.
Harris has represented clients in a variety of matters, ranging from day-to-day business and compliance issues to sophisticated transactions and technology-driven complex litigation matters. His leadership roles in both law firms and in the business sector have afforded him a unique perspective on the management and operational challenges and opportunities that these entities face.
Harris received his BA from the College of William & Mary and his JD from the University of Richmond School of Law. He is a published author on numerous subjects and a frequent speaker at financial services industry seminars. He has served on several for-profit and nonprofit boards, and is currently a board member of The Night Ministry, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization serving the unhoused community, and of his local little league. Harris and his wife, Reatha, live in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago with their son and daughter.
Chief Operations Officer
Michael Corliss, Esq.
Michael Corliss is Donblas' Chief Operating Officer. Mike began his legal career on the Legal Technology team at Guggenheim Partners, serving as a crucial translator between legal professionals and technologists to implement new technologies, and developing the concepts that would become the foundation of Donblas AI. Since leaving Guggenheim, Mike has worked with technology startups, delivering legal strategy and operations, and intelligence analysis.
Mike's work at the intersection of law and technology traces its roots into law school at the University of Illinois, as a Google Policy Fellow and intern with the FCC's Satellite Division; and graduate school at Georgetown University, focusing on technology's impact on privacy. He earned his BA in philosophy from Pitzer College, specializing in philosophy of mind.
Mike lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children.
Technology & AI
Head of Machine Learning
Andrew Nelson, Ph.D.
Dr. Andrew Nelson is a physicist turned machine learning engineer with over a decade of experience turning complex data into real-world solutions. His research background spans molecular biophysics, neuroscience, and neurobiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Maine, where he studied the molecular foundations of consciousness and neurodegeneration.
For more than 12 years, Andrew has applied AI and machine learning to diverse challenges, ranging from physics-based simulations to real-time decision systems for high-speed robotics. His work includes published research on developing AI agents using convolutional neural networks for computer vision.
As a technical leader, Andrew has led teams of engineers and researchers. Most recently, he served as CTO of Sandbox Wealth, a fintech company modernizing wealth management workflows. He has also cofounded multiple startups, combining deep technical expertise with a practical understanding of how to build and scale technology.
Today, Andrew serves as Head of Machine Learning at Donblas.AI, where he leads the development of advanced AI systems that support data-driven decision making in the legal industry. He also leads Daleego, a consulting practice that helps organizations design and implement AI strategies that deliver measurable results. His strength lies in translating complex technical ideas into actionable projects that drive business impact.
Natural Language Processing Engineer
Brant Kay
Brant Kay has nearly 20 years experience as a software developer for the world's largest privately held software company, SAS Institute. Brant specializes in natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence, and enjoys collaborating with subject matter experts within different linguistic and business domains. He was a key contributor to the development of the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB), a collection of data quality functions that are localized to support over 33 languages. Brant was also one of three developers who built the business logic behind SAS's Information Catalog's Discovery Agent, an automated dataset profiling tool that gathers data metrics that are fundamental to the data governance process. He has also served several terms as an internal career mentor and has led group mentorship programs.
Brant holds a patent with two co-authors on a method for classifying datasets according to a hierarchical taxonomy: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for taxonomy-based classification of unlabeled structured datasets, US Patent #: US11841851B1.
Brant received his BA in Linguistics and Psychology from the University of Virginia, and his Master's in Computational Linguistics from the University of New Mexico. He lives in Durham, NC and is an avid basketball player and musician.
Head of Systems Engineering
Blanford Robinson
Blanford comes with decades of experience in technologies such as Perl and Visual Basic to open source ecosystem governance. He specializes in systems optimization and evergreening. He comes to us with experience in financial services, legal services public/private sector consulting and e-commerce, to name a few.
Advisory
David Milstein, Esq.
Founding Chief Technology Officer & Member, Advisory Board
David Milstein served as Donblas's founding Chief Technology Officer, and spearheaded the development of the systems that power Donblas's cutting-edge technology. He continues to work with Donblas as a member of its Advisory Board.
A pioneer in the world of Legal Technology, David is both a technologist and legal professional and brings a unique blend of technical expertise and legal acumen to complex business challenges.
For seven years Dave served as a Managing Director, as Head of Legal Technology, and as Chief Privacy Officer at Guggenheim Investments, a global asset management company with over $230B of AUM. At Guggenheim, Mr. Milstein led technology initiatives that streamlined and modernized legal operations across the organization. David built and led a team of lawyer-technologists—responsible for researching, selecting, and implementing enterprise-level solutions including contract lifecycle management systems, e-Billing platforms, and legal workflow technologies. His strategic approach to legal technology included working with the tools that were available, developing connectors to integrate siloed systems, and standardizing metadata frameworks for firm-wide document management systems, creating structured data capture for various contract types. Most importantly, the team pioneered utilizing AI to derive insights from various types of contracts.
David's career foundation was built during his 15-year tenure with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, where he served as an IT Specialist, software developer, and analyst with primary focus on Bankruptcy Courts. He was the lead data architect for the internal-use API of the Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems.