Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers has held a variety of positions including Fractional COO, Business Manager, Global Marketing Manager, Sr Account Executive, and CFO and was previously with How to Manage a Small Law Firm as Programs Operations Manager where they were responsible for creating management and accountability tools for managing the HTM management advisory team. Todd is most proud of helping small businesses that help their communities. Todd is a certified business coach with an MBA and has been advising small businesses since 2013. In their spare time, Todd enjoys spending time with wife and family over great food, especially at Disney World. His other hobbies include creating art with Lego.

Emily Britton

Emily Britton has held a variety of positions including Owning and Operating a 5-state financial services firm and an Arizona marketing company. Emily was most recently with The Leona Group as their Arizona Director of Quality Initiatives where she was responsible for implementing effective systems, driving improvement, developing people, building teams, and designing innovative programs across 29 sites.  Emily is most proud of how she has leveraged her scrappy, supportive style and experience to build effective operational systems across the financial services, legal, education, and marketing industries. Emily uses her Agile and Six Sigma Black Belt trainings and certifications, which sound incredibly cool but are exceptionally nerdy, to guide and engage key firm team members in building and sustaining systems that help law firm owners make their business WORK FOR THEM. In her spare time, she enjoys the Arizona outdoors by gardening, hiking, exploring architecture, and being a low-key foodie on Arizona’s restaurant patios. To recharge, she can be found reading, listening to PPM, traveling, meditating, and contributing to a variety of non-profit boards and committees that benefit children and families.  She also loves supporting her daughter’s club volleyball endeavors.

Clarissa Maldonado

Clarissa has held various positions, including Law Firm Administrator, Manager of Operations and Administrative Services, and Director of Operations. She was previously with Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, L.L.C. as a Law Firm Administrator, where she was responsible for a multi-office team of Attorneys and Legal support staff, securing the Operational Management, Policies and Procedures, Human Resources and Technologies to enrich the culture and support the business. Clarissa is proud of her time working in New York City at one of the largest women-owned legal recruiting firms, where she opened multiple eDiscovery centers nationwide. In her spare time, Clarissa enjoys hot yoga, gardening, and an endless pursuit of finding the best pizza. She also adores spending time with her family in NJ and traveling to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico to visit her parents.

Charles Luna

Charles Luna has held a variety of positions including business owner, and Director of Marketing and Communications, and was previously with Medtronic as a Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist and Campaign Development Advisor where he was responsible for leading the global web optimization and omnichannel campaign development of a Fortune 50 company. Charles is most proud of the dozen-plus years he spent creating and building an agency that specialized in marketing professional services firms. In his spare time, Charles enjoys camping, traveling, hiking with his dog, and sampling Colorado’s amazing varieties of craft beer. Before becoming a marketer, he also had careers as both a cancer researcher and as an architect. Life is full of unexpected twists and turns…

Arnel Ortega

Arnel has held a variety of positions including Attorney, Mediator, and Human Resources Director, and was previously with his own law firm as the Managing Attorney where he was responsible for General Counsel to clients in business matters, including commercial and civil litigation, contracts, federal and state labor and employment laws, and risk management. Arnel is most proud of helping business owners identify and seize the opportunities available to them by holding them accountable to execute on the actions necessary to achieve success. Arnel has been with How to Manage a Small Law Firm for more than 5 years and has held numerous positions, including Senior Fractional CEO, CEO Lead, and Fractional COO, as well as a Crash Course leader, Business Plan Workshop presenter, Bootcamp teacher, and Advanced Business Plan Workshop facilitator. In his spare time, Arnel enjoys Martial Arts, Motorcycles, Traveling, and being his son’s Fencing weapons armorer and coach.

Karli Mcnamee

Karli has held a variety of positions including being an Executive Assistant to C-Suite, Account Manager, and Tier II & III Escalations Specialist. She was previously with Newsletter Pro as the Executive Assistant to the CEO where she was responsible for calendaring, email management, A/P, escalations, partnerships, onboarding, and more.  Karli is most proud of growing her CEO’s non-profit more than 600%, and helping thousands of foster youths to have better lives. Karli has been working as an Executive Assistant for almost a decade and frequently uses the knowledge she gained while completing her Bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre—though she doesn’t use it for anything she got it for! In her spare time, Karli enjoys reading, cooking, singing, and dancing around the house with her 5-year-old daughter. She will also happily build your Ikea furniture for you; just don’t ask her anything about music or movies unless you’re ready to spend a few hours in conversation.