Our Team
Our management team includes a mass tort executive with over 18 years of mass tort experience who has co-founded a successful mass tort law firm; a data scientist who studied statistics and data mining as a graduate student at Harvard University; a medical coding professional with over 20 years of experience and four medical coding certifications; an IT and AI architect with more than 30 years of experience; and an information technology professional who speaks at national conferences and has co-authored two technical books published by Microsoft Press.
Meet the Paragon Analytics Team

James Mitchell
CEO, Senior Mass Tort Executive and Senior Data ScientistJames has over 18 years of mass tort experience. He entered the industry as a lead originator for mass tort law firms, and then he migrated to founding a law firm that originated cases and co-counseled these cases with other law firms. He then co-founded a successful mass tort law firm which processed its own cases.

W. Sean Harrison
Senior Medical Data Scientist and Co-Chief Technology Officer
Sean is a highly accomplished CTO and Enterprise Architect specializing in healthcare IT infrastructure, medical big data, and fiduciary automation

Daniel L. Stolts II
Co-Chief Technology OfficerDan is a nationally recognized IT executive with over 32 years of experience. He has spoken at AngelBeat as well as dozens of Microsoft national conferences, including TechReady, TechNet Events, and Ignite, as well as numerous Microsoft product launches.

Lisa Whitlock
Clinical DirectorLisa brings over 27 years of expertise in medical billing, coding, and compliance. With a deep understanding of ICD-9/10, CPT, HCPCS, NDC, and other coding frameworks, she has built a career dedicated to ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strategic optimization in medical coding and reimbursement.

Fuad Lawal
V.P., EngineeringFuad has over 15 years of IT experience, as a software engineer, technical lead, architect, and project manager. He is highly experienced in both Microsoft .Net (C#) and open source technologies (in particular, Scala, Java and Python).

Richard Shoemake
Senior AI Architect / EngineerRichard has over 30 years of IT experience, including architecture, J2EE, messaging, and Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). He has substantial experience in artificial intelligence (“AI”), particularly in generative AI, large language models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (“RAG”), and Tensor Flow 2.