Founded in a Mt. Lebanon home in 2007, bit-x-bit was one of the first in the region to target the growing trend of searching electronically stored information (ESI), which is transforming the way litigation is handled today. In 2008 the company moved to a larger office downtown, near state and federal courts. The company has recently doubled in size to four full-time and four part-time employees and is offering Sfile hosted e-discovery review services.
Joining the brother-sister team of Susan Ardisson, CEO, and Scott Ardisson, President and Chief Forensic Investigator, is Susan’s husband, Joseph Decker, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel, who brings more than 25 years of experience as a business litigator and trial attorney. Decker is a frequent writer and speaker on e-discovery issues and was responsible for creating and developing his law firm’s in-house electronic discovery department. Decker will work part-time while continuing his law practice.
The company has also added Rolanda Mitchell as Forensic Analyst and Hosted E-Discovery Project Manager. Ms. Mitchell will manage bit-x-bit’s review platform powered by Sfile, a hosted e-discovery system that uses the flexible fabric of cloud computing, giving the firm an expanded range of discovery capabilities at a substantial savings to clients. Mitchell formerly served as the Technical Project Manager for the merger between Bank of New York and Mellon Financial.
“Pittsburgh has been the perfect place to start a business,” says Susan. “There wasn’t a lot of competition when we started. It is sort of a new field. People in Pittsburgh like doing business with people in Pittsburgh and that’s worked well for us. For us, hard work and effort have paid off tremendously. “
bit-x-bit success was boosted in 2008 when the startup received an exclusive endorsement from the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA).
Source: Susan Ardisson, bit-x-bit
Writer: Deb Smit
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