June 12, 2026
Company
Ken Crutchfield Joins Paximal as Advisor
Paximal has added Ken Crutchfield, Founder and CEO of Spring Forward Consulting, as an advisor. Ken spent six years as Vice President and General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US, and before that ran Bloomberg Tax Technology as Senior VP and General Manager, including the launch of its Advantage SaaS platform. His career spans P&L leadership at Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Bloomberg BNA, and he serves on the TLTF Summit Advisory Board.

That is forty years inside the companies that decide how legal professionals buy software, and it is exactly the experience Paximal needs as Patent Flow moves from early adopters into firm-wide and corporate programs. Ken will advise on go-to-market, partnerships and the company’s strategic path.
“Ken has built and run the businesses that legal technology has to earn its way into,” said Ian Schick, Co-founder and CEO. “He knows what it takes for a new category to become standard, and he’s generous with it.”
