Craig Carpenter has seen a few things in the e-discovery industry. Most recently, he was CEO of Fronteo. Before that, he was SVP of sales with Kroll Ontrack. Then it was CMO and COO of AccessData. Plus VP of marketing and general counsel at Recommind. Add in some consulting work for companies like Relativity, and there are few people more equipped to predict the future of e-discovery.

Now, Carpenter is bringing his industry expertise to a new company: X1. Today, the software company announced that Carpenter is becoming its newest CEO, taking over for interim Tom McGovern. In the role, Carpenter will be asked to guide the company in its next phase of growth, as it looks to expand the software’s applications beyond e-discovery into corporate compliance, regulatory, and other purposes.