Filipino American attorney known as the founder and former CEO of CS Disco.
Kiwi Camara (born June 16, 1984), also known as K.A.D. Camara, represented defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset in the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States brought by major record labels to be tried by a jury.
In September 2023, Camara abruptly resigned from CS Disco leaving $100 million in stock options unused. The resignation followed accusations of improper sexual behavior.
Kiwi Alejandro Danao Camara was born in Manila, Philippines, to physicians Enrico Camara and Teresa Danao.
At age one, his family moved to Cleveland, where he later attended the Jewish school Ratner Academy. In 1990, his family relocated to Honolulu, and Camara completed his primary education at the Punahou School. He wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age 11, which was published in the Hawai’i Journal of Medicine.
At 16, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science summa cum laude from Hawaii Pacific University (HPU). He completed the program in two years and was recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance.
In 2001, Camara enrolled in Harvard Law School at the age of 17. When he earned his Juris Doctor in 2004 at age 19, Camara became the youngest graduate of Harvard Law School.
Camara founded the legal technology company CS Disco in Houston in 2013, and relocated the company’s headquarters to Austin, Texas, in 2018. CS Disco went public on the NYSE under the ticker LAW in 2021 at a market cap of almost $2 billion. On September 11, 2023, it was announced that Camara had resigned as CEO and Board Director.
Kiwi Camara reportedly left DISCO under duress, after being accused of a pattern of sexual harassment and retaliation against female employees.
