Colin Rule is a leading expert in online dispute resolution (ODR) and serves as CEO of Mediate.com and ODR.com. He has been at the forefront of the development and advancement of ODR for more than two decades, establishing the field as an important component of modern dispute resolution.

In 2011, Colin co-founded Modria.com, a Silicon Valley-based ODR provider, which was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he served as Vice President of ODR at Tyler Technologies. Prior to founding Modria, Colin served as Director of ODR for eBay and PayPal from 2003 to 2011, where he was instrumental in developing and implementing online dispute resolution systems at a global scale. In 1999, he co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first ODR providers, and served as its CEO and President.

Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business (2002) and co-author of The New Handshake: ODR and the Future of Consumer Protection (2017). He has lectured and taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, UC Law, Pepperdine University, Texas A&M University, Southern Methodist University, UMass-Amherst, and Santa Clara University. His contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous awards, including the American Bar Association’s Frank Sander Award in 2019 and D’Alemberte Raven Award in 2023, as well as the Mary Parker Follett Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution in 2013.

Earlier in his career, Colin worked with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, DC and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995 to 1997.