Chris Cartrett

Chief Executive Officer ImageTrend

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Chris Cartrett is Chief Executive Officer of ImageTrend, the Eagan, Minnesota company that makes software and AI-driven analytics for emergency medical services, fire departments, hospitals and public health agencies. ImageTrend announced his appointment on 14 July 2026, succeeding Patrick Sheahan, with a start date of 3 August. The move took him out of legal technology after 12 years at Aderant, the law firm business management software company owned by Roper Technologies. He joined Aderant in 2014 to run strategy and growth and was its president and CEO by the time he left. At ImageTrend his stated brief is to strengthen customer relationships and speed up the company’s work on an AI-powered intelligence platform.

Career Highlights

• Named Chief Executive Officer of ImageTrend in July 2026, with a start date of 3 August 2026, succeeding Patrick Sheahan.
• President and CEO of Aderant until stepping down effective 1 August 2026, having become president in 2021 and CEO in 2022.
• Joined Aderant in 2014 from Thomson Reuters as senior vice president of strategy and growth and was promoted to executive vice president in 2017.
• At Aderant, pushed a cloud-first transformation, generative AI across the product suite and a renewed emphasis on customer service; the company reported record financial performance in 2024.

Professional Journey

Cartrett joined Aderant in 2014 from Thomson Reuters as senior vice president of strategy and growth. Aderant, based in Atlanta, builds business management and practice-of-law software used by many of the world’s largest law firms. He was promoted to executive vice president in 2017, became president in 2021, and succeeded Deane Price as chief executive in 2022.

LawSites, the legal technology publication, summarised his time as CEO around three priorities: moving Aderant’s products to the cloud, building generative AI into the product suite, and strengthening customer service. In his own words on leaving, “It has been the privilege of my career to serve as president and CEO of Aderant.”

On 14 July 2026 Aderant announced that he would step down effective 1 August, and ImageTrend announced him as its next chief executive on the same day. The move takes him into a different market. ImageTrend’s customers are emergency response, healthcare and public safety organisations. Its 2026 launches include Carelytics, which shares data between hospitals and EMS agencies; AI Assist, a set of AI tools for documentation and quality review; and a unified analytics platform with natural-language queries. The company says it has more than doubled its revenue over the past few years. Chairman Ryan Harper cited Cartrett’s experience in AI and product innovation as the reason for the appointment. ImageTrend said he would join on 3 August 2026, focused on customer relationships and on speeding up its AI-powered intelligence platform.

Deane Price, his predecessor as Aderant’s CEO, returned to lead that company on an interim basis while it searches for a permanent chief executive.

Education

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