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Sara Faatz leads the technology community relations team at Progress. With more than 20 years in the software development space, she has spent the majority of her career building community, producing events, forging partnerships, and creating content and marketing programs from the ground up. She is a mom, a wife, and a woman in tech who is a passionate advocate for equality and diversity.
Adam Famularo
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Adam Famularo is a visionary business leader who is dedicated to customer and partner success, building world-class teams, and delivering great returns for shareholders and investors. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Adam served as chief executive officer at erwin Inc., recently acquired by Quest; he also served in executive roles at Verizon and CA Technologies. Adam is a frequent contributor to thought leadership publications and serves on the National Advisory Council for Donorschoose.org, a charity focused on helping children succeed in the classroom. He is a graduate of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from Dowling College and a bachelor’s degree in business economics from SUNY Oneonta.
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Frank Fawzi is the president and chief executive officer at IntelePeer, where he has been a guiding force in driving the company’s growth and achieving its mission to become a dominant force in the AI-driven Communications Automation Platforms market. Before taking the helm at IntelePeer, Frank founded and grew CommTech Corporation between 1990 and 2001 to be an early leader in the communications software sector before selling the company to ADC, a leading provider of broadband solutions for the telecommunications industry, for $178 million. Frank received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Management from Stevens Institute of Technology and completed the Wharton Executive Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Anne Fernandez is the instructor manager for Web Age Solutions powered by Axcel Learning, an IT training company serving large-scale enterprise clients. She has over 10 years of experience in the industry and focuses on managing trainers, writing content and managing various marketing initiatives.
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Mike Finley is an NLP industry veteran and AnswerRocket CTO/co-Founder
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James Fisher is the Chief Strategy Officer at Qlik. As Chief Strategy Officer, James oversees Qlik’s Corporate Strategy including Qlik's vision; strategic planning; market development and intelligence; corporate development and M&A activity; and Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility. Prior to becoming Chief Strategy Officer, James first served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and most recently as Chief Product Officer.
James has two decades of experience in global software and consulting businesses focusing on analytics, performance management, finance, and mobile solutions. Prior to joining Qlik, he ran product marketing for analytics, mobile and finance solutions at SAP. He also previously held various marketing and consulting roles at BusinessObjects, Cartesis and PwC.
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Russell Fishman is the Sr. Director of Solutions Product Management at NetApp, leading their Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics solutions businesses. In addition, he heads up the strategy, roadmaps, execution, and associated GTM for solutions areas including hybrid cloud virtualization, modern workloads, and enterprise databases. Prior to his current role, and during his nine years at NetApp, Russell led NetApp's Converged Systems Product Management group. His Converged Solutions innovation portfolio included HCI built-on solutions, joint offerings with Fujitsu, manageability platforms, and GTM programs. With over 25 years of industry experience, he has a track record of developing, launching, driving, managing, and executing market changing product, solutions, and services portfolios, in roles with industry segment leaders Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Electronic Data Systems (EDS). He holds a bachelor’s with honors in Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. Russell currently resides in Stamford, CT, with his wife, Jenny and their children, Harrison and Gemma.
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Scott Francis, Technology Evangelist at PFU America, Inc., brings more than 30 years of document imaging expertise to his position where he’s responsible for evangelizing Ricoh’s industry leading scanner technology. With over thirty years of experience in the enterprise content management industry, he frequently provides thought leadership on document scanning use cases and best practices in addition to the overall benefits of digital transformation solutions.
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Edward Funnekotter serves as the Chief Architect and AI Officer at Solace. Leading the architecture teams for both Cloud and Event Broker products, he also leads the company’s strategic direction for AI integration within products and internal tools. In 2004, Edward began his journey with Solace as an FPGA architect. He later transitioned into management and led the Core Product Development team for several years before ascending to his present position.
Beginning his professional journey at Newbridge Networks, Edward took on the role of an embedded software developer after earning his Electrical Engineering degree from Queen’s University. After his tenure at Newbridge Networks, he embraced an ASIC architecture position at a Californian Internet Routing chipset firm. There, he successfully architected and designed multiple high-speed network processors and queuing chips.
