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Carla Dearing is head of product at FlexWage Solutions.

Sam Meenasian is the operations director of USA Business Insurance and BISU Insurance and an expert in commercial lines insurance products. With more than 10 years of experience and knowledge in the commercial insurance industry, he shares his insights to educate the business community.

Syed A. Fazal is vice president, Process Improvement and Project Management at JPMorgan Chase. His expertise is in identifying, developing and implementing technology and operation strategies to drive business growth, improve performance and profitability. For more information, contact Syedafazal786@gmail.com.

John Prisco is the chief executive officer and president of Quantum Xchange, provider of the first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) dark fiber network in the U.S. His 30-year career and depth of experience in telecommunications, cybersecurity and quantum physics have led John to a pivotal moment in the emerging era of quantum computing and the future of encryption. Follow the company’s journey at quantumxc.com.

Barry Zane is vice president of engineering at Cambridge Semantics. He brings substantial development experience and industry expertise in building large-scale products for data analysis.

Prior to Cambridge Semantics, Zane was co-founder and CEO of SPARQL City where he served as vice president of technology, whose high performance scalable graph database technology has been acquired by Cambridge Semantics and integrated within its Smart Data Lake and other offerings.

Previously, Zane was co-founder and CTO of Paraccel, a high performance scalable relational database system which provides the basis for Amazon Redshift. Paraccel was acquired by Actian Corporation as the Matrix product line. He was a co-founder and vice president of technology and architecture at Netezza, which after a successful IPO, was acquired by IBM. Before Netezza, Barry was CTO of Applix, Inc. Applix was also later acquired by IBM.

Barry began his career at Prime Computer, as a hardware engineer and ultimately various roles in software development and management. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gijsbert Jassen van Doorn is technology evangelist at Zerto.

Henry Pooley is chief commercial officer at Fraedom.

As a solution consultant, Scott Silver works closely with LeaseAccelerator’s customers to map their accounting strategies and leasing practices to software solutions. Having run his own lease audit consulting firm for 15 years, Scott is nationally recognized for his expertise in conducting real estate lease audits on behalf of office, retail, and industrial tenants. Prior to joining LeaseAccelerator, Scott held portfolio management, lease consulting, and property controller roles at companies including CBRE, Deloitte and JLL.

Andrew Hogan is a senior analyst serving customer experience professionals. He focuses on experience design — specifically user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design for websites, apps, messaging, and digital-physical interactions. He researches the future of experience design, identifies trends and patterns, analyzes best practices, and examines which experience design services firms and agencies are best suited to help and how.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Andrew was associate director of digital strategy at agency R2C Group, working with clients on site, social, CRM, and paid acquisition efforts.

Before R2C Group, Andrew was a senior strategist at digital and innovation agency T3. There, he guided strategy on apps, social efforts, CRM programs, and site and product prototypes. He also led the agency’s research into mobile's effect on consumer expectations and its connection to customer experience.

Education

Andrew holds a BBA in marketing from Texas State University.

Jennifer Kurtz is chief technology officer of Vertex.