Debra Friar is an accomplished executive with broad experience across various industries, including Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Marketing Technology, Commercial Equipment, and SaaS technology. She has extensive enterprise experience, having held key Sales, Marketing, and Product Innovation roles at notable organizations such as Pillsbury, Pepsi, Catalina, Conversant, Quotient Technologies, and Welbilt. Debra possesses expertise in developing innovative decision-making tools through the convergence of disparate, cross-departmental data sets, a critical capability for optimizing Advanced Analytics and AI techniques. An early adopter of generative AI, Debra has integrated AI tools into her startup for 100+ business use cases to achieve significant efficiency gains and minimize burn rate. She earned a BBA & MBA from the University of Wisconsin as well as certifications in Generative AI and Data Science from MIT Professional and AWS.More...