Forsta CEO and leadership

Kyle Ferguson joined Confirmit as CEO in 2020 with over 20 years’ experience in technology, banking and payments industries. Prior to joining Confirmit, Ferguson held the Chief Executive Officer role at Fraedom, a global financial technology company, where he successfully led the company’s sale to Visa Inc. in 2018. Prior to this, he also served as Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director at the company, and previously spent 11 years with American Express. Kyle is a seasoned executive with a track record of developing and leading high performing teams in the SaaS technology space, while supporting these businesses through necessary investment and growth stages.

Experienced product management executive with cross-industry expertise in healthcare and IT. Strong in identifying market needs, identification of growth vectors and creating new systems designs leveraging substantial underlying systems and software technology expertise. Passionate about establishing and scaling product management organizations in a lean or agile environment to lead efforts aimed at business expansion through market and end user research, in conjunction with product, engineering and systems innovation.Specialties: Driving business expansion (early-stage and established companies) through establishment and scaling of a product management organization

Christopher Nagy joined FocusVision as Chief Financial Officer in April 2018. Prior to joining FocusVision, Chris was CFO at Vela Trading, a global leader in enterprise grade market data and trading technologies. Previously Chris led the Finance functions for BlackRock Solutions and Trading & Liquidity Strategies at BlackRock, where he was responsible for all financial planning, strategy and analytics for these business functions. Before joining BlackRock, Chris was Head of Strategic Planning for NYFIX, playing a key role in its 2009 sale to NYSE Euronext. In 2000, Chris was a commercial lead on the founding team of Radianz, where he ultimately served on its management team holding various roles in pricing and commercial management through its sale to BT in 2005. Chris holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Emory University.

Growth leader focused on building high-performing teams, executing growth strategies, and developing products to meet market needs.

Former head of SoftBank Group's operating team overseeing the strategic and global asset portfolios valued at $64B. Portfolio included: Arm, Boston Dynamics, Fetch Robotics, Ola Electric, Lemonade, InMobi, et al.

Former international GM at Medallia, oversaw growth and expansion of ~300 customer programs, led 11 country expansions, and achieved 100% YoY growth and record new logo contributions - all while maintaining highest operational metrics of any geo.

Former CEO of Percepta LLC. Owned P&L and growth across the business globally, including 28 international locations and 2,000+ FTEs.

Former Chief of Staff and Head of Product at TTEC, and General Manager of Humanify (software division, wholly owned by TTEC).

Former consultant with McKinsey & Company: focused on corporate strategy in technology industries, and economic development/infrastructure in emerging markets.

Former physicist with the US Air Force (officer - Captain): led three $1B+ scientific projects.

Undergraduate studies in physics & mathematics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Graduate work at Harvard University in science & technology policy - coursework focused on game theory and statistics.

South Carolina native who calls Charleston home.

Specialties:

-Investment diligence and portfolio monitoring

-Value add support to portfolio companies

-SaaS acceleration, growth, and expansion

-Turn-arounds and company/org restructuring

-Strategic planning with follow-through execution

-Operational efficiencies and process design

-Finance and budgeting