HG Data Appoints Product Strategy and User Experience Veteran, Faith Chiang, as Vice President of Product

Chiang to enhance HG Data's unparalleled product suite and extend the company's market intelligence offerings through more actionable, adaptive, and accessible applications.

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) October 18, 2016

HG Data, the leader in market intelligence for installed technologies, today announced the appointment of Faith Chiang to vice president of product, responsible for driving the company's product vision, strategy, and roadmap. An accomplished startup veteran with a proven track record building highly successful early-stage products, Chiang will accelerate HG Data's validated traction by developing new industry use cases to scale the company's reach within the mid-market technology sector.

Chiang brings over 15 years of transformational product leadership experience to HG Data, most recently serving as vice president of product at business analytics platform, FirstRain. In this role, Chiang oversaw the strategic development and launch of the Orion platform and architecture, empowering customers to deliver highly targeted, business-critical insights to sales, marketing, and analytic teams within enterprise organizations. Additionally, Chiang was responsible for the company's "mobile-first" strategy and modernized FirstRain's applications and components to meet growing mobile investment and CRM productivity.

"Faith is a sophisticated product strategist with deep knowledge of designing applications that reflect personalized user experiences and buying processes," said Craig Harris, chief executive officer of HG Data. "Her knowledge of the B2B market intelligence industry and track record of building extraordinary user experiences makes her an ideal addition to HG Data's roster of talented professionals."

The announcement follows news of several critical new leadership team hires, including the appointment of fellow Silicon Valley software and engineering expert Robert Fox as chief technology officer, media strategy executive John Connell as vice president of digital, and former Intel veteran Barbara Winters as HG Data's new vice president of marketing.

Prior to FirstRain, Chiang was chief experience officer at Within3, a leading provider of digital collaboration solutions for healthcare professionals. At Progressive Insurance, she was recognized for conceptualizing the interface for the patented and award winning ‘Name Your Price' online policy purchasing tool, which resulted in record-breaking conversion growth. Chiang began her career at Juno Online Services (now United Online), where she played an integral role in the company's shift from a free email service to the second largest Internet Service Provider at the time.

"I've always been fascinated in solving signal-to-noise problems for individual customers," said Chiang. "So much of that discernment is contextual and contingent upon auxiliary information. The quality, depth, and breadth of HG Data's datasets gives us an unparalleled opportunity to help businesses connect the dots within their own workflows, and I am thrilled to join the company at this key inflection point."

Chiang holds a Master's in Business Administration from the Case Western Reserve Weatherhead School of Management and a B.A. in architecture from Yale University.

Learn more about HG Data's competitive intelligence solutions at http://hgdata.com/ and Faith Chiang on the HG Data Blog.

About HG Data

HG Data is the global leader in market intelligence for installed technologies. The world's largest technology companies, the fastest-growing start-ups, and some of the most innovative OEM partners achieve an unfair advantage by using HG Data in building market a nalysis, competitive displacement, predictive modeling, marketing campaigns, and client retention initiatives. Every day, HG Data indexes billions of unstructured documents across the open Internet, the archived Web and offline resources to produce a detailed, accurate census of B2B technology installations in use at companies globally. Founded in 2010, the company is based in Santa Barbara, CA. Learn more at http://hgdata.com/.

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