Management Team

Adriana Neagu

Co-founder,  CEO / President of Engineering

Adriana Neagu, co-founder of Formotus, currently serves as its CEO and President of Engineering. Adriana is the creator of the Formotus platform, a technology combining the convenience of cloud services and the power of mobile computing. She is a recognized expert with several patents in data applications and XML technologies.

Adriana was tapped by the White House in 2011 to participate in a panel discussion about entrepreneurship and startups broadcast as part of President Obama’s town hall meeting event at Facebook headquarters. In 2007 her work creating the Formotus platform won her the national Technology Innovator of the Year title from the Stevie Award for Women in Business..

Previously Adriana worked at Microsoft, where she was co-inventor of Microsoft Office InfoPath. Before joining Microsoft, Adriana worked in Vienna at the International Atomic Energy Agency on a joint Soviet/American project. She graduated with high honors from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest with a degree in Computer Science, and pursued doctoral studies at the University Vienna.

Joe Verschueren

Co-founder, EVP Business Development

Joe Verschueren, co-founder and former CEO, is now dedicated fully to business development at Formotus including sales, marketing, and carrier relations. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, twice recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. He co-founded ImageX in 1995 with an initial venture capital investment of $3.5M, and during his time there the company raised more than $160M and completed its IPO in 1999. Joe has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry, which he helped pioneer as one of the original members of Seattle’s first cellular company—US WEST NewVector Group (now part of Verizon Wireless).

Glen Furnas

VP User Experience

Glen Furnas strives to improve all aspects of the customer experience at Formotus, from mobile user interfaces to information architecture and customer training. Glen has worn many hats in the mobile technology industry since 1994. He was employee #13 at BSQUARE —a company that grew during his time there to over 500 people. After 7 years at Bsquare he began his own consulting business that brought a combination of technical understanding, design sense and marketing savvy to his clients.  Clients in the mobile space included Datalight, UIEvolution, Intrinsyc, Microvision, Root Metrics, and Microsoft Windows Embedded.

Liliana Sambotin

Director of Software Quality

Liliana Sambotin heads the quality assurance effort at Formotus. Her team is responsible for testing, tracking and verifying all issues in the mobile client software running on a wide range of devices, as well as over a dozen upgrade releases of the server software. She worked previously as SDET at Microsoft on BizTalk, Commerce Server, and graphics and imaging components of Windows XP and Vista. Before that Liliana worked as a software developer for American, Italian, French and Romanian software companies after completing her Masters degree in computer science at Polytechnic University in Bucharest.