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About Matthew

Matthew Wright is the founder & CEO of Specright, the first cloud-based platform for Specification Management. Specright has been recognized by Fast Company’s prestigious Most Innovative Companies list, named a Gartner Cool Vendor, and as one of the Top Places to Work by the OC Register and Built in LA. Wright is also a published author and his book, “The Evolution of Products and Packaging,”was named to the Amazon Hot New Release List for Industrial Relations Business and has a five star rating. 

Prior to founding Specright, Wright spent more than 25 years in the packaging industry, holding leadership positions at International Paper, Temple Inland, and rightPAQ — a packaging company he co-founded. He has also been involved in leading multiple M&A deals in the packaging industry, currently sits on the MSU School of Packaging and Industry Advisory Board and previously served on the Packaging Advisory Board at Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo.

About Laura

Laura has spent her career at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. She currently leads marketing and inside sales at Specright, a SaaS company that created the first purpose-built platform form specification management and as a result created a new category of enterprise software. In her role, she works with our Fortune 100 customers to help reminagine their supply chains using data as the center of everything they do.

Prior to Specright, Laura led advertising and analytics at GE Digital, GE’s Industrial Internet software business that pioneered the Industrial Internet of Things category. At GE, she championed an initiative to implement a best-in-class analytics program across product, marketing and customer experience teams. She also chaired live broadcasts with business leaders and analysts in the manufacturing space about digital transformation. 

Before that, Laura was a consultant at Deloitte Digital working in enterprise digital transformation, where she helped clients design and deploy eCommerce experiences, develop revenue-driving mobile apps, and reimagine their global digital marketing strategy using technology.

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About Ayman

Ayman is Chief Technology Officer at Specright, where he leads the product and engineering teams. Ayman started his career with the Microsoft Developer Division product groups where he spent over 15 years. He was the Group Program Manager for the Visual C++ team at Microsoft till early 2016. Ayman’s team in Microsoft was responsible for delivering the compilers, libraries, runtimes and IDE that enabled developers to create great native applications using Visual Studio. Through those years, he participated in shipping a wide range of world-class products starting with the various versions of Visual Studio to the platform tooling for Windows, Xbox, MS Office, SQL., etc. 

He then joined HireRight, the world leader in the background screening market, where he was the Chief Technology Officer and part of the executive team who drove the company's successful exit and its acquisition by a major private equity. Just before joining Specright, Ayman spent some time in Amazon’s core e-commerce platform team. 

Ayman brings executive level experience that focuses on strategy setting and team growth. Prior to moving to the US, Ayman spent a year in Newcastle, Australia where he earned his Master degree in Software Engineering. In Addition, He holds a BSc. in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo. He currently lives in Irvine, CA with his wife and two daughters.

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Darin Wolter oversees worldwide sales and customer success with a focus on creating long-term, impactful relationships with Specright’s customers and partners. While overseeing global revenue growth and retention initiatives, his role ensures that we continue to provide exceptional experiences, maximize value to our customers and that our sales approach evolves as Specright grows.

Wolter has over 25 years sales leadership experience introducing disruptive technologies across a variety of industries including Financial Services, Media, and Marketing SaaS solutions. Prior to joining Specright, Darin oversaw revenue at WebOps category creator Pantheon and lead global sales teams at: Sysomos (acquired by Meltwater), Marketwired (acquired by NASDAQ) and Streetfusion (acquired by CCBN).  

Darin holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Miami of Ohio University.

About Kathryn

Kathryn Furgal is SVP of Finance at Specright. She is an active CPA with close to fifteen years of experience in Finance and Accounting. Kathryn began her career in public accounting but has spent roughly 10 years building and scaling startups. Prior to Specright Kathryn was the VP of Finance at CrowdRise and oversaw the Finance, Accounting, Legal and Human Resources divisions of the Company. During her tenure as VP of Finance for CrowdRise, the Company successfully obtained Series Seed and Series A funding to be eventually acquired by GoFundMe in 2017. After acquisition, Kathryn stayed on at GoFundMe as a key employee and to help create and grow the GoFundMe Enterprise SaaS product for Charities. Kathryn holds a Masters Degree in Accounting and graduated cum laude with both her Masters and Bachelor’s degrees from DePaul University in Chicago. She currently lives in Aliso Viejo, CA with her husband and son.