Derek Fung

I guide products into an AI-powered world with experience, openness, and humility

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Derek Fung

Hello!

I'm a product leader with 15+ years of experience driving enterprise SaaS innovation across AI, data orchestration, and sales/marketing automation. I specialize in building platform products that help organizations unify, activate, and operationalize data across their ecosystems—often in ambiguous, high-growth environments.

I am focused on applied AI product development and helping enterprise teams harness the full scalability and automation potential of agentic AI in their everyday operations.

Experience

Openprise

2018 - Present

San Mateo, CA

Enterprise-scale iPaaS (Integration Platform as-a-Service) that powers data orchestration at scale, integrated with multiple data clouds, data warehouses and CRMs such as Snowflake, Salesforce, Databricks, and Oracle.

Senior Director of Product Management

  • 0-1 Product Creation: Designed and drove a combination of 0-1 Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Sales-Led Growth (SLG) products used by IT and operations
  • Regulated Data Platforms: Developed platform features such as RBAC, least-privilege access patterns, and auditability for SOC-2, GDPR, and CPRA compliance
  • AI Product Development: Drove AI-powered enhancements using Hermes/LLaMA and GPT-OSS for conversation translation, summarization, and categorization

Head of Product Marketing

  • Product Vision Ownership: Owned strategic vision for company's core products to ensure product market fit in a rapidly evolving TAM worth $8B
  • GTM Product Messaging: Owned and oversaw core product messaging, leading to an increase in inbound lead generation by 30%

Head of Sales Engineering

  • Scaled GTM Capabilities: Built Sales Engineering and Sales Operations functions from 0 staff to a team of 5
  • Expand Technical Sales: Led Sales Engineering team to design repeatable process for live product demonstrations that drove revenue growth from <$1M to $12M in ARR

Adobe Marketo

2015 - 2018

San Mateo, CA

Enterprise Workflow Automation Platform that offers interoperability and data orchestration with major external data warehouses and CRM systems.

Principal Product Manager, Platform and Interoperability

  • Strategic Alliance Development: Led business and product development for partnerships with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Informatica, and LeanData
  • Maximized Developer Ease-of-Use: Drove feature development for enhanced API-ready capabilities for Marketo platform
  • Increased ecosystem-sourced revenue through RESTful APIs and turnkey integrations for major CRM vendors

Xignite (now QUODD)

2013 - 2015

San Mateo, CA

API-enabled SaaS Marketplace for financial data products.

Senior Product Manager, API and Data Products

  • Strategic Alliance Building: Launched 0-1 products built out of relationships with major data vendors (FactSet, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters)
  • Data Product Portfolio Optimization: Developed portfolio of RESTful API-ready financial data services optimized for ease of adoption
  • Maximized product profitability through development and optimization of Xignite's API-based data product portfolio

Guidewire Software

2010 - 2013

San Mateo, CA

Leader in the insurance technology space. Guidewire Design Studio is a powerful studio tool allowing users to design complex automated workflows.

Senior Product Manager, Guidewire Design Studio

  • Maximize Product Adoption: Led product enhancement drive to maximize ease of configuration and enable faster onboarding for customers with limited IT capacity
  • Design- and Run-time Workflow Optimization: Optimized design-time process for Guidewire configuration code and run-time code execution for automated workflows
  • Increased customer adoption through shorter time-to-value for entire product investment

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Science

Information Decision Systems (Management Information Systems)

Certifications

Duke University (via Coursera)

Specialization in AI Product Management

Johns Hopkins University (via Coursera)

Specialization in Executive Data Science

DeepLearning.ai (via Coursera)

Machine Learning in Production

HL7 International

HL7 FHIR Foundational Implementer

Expected Q2 2026