Fingerpaint Group Names Sarah Cherng as Chief Technology & Product Officer Role

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CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fingerpaint Group today announced the appointment of Sarah Cherng, PhD, MPH, as Chief Technology & Product Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Bill McEllen, Cherng brings over 20 years of enterprise data science and AI/machine learning (ML) leadership across healthcare, pharmaceutical, and consumer sectors to an organization already committed to human-led, AI-enabled ways of working.

Most recently, Cherng served as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Aura, where she led the engineering and AI organization through a successful liquidity event, building a centralized platform that integrated ML, large language models (LLMs), and agentic frameworks into customer-facing products. Prior to Aura, she delivered $200M+ in business value at the Estée Lauder Companies, where she led the Data Science and Advanced Analytics team in building out an enterprise data platform and generating ML-driven insights to support all brands and functions globally. She also led strategic data science and analytics transformation planning for a 70+ person division, driving the macro-level reorganization of the broader technology group. At Merck, she directed Global Oncology Data and Analytics in support of a $16B+ revenue oncology portfolio. Earlier, at Flatiron Health, she led a team of ML engineers, biostatisticians, and quantitative scientists focused on cancer endpoint research for life sciences partners.

“She translates complex data science and AI into tangible business value and has a proven track record of scaling high-performing organizations,” said Bill McEllen, CEO of Fingerpaint Group. “Sarah is exactly the leader to help us push our work further.”

In her new role, Cherng will shape Fingerpaint’s technology and AI strategy, modernize data infrastructure, guide clients through AI complexity, and champion a culture of applied innovation across the…

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