{"id":262066,"date":"2026-06-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology-product-officer-role\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:10:15","slug":"fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology-product-officer-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology-product-officer-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingerpaint Group Names Sarah Cherng as Chief Technology &#038; Product Officer Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology--product-officer-role-302788723.html\">Fingerpaint Group Names Sarah Cherng as Chief Technology &#038; Product Officer Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology--product-officer-role-302788723.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology&#8211;product-officer-role-302788723.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prnewswire.com\">www.prnewswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">June 2, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Fingerpaint Group today announced the appointment of Sarah Cherng, PhD, MPH, as Chief Technology &#038; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 Est\u00e9e 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She translates complex data science and AI into tangible business value and has a proven track record of scaling high-performing organizations,&#8221; said Bill McEllen, CEO of Fingerpaint Group. &#8220;Sarah is exactly the leader to help us push our work further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, Cherng will shape Fingerpaint&#8217;s technology and AI strategy, modernize data infrastructure, guide clients through AI complexity, and champion a culture of applied innovation across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology--product-officer-role-302788723.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingerpaint Group Names Sarah Cherng as Chief Technology &#038; Product Officer Role https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fingerpaint-group-names-sarah-cherng-as-chief-technology&#8211;product-officer-role-302788723.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1892570\/Fingerpaint_Group_Logo_01.jpg?p=facebook","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,62],"class_list":["post-262066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262068,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262066\/revisions\/262068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}