Rich DeFabritus is an award-winning business leader with over 20 years of industry experience in Marketing and Product Management focused primarily in the technology industry.  Rich has conceived solutions for a wide range of initiatives and followed through to ensure successful implementation and goal achievement, including building strategic alliances with leading hardware, software, and services organizations, driving product development and launch efforts, and initiating social media strategies.

Rich has shared his thought leadership as a featured speaker for Focus and King Fish Media webcasts, and his articles have appeared in Accounting Today and Enterprise Networking Magazine.  Most recently, Rich led the social media efforts for Avaya's Small and Medium Enterprise Communications (SMEC) Business Unit, helping Avaya earn recognition as one of the Top 50 Most Social Firms by the Huffington Post.

Rich has been employed with firms such as Lucent Technologies, Dow Jones, and Avaya, as well as with startup organizations. He holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from Monmouth University and a B.S. in Accounting from Seton Hall University.