Allan Fried, Senior Vice President of Product Management

Allan Fried is senior vice president of product management at Cypress Software Systems. He brings more than 25 years of financial services and product management leadership experience to the position, and he is responsible for managing Cypress’ product roadmap and software release rollout process, in addition to quality assurance.

Prior to Cypress, Fried was assistant vice president of product management at Atlanta-based Equifax Information Services Inc., where he managed the Global Product Management group’s software solutions for the automotive and mortgage industries through market research, sales support and new product innovation.

Before that, he was director of product management at Appro Systems Inc. in Baton Rouge, La. where he helped design the company’s Microsoft .NET-based loan origination software and supervised overall product management before the company was acquired by Equifax.

Fried also co-founded Norcross, Ga.-based Corporate Solutions International and was responsible for the design, implementation and release management for an image-enabled loan origination software system. That company was subsequently acquired by Alltel Information Services Inc. of Little Rock, Ark. in 1999, where Fried served as product strategy manager and was responsible for the strategic vision of the company’s loan origination system, third-party solution partner relationships and change management.

In addition, Fried’s financial services experience includes positions held at Georgia Federal Bank in Atlanta and Continental Federal Savings Bank in Fairfax, Va.

Fried received his bachelor’s degree from Rider University in Trenton, N.J., and he is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association and National Automotive Finance Association.