Adriana Neagu is a Romanian-born American entrepreneur and software architect. Since July 2009 she has been president and CEO of Formotus, Inc., a start-up company she co-founded in 2005 specializing in cross-platform mobile application development and cloud computing. She holds several patents and is co-inventor of both Formotus FormoPublish and Microsoft Office InfoPath.
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In April 2011 Adriana Neagu was invited by the White House to participate in a panel discussion about entrepreneurship that was broadcast on Facebook as part of President Obama’s town hall meeting event.[1] Panel participants included Austan Goolsbee, Mike Schroepfer, Lynn Jurich, and moderator Scott Case, head of the Startup America Partnership organizing the event.[2]
In 2007 Neagu received the national Stevie Award for Women in Business for Technology Innovator of the Year.[3] She has also been named regionally as one of the top 100 women in technology.[4]
Neagu earned her degree in Computer Science at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. After the fall of Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu, she moved to Vienna in 1990 where she pursued doctoral studies at the Universität Wien and worked on a joint Soviet/American project for the International Atomic Energy Agency.[5]
In 1995 Neagu won the ‘green card lottery’ and moved to the Seattle area to work at Microsoft. There she collaborated and co-wrote papers with XML pioneer Adam Bosworth.[6] Neagu was co-inventor along with Jean Paoli and others of Microsoft Office InfoPath and is named on several related Microsoft patents (as Ardeleanu) involving XML and other markup languages and structured data.[7]
Neagu co-founded Formotus in 2005 to take her XML expertise into mobile operating systems and smartphones.[8] As CTO she was the principal architect of the patent-pending ‘FormoPublish’ technology,[9] which uses cloud-based servers to convert XML forms into mobile applications and deploy them to mobile devices. Gordon Bell is an advisor to the company. Neagu's platform first supported Windows Mobile devices, then in 2010 added support for Android and iOS.
Enterprises use FormoPublish technology to put forms on mobile devices that can dispatch workers to jobs, capture electronic signatures, and connect to data on SharePoint, Oracle, SAP and other enterprise software servers.