Roger Young is a Strategic Account Executive at Appvance, specializing in AI-native quality platforms to accelerate DevOps cycles. With a background in cloud sales and SaaS strategy at firms like Upland and OpenText, he helps engineering leaders eliminate testing bottlenecks. He holds a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification.
Roger is a decorated sales professional, having won the Presidents Club award eight times throughout his career.
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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Strategic Account Executive
Location
Naples, Florida, United States
Personality Overview
How Roger shows up
Decisive
Impact-Driven
Candid & Clear
They like to act fast and expect others to do the same. More than the product, they care about the effectiveness of the product. They respond better to strong and respectful interactions.
Priorities
Topics Roger cares about
AI in QA
His current role at Appvance focuses on using AI to solve traditional testing bottlenecks and improve software quality, a topic he frequently posts about.
DevOps Velocity
A core theme in his professional messaging is scaling quality assurance to match the high speed of modern CI/CD pipelines and development teams.
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Career
Work history
4-2025
Strategic Account Executive
Appvance
4-2025
Strategic Advisor, AI Software Quality Transformation
Appvance
7-2024 - 4-2025
Global Account Executive
Upland Software
5-2023 - 3-2025
Strategic Account Executive/Dir., Partner Sales
Meridian IT Inc.
2-2022 - 5-2023
Strategic Account Executive
OpenText
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Education
Coursework in General Studies
The Ohio State University
• “Becoming Head of Sales: Developing Your Playbook”
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