Foster Sayers is Vice President of Legal Operations for symplr. His career includes 15 years of in-house legal experience that began as a Staff Attorney for Mainline Information Systems, IBM's largest channel partner in North America, and he most recently was General Counsel & Chief Evangelist for Pramata Corporation and before that legal counsel for private equity-backed Vertafore.
Foster has experience as an entrepreneur and inventor, having founded two companies (including his most recent venture, Tactile VR) and is a first-named inventor on three U.S. patents and a Canadian patent. He is a published author and speaker on topics such as contracts, cybersecurity, employment practices, ethics, and artificial intelligence.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Foster attended Penn State University and earned degrees in international politics and Japanese. He earned his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Florida State University College of Law and is a world traveler who speaks Japanese, French, and Mandarin Chinese.
With proposed requirements ranging from accessible self-service kiosks to accessible medical equipment, the impact of this new rule will be wide-ranging with financial, operational, and practical consequences.