Rick Pride

Rick is the founder of CIO Services Group and serves as President and Principal Consultant. Rick is an accomplished information management executive with broad and deep experience providing global business and technology leadership. His industry background includes healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, logistics, and government. Rick’s skillset includes strategic planning, organization design, cybersecurity, business analytics, forecasting, and process improvement. His business knowledge spans logistics, finance, manufacturing, sales, and marketing.

As a consultant, Rick has helped senior leadership change and improve their IT organization and resources. He also has worked with senior management leaders to develop and improve their understanding of IT and create IT strategies and plans. The result of his guidance and recommendations generally leads to reduced costs, stronger IT governance practices, better IT and business processes, simplification of IT technology, and more optimal utilization of IT resources.