As President and Chief Executive Officer at Prevedere, Rich Wagner empowers companies to look beyond their own four walls for key external drivers of financial performance. In his role, Rich provides the strategic leadership and vision that has propelled the growth and success of both Prevedere and its clients, which include some of the world's largest enterprise companies and top global brands.At Prevedere, Rich is leading the initiative to close the gap in inaccurate forecasting by utilizing millions of global metrics, including macroeconomic factors, global manufacturing activity, consumer behavior, online traffic and weather data. Rich has uniquely positioned Prevedere as a complimentary solution to existing forecasting and demand planning platforms on the market due to its open application of external economic factors that are often left out of traditional forecasting. Under Rich’s leadership, Prevedere has been named a “Cool Vendor in Information Innovation” by Gartner and one of IDG Research’s “5 Startups to Watch” since launching in 2012. Prevedere continues to gain recognition by top industry experts and was recently recognized by Innovation Enterprise as the FP&A solution of the year in Forecasting and Planning.

Identify new technology to assist in solving key business problems. Leverage existing software and hardware technology to create and enhance Executive Reporting. Lead and/or participate in major Corporate projects including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Develop IT project prioritization methodology and work with corporate and business executives to align resources, budget and timing.

Designed, implemented and managed a large, complex IT environment and uphold best-in-class standards.Effectively communicated complex IT issues to executive management, provided technical leadership to multiple functional domains. Worked with business to understand IT needs and evaluated, purchased, installed and maintained new technologies.Selected and managed 75+ global associates, developed managed and tracked over 20 million in annual IT budget.

Installed and supported Global ERP system (SAP R3), Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence along with non ERP mission critical enterprise applications. Managed team to support enterprise applications and global wide area network. Positions held and skills acquired included Senior SAP Basis Administrator, SQL Server DBA, Manager Global Network, ASP.NET application programmer.