Rich Gagnon is a highly experienced technologist and executive leader. Prior to filling his role as Assistant City Manager and CIO at the city of Amarillo, Rich lead the worldwide engineering team responsible for billions in annual revenue as the Global Vice-President of Systems Engineering for F5 Networks. He also led as the Theater Vice-President of the Americas for Palo Alto Networks and the Director of Global Infrastructure for GameStop. After more than thirty years of advancing from an entry level technician to executive leadership, he moved back to Amarillo with a strong desire to serve the community he calls home. Rich now applies his experience and proven track record of bringing transformative technical and business initiatives to market in the private sector to his work for the residents of Amarillo.