Rick Rigley Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Advisor to jeng, startup alternative adult beverage company.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Collaborate and provide strategic consulting services to early-stage, high-growth companies in retail/e-commerce, hi-tech, food and beverage and marketing industries.
• Manage business development and deliver strategic revenue growth advisory services to VentureShot accelerator and affiliated early-stage growth companies in digital, e-commerce, marketing and food and beverage.
• Lead financial strategy and support business development for True Group including flyby location-based analytics services for retail sector.

Greater Chicago Area

• Provide advisory and consulting services to TechNexus venture collaborative for the piloting and commercialization of venture-capital company technology to create disruptive innovations for Fortune 500 clients.
• Identify, define, and program manage integration and pilot innovation opportunities with venture companies to test and create commercial value for client companies.
• Create and manage pilot, integration and commercialization process for TechNexus venture-enabled innovation business practice.

Greater Chicago Area

• Engage, advise and collaborate with Senior IT and Digital leadership on core strategic growth initiatives for McDonald’s to turn around the business
• Drive Global Program Management for strategic IT and Digital restaurant technology development and deployment initiatives
• Create and develop a team of 20 Directors and Program Managers responsible for:o Planning and portfolio management for over $100MM global IT annual spendo Managing $45MM of digital development initiative spend
• Develop costing and market-based funding models for Digital/eCommerce corporate solutions
• Managed all U.S. Restaurant technology deployment
• Led a team of 30 Directors and Managers, responsible for:o Deployment of all technology to 14,000 restaurants, including acceptance testing, piloting and scaled deploymentso Partnering with U.S. Franchisee leadership.

Oak Brook, IL

• Pioneered customer-facing mobile technology development for U.S. ordering, customer engagement, and payment
• Led supplier negotiation for accelerated technology deployment resulting in $100MM of system savings on $500MM capital spend for 14,000 U.S. restaurants
• Directed U.S. cashless technology program, processing credit, debit and gift card payments for McDonald’s U.S. transactions. Spearheaded re-architecture for processing agility
• Oversaw development of 5-year technology roadmaps aligned to McDonald’s U.S. business strategy
• Co-led Franchisee Store Technology Board Economics sub-team with U.S. CIO and controller group, develop IT Technology funding model and created Technology Financial Review Board
• Directed U.S. IT Program Management organization for key U.S. technology initiatives, including point-of-sale and e*Restaurant

Oak Brook, IL

• Orchestrated all phases of requirements, supplier selection, and development of global next generation restaurant back office system
• Developed global business case for cashless payment and loyalty implementation for McDonald’s
• Led development and initial deployment of Geographic Information Systems into U.S. regions
• Created IT initiative management practice and process improvement team
• Part-time, stay-at-home dad, 2001 – 2004

Chicago

• Technology Consulting Manager
• Led various technology strategy, development and deployment projects
• Managed IT development teams for Fortune 100 manufacturing and distribution client projects
• Created technical architecture for enterprise transaction systems