Rick Ruiz BS
Executive in Residence
Rick is a senior executive with proven success turning around multiple under-performing businesses, leading and transforming multibillion dollar international and geographic-specific businesses in both growth and renewal phases. He is known for delivering outcomes and making a difference. He leverages strategic, operational, and financial expertise to drive execution, identify new revenue opportunities, deliver efficiency, and improve employee engagement, all while balancing the company, customers, and employees to achieve revenue, spend, profit, engagement, and nps. His experience includes Spinning off the $19B IT Services unit from IBM into Kyndryl (KD on the NYSE), delivering top quartile of employee engagement at IBM and Kyndryl, leading the P&L for IBM’s most profitable business unit, achieving wins with the largest companies in Europe/MEA, leading 21,000 Employees and a 48-Country P&L, and reinvigorating multiple business units with declining revenue and profit into growth units.
Cultural Transformation Champions
Cultural champions drive cultural change by engaging deeply in the organization at all levels.