Richard Strong

Director - Digital Office / Global Information Technology - I.T. Business Services at Harley-Davidson Motor Company

Accomplished Fortune 500 senior IT business partner, trusted advisor, and technology leader with a progressive 20+ year career of repeated success, and building high performing teams and systems globally. 20 years of senior strategy, innovation, transformation, and execution leadership building and delivering superior technology value propositions for driving business growth and for amazing stakeholder experiences. Extensive experience with business/technology strategies and roadmaps, digital, mobile, and automation launches, cutting-edge and modernization architectures including cloud and SAAS, and, day-to-day I.T. applications, infrastructure, telecommunications, security, data, and operations development and management. Expert in “Running the Business of I.T.” with unmatched skills in I.T. portfolio, project (PMO and agile), financial, resource, compliance, asset, contract, and supplier management. Served the Financial Services, Banking, Retail/Dealership, Automotive, Insurance, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Software, Beverage, and Hospitality/Theme Park industries. Proven leadership skills with a compelling blend of alignment to business needs, vision, strategic thinking, change management, pragmatic execution, program implementation, and business outcome delivery. Expert in driving value through team collaboration, relationships, innovation, technology, negotiations, partnerships, and business operations.