Richard J Reese is an award-winning IT professional with over 40 years of experience. He led the Enterprise Architecture discipline in multiple industries including banking, credit & debit card, payments, money management, and IT consulting. Transformational architectures he developed include a large-scale credit card processing platform which is in use over 25 years post deployment. He led early efforts in the contactless payments space paving the way for today’s mobile banking and person-to-person payments solutions. Richard led multiple organizations in the adoption of Salesforce.com on a global scale. He was an inaugural winner of the Forrester Research award for excellence in Enterprise Architecture and won multiple awards while working at IBM as a Certified IT Architect. As a mentor of IT talent, Richard has helped many who worked side-by-side with him to reach their professional goals. He lives in Florida with his wife who is Director of Audit at Brown University and has five children and five grandchildren