About
Richard Clarke is a business building, revenue-growing executive IT strategist who wears a multitude of “hats” with confidence and ease. He’s a Chief Technology Officer who knows how to research and come to a pragmatic well managed business solution, and he’s a business strategist who thinks on a global scale.
Within these core business elements, is a matter-of-fact and creative senior executive who contributes innovative ideas and return-on-investment through compelling ideas and communications that bring people with diverse agendas on board.
For more than two decades, across a range of sectors and industries, Richard has 'broken the mould' of the IT consultant by enthusiastically and proactively delivering initiatives that blend today’s technologies with traditional business needs of productivity, growth and profitability.
Superior performances in driving revenues and corporate visions have gone hand-in-hand with his upward career trajectory that has generated a competitive advantage for all of those who have benefited through his input.
Using his talents, Richard has made complex processes and software development production simpler, smarter, faster and cheaper; transformed obstacles into opportunities; engineered enlightened solutions; and delivered successes including the development of the SureClose.com system for the real estate and financial services sector that has generated almost twenty million dollars (US) since launch.
Most recently as CRM Project Manager and Implementation Consultant at the Victorian Government’s Department of Industry, Innovation Research and Development, Richard has deployed Salesforce.com CRM to 350 users in Victoria and in London, Frankfurt, Dubai, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Tokyo, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. This project was delivered on-time and on-budget and is the largest deployment of Salesforce.com cloud computing into any Australasian government department.
Immediately prior, as Chief Technology Officer for PrintSf.com based in California USA and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, Richard transformed an outdated legacy system devoid of customer relationship management integration into a contemporary web-based solution incorporating customer data into print and email media, and seamless links to Salesforce.com.
Richard sees technology as a core business function with an indelible impact that benefits an entire organisation, its people and the customers it serves.
"As a Chief Technology Officer" says Richard, "I am always thinking of ways to serve the whole organisation. I understand business, so I make numbers make sense to the non-numbers person; I make the technical strategy make sense to the technology gurus; I make the potential technical obstacles resonate with the executive teams, and so on. With understanding and buy-in, initiatives can successfully support growth, greater efficiencies, more dynamic teams and boosted brand awareness. Seeing the results of a new idea ripple through an organisation is very satisfying to me and through those successes all stakeholders benefit."
Richard’s executive performance is exemplified by attributes that include intelligence, vision, creativity, pragmatism, passion, tenacity, communication, flexibility, experience and poise. Excited by the next big challenge, he is now ready to bring his global expertise to a forward-thinking company that understands and values an executive who drives momentum and new focus and directions for products, services and future visions.