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Rich Wagner is the Founder and CEO of Prevedere. Prevedere is an industry insight and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. Wagner has nearly 37 years in the information technology & services industry. He began his career in 1987.
Before joining Prevedere, Wagner was a director of IT strategy and innovation at Momentive Specialty Chemicals, Inc. and before that a director of global infrastructure at Momentive. Earlier in his career he worked with Ohio Air National Guard as a tech sergeant.
Wagner graduated from Franklin University with an MBA and from The Ohio State University with an undergraduate degree in business administration.
Rich’s career spans more than 20 years of technology innovation and leadership, during which he has provided extraordinary value to global enterprise companies. In 2012, Rich launched Prevedére to provide corporations worldwide the ability to significantly improve their financial forecasts, projections and reporting capabilities combining internal and related global external data. With Prevedere, companies gain a competitive advantage because they are able to generate profitable business insights with accurate forecasting that encompasses ever-changing external factors. Prior to Prevedere, Rich was Director of IT Innovation and Strategy for Momentive, a global leader in Specialty Chemicals. While at Momentive, Rich noticed a significant void in the ways companies managed financial planning and analytics, which led to the birth of Prevedere’s innovative SaaS solution that ensures companies are looking at the right factors that drive business revenue and profit. As a forward-thinking predictive analytics thought leader, Rich has contributed to publications such as ChiefExecutive, Supply and Demand Chain Executive, Wired, Manufacturing Business Technology, CMSWire, Website Magazine and FORBES.