Rich Saccone

About Rich Saccone

Purpose, passion and progress. Innovative, strategic and purpose driven technology executive with extensive success leading complex technology, data and process transformations. Though my roots are in building technology solutions to solve business challenges, PEOPLE are the key to differentiation and my approach is centered around that core belief.KEY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES- Strategic Technology Planning: Enterprise-wide transformation initiatives with measurable business outcomes - Financial Services Expertise: Deep understanding of insurance/reinsurance, annuities, asset management and financial management operations - Global Team Leadership: Successfully leading complex international technology implementations - Stakeholder Partnership: Proven ability to align technology solutions with senior executive priorities - Innovation: Driving enterprise adoption of emerging technologies and data-driven decision making

Experience

1. Vice President - Global Technology and Operations

   Prudential Financial

   Sep 2006 — Present

   Strategic Portfolio Leadership • Lead strategic transformation of Financial Management Data Integration and Reference Data portfolio, managing hybrid cloud solutions connecting data across all business lines to corporate financial management domain • Spearhead enterprise AI adoption initiatives, removing data silos and expanding access to critical business intelligence for C-suite decision making • Partner with senior stakeholders across the global organization to accelerate data driven innovation and business process optimizationMajor Impactful Business InitiativesReinsurance Management Solution: Leading design and delivery of enterprise-wide reinsurance automation platform generating real-time financial data mesh updates for executive analysis • Accelerate new deal execution by 50% through process automation • Reduce operational costs by $1M annually through standardized business line processes • Enable real-time performance tracking across deal portfolio, supporting Prudential\'s core growth strategy Data Democratization Initiative: Removed critical data barriers across enterprise, enabling faster business decisions and AI-aligned innovation adoption • Successfully scaled hybrid cloud data solutions to support enterprise-wide financial management operations • Established foundation for automated financial process optimizationGlobal Tech and Operations Leadership• Led technology strategy and execution for Brazil Finance Transformation, a multi-million dollar international initiative encompassing hardware, software, data management, and process automation • Established deep strategic partnerships with Brazil subsidiary leadership to align technology solutions with local business requirements • Delivered significant annual cost savings through ERP architecture consolidation, enabling resource redeployment to higher-ROI strategic initiatives

Education

• Rutgers Business School

  Bachelor's Degree

Skills

• Integration
• Oracle Sql
• Leadership
• Systems Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Business Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Java
• Databases
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cognos
• Etl
• Enterprise Architecture
• Essbase
• IT Management
• Database Design
• Business Intelligence
• Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Obiee
• Vendor Management
• Sql
• Visio
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Financials
• IT Strategy
• Requirements Gathering
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture