EYESthere’s CEO, Rick Rene, has over 20 years of experience in leading organizations to success.  This spans from his early days in college and MBA school as President of professional speaking organizations to helping private companies grow and go public with Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

Most recently Rick was a Partner at Accenture (the largest consulting company in the world) where he focused on the Communication and High Tech industries serving clients such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and several start-up technology companies.   Rick was a key executive during Accenture’s IPO and was important to the success of Accenture during the consulting recession in 2002-2004 when he sold and delivered over $25M worth of consulting work.

Prior to Accenture, Rick worked as the CIO for Excel Communications during its hyper growth stage and helped lead the company to a successful IPO.  Shortly after Rick joined Excel, the company more than tripled in size in less than a year, growing from $300 Million to over $1 Billion in annual run-rate revenue.  Rick led nearly 400 resources in helping transform the company to be able to handle its high growth and become the 4th largest long-distance telephone company in the late 1990s. 
 
Rick earned a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) at Idaho State University and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Texas.  Rick grasps complex subjects quickly as evidenced by graduating with high honors at both Universities and him passing the CPA exam in his first sitting (a feat accomplished by less than 14% of examiners).

Rick has a passion for video technology and finding ways to use video to improve people’s lives.  He uses EYESthere solutions while traveling to be able to talk and see live video of his wife and two children on his laptop.  “I call it the ‘death of distance’ where distance does not matter since my kids can show me their school projects live, my wife can show me her new haircut, and we can pray together at night despite me being 1,000s of miles away.  That’s empowerment!”

Rick’s vision is to create even more powerful EYESthere video services that result not only in increased protection, but also the empowerment of business owners and the employees and business partners. Thus the Company name and tagline: EYESthere - to Protect and Empower!