Robert Trotter

IT Leadership | Transformation | Innovation | FinTech

For the past decade, I have worked in IT advisory and delivery leadership roles for large global organizations, at the local, regional and global level, leading to expanded productivity and growth.

Coming from a general management background, I've come to embrace technology as a vital tool to harness unlocked potential for organizations in the increasingly competitive landscape of high-speed communication and globalization.

As Regional CIO for a $60 billion global company, I built the business case, engaged executive buy-in and led implementation of a shared services center integrating 5 independent business areas and 13 operating companies - impacting 14,000 end-users. The new shared service is projected to deliver $12 million in cost savings annually

Additional benefits of IT shared services:

• Delivering cost savings through technology infrastructure consolidation and rationalization.
• Bringing new technology to organizations significantly faster, and for a fraction of the cost.
• Freeing up cash tied to legacy IT systems - that can be used to expand businesses, innovate and drive business growth.
• Standardizing IT infrastructure and applications, significantly reducing technology complexity and improving overall IT performance.
• Delivering the framework for companies trapped in siloed business structures, to break out and commence collaboration across organizational lines.
• Expanding knowledge sharing to workers around the world - helping international companies to unlock the power of becoming truly global.

My approach is simple - I make IT easy - to gain acceptance, trust and engagement. In large complex organizations with outdated complicated IT Infrastructure, I have an innate ability to assess the IT and business landscape and propose solutions, in simple, easy to understand business terms, that elicit collaboration needed to drive transformation across all levels of the organization.

Companies

• Adjunct Professor University of Georgia - Terry College of Business (2019)
• Executive Partner Gartner (2017)
• Senior Vice President - Shared Services Fiserv (2015 — 2017)
• Director - Global Shared Services - IT Service Delivery Leader EY (2013 — 2015)
• President & CIO ThyssenKrupp (2011 — 2013)
• Sr. Vice President ThyssenKrupp (2006 — 2010)
• Vice President - Shared Services ThyssenKrupp (2003 — 2006)
• Director - Commercial US Steel - Straightline Source (2000 — 2003)
• General Manager - Dallas Ryerson (1996 — 2000)

Education

• BS Marquette University
• Master of Business Administration Marquette University