Robert Ziegler

Innovating Healthcare, Retail, NPO's and Payments

Southlake, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Executive Consultant at Freelance
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Providing fractional CTO/CIO/COO/CSO/CPO services to various emerging and established companies.

  • Founder / CEO / CTO at Corduro
    Dec 2007 - Present · 18 yrs 7 mos

    The company simplifies and improves the way people and organizations interact across mobile, online and in-store relationships around payments and technology. - Established the first data driven payments optimization platform. - Raised over $8M in venture capital with Google Ventures leading the Series A round. - Established cryptocurrency strategy to support the emerging payment modality. - Delivered Store-in-Store Retail/POS solution for revolutionizing JC Penny’s retail experience - Provided the mobile and payment infrastructure for RBS Retail/POS platform - Established the data analytics strategy for specialty retailers, enabling a CPG value stream for manufacturers of regulated products. - Designed and implemented the product, network and process architecture - Led the business development and established key enterprise deals with Dignity Health, AYSO and LLS.

  • SVP at Exela Technologies
    Feb 2022 - Oct 2022 · 9 mos

    ExelaPay / Corduro® an omni-channel, full-stack processing, commerce, and engagement platform. Delivering integrated payments, pay-by-link, intelligent routing, and digital wallet capabilities, enabling any size organization to transform their business into a seamless commerce solution to reach customers anywhere, anytime. We provide scalable payment processing and business management solutions for SAAS, franchises, billers, merchants, and ISV’s. Its customers include one of the largest networks of hospitals in the country and both large enterprises and SMBs across healthcare, retail, education and NPOs.

  • Interim CSO / CTO - Executive Consultant at eoStar
    Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 · 8 mos

    A Private Equity owned firm providing mobile and software solutions for distributors, bottlers, wholesalers, retailers, and suppliers to manage Beer, Wine, Liquor, Bottling, and Vending business operations. - Managed Professional Services organization to stabilize key accounts and delivery processes. - Managed Engineering, Product, Services and QA teams. - Architected solution and managed POC to move on-premise enterprise software platform to SaaS - Established eoStar multi-tenant / SaaS architecture and managed the delivery of its core services - Supported the delivery of eoStar SaaS based analytics and forecasting platform - "Insights" - Professionalized business operations

  • Turn-around CTO at Omnigo
    Sep 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    A Private Equity owned firm, $30MM in ARR, provides software solutions for Law Enforcement, Safety and Education. - Managed, re-organization and aligned, Security, IT, Operations, Engineering, and Professional Services, consisting of 110 employees and two offshore teams. - Established a direct relationship with Microsoft and implemented specific application and architectural changes to reduce a 10X increase in hosting costs from a lift-and-shift decision by prior management. - Led the technical diligence process and established the integration process on two key acquisitions that will expand the company’s market share and overall viability. - Established the 2021 budget and plan to achieve financial, operational and technology objectives in line with the investors EBITDA mandate.