Your Executive Coach: Dr. Richard L. Routh

Dr. Richard L. (Ric) Routh is the senior business informatics faculty member at the University of South Carolina at the Upstate campus. He is also the Director of the Institute for CIO Excellence and provides commercial training services to CEOs, CIOs and CMOs, along with a team of professors from the George Dean Johnson College of Business and the Department of Informatics at USC Upstate.

Routh graduated from West Point in 1978 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army. He served in a variety of capacities while an officer to include being the founder and first Director of the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Training Facility where he directed the mentoring of senior Army officers in the strategic use of Artificial Intelligence technologies. During that time, he also served as a technical advisor to the Cabinet of the President of the United States (under President Reagan).

After his career in the Army, he was first the Vice President and then President of the GINESYS Corporation, a small company specializing in the creation and deployment of advanced technology applications to strategically create business value for U.S.-based corporations. He also directed the creation and operation of a successful dot.com business in the late 1990s.

Since 2002, he has been mentoring executives in the art of being better at using I.T. resources to strategically create business value. He is the author of two business books that teach business executives how to thrive in the political environments of corporate America: The Power of Role and How to Build Corporate Political Capital–For New Executives.

In 2004, he joined the University of South Carolina as the senior faculty member for Business Informatics. In 2005, he became the Director of the Institute for CIO Excellence.

Dr. Routh has mentored and guided many executives through the steps they need to become significantly influential corporate executives who are focused on, and skilled in, creating strategic value for their companies.

Email Ric Routh or call 1-800-277-8338 to set up an appointment.