Rick Tingman

Strategic Advisor, BI2PI.com

Rick is currently the Strategic Advisor to BI2PI.com and is also working with a number of start-up companies in the cloud computing industry.

Rick has over 35 years experience as a senior leader in the ICT sector with a focus on change management, and development of secure, scalable solutions. Prior to joining BI2PI.com, he worked with Bell for 14 years where he was the strategic advisor to public sector clients and a data centre and security practice leader. While with Bell, Rick was seconded to the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee as a senior implementation manager, where he was responsible for the design and execution of a rapid, scalable IT deployment methodology for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Prior to joining Bell, Rick spent 25 years in the Canadian Forces, where he served as a Communications Electronics Engineering Officer, responsible for the design and operations of a number of National Defence’s global infrastructure services. Rick received his education at the Military College in Kingston Ontario and also served as an instructor for 6 Years.

Rick is an active member of NIST’s working groups for standards development on cloud and cloud carrier services.