Rick Batchelor

Current

CEO at Qiigo LLC

Past

President at ZeeWise
Experienced Manager, National CIO Advisory Practice at Arthur Andersen, L.L.P.
Director of Web Hosting/Founder at Fronthost, L.L.C.

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Education

University of North Florida

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Industry

Information Services

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Rick Batchelor’s Summary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Qiigo (pronounced: key-go)
CEO
Qiigo develops custom lead generation programs for your Franchisees. Qiigo is a specialist in Sponsored and Organic Search for franchised and multi-location businesses. Our proprietary software application combined with deep technical knowledge, creates and distributes targeted, actionable leads to your Franchisees at a much lower cost then our competitors or doing it in-house.

Rick Batchelor’s Specialties:

Search Engine Marketing for Franchise Environments. We create custom lead generation programs for your franchisees. We help your franchisees grow.

Rick Batchelor’s Experience

CEO

Qiigo LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Qiigo develops custom lead generation programs for your Franchisees. Qiigo is a specialist in Sponsored and Organic Search for franchised and multi-location businesses. Our proprietary software application combined with deep technical knowledge, creates and distributes targeted, actionable leads at a much lower cost then our competitors or doing it yourself.

In short, Qiigo develops custom lead generation programs for your Franchisees. We help your franchisees grow.
President

ZeeWise

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — January 2008 (5 years 7 months)

ZeeWise focuses on the franchising sector. We collect store-level data from the existing line of business application in real-time over the Internet. The aggregated data is then presented in a web dashboard for analysis by the franchise executive team.
The name ZeeWise comes from "the franchisees", also called "the Zees"; Wise is a play on the insight our product provides the franchise executive team.
www.zeewise.com
Sold company in 2008.
Experienced Manager, National CIO Advisory Practice

Arthur Andersen, L.L.P.

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years)

As part of a national overlay team, provided thought leadership, methodology and direction for the regional practices. Focus is enterprise infrastructure from a both a technical and costing perspective (TCO methodologies). Contributing member of the Global Connectivity & Infrastructure Center of Excellence in the areas of storage area networking and service provider models including enterprise shared service centers. Instrumental role in defining Arthur Andersen's alliances for storage area networking including alliance work with the following vendors: EMC, StorageTek, Sun and Compaq. Successfully delivered numerous projects on-time and within budget while maintaining responsibility for customer satisfaction, setting client expectations, project planning, risk assessment and mitigation, as well as quality assurance.
Director of Web Hosting/Founder

Fronthost, L.L.C.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years)

One of the founding partners of a business to consumer e commerce application service provider. Customer base included both domestic and international customers; responsibilities included budgeting, managing client relationships, as well as providing vision, direction, and decision-making which directly resulted in over 350% annual growth. Managed several projects including rollout of award winning business to consumer e commerce product; implementation of supply chain project that automated online order taking, payment processing, order fulfillment as well as recurring billing, collections on past due accounts and provided a secure web based customer interface to the billing system. Facilitated sale to publicly traded company.

Rick Batchelor’s Education

University of North Florida

BA , Finance , May 1992

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Rick Batchelor’s Interests:

snow skiing runner mountain biking soccer College Football …well, heck, if it is outdoors and requires physical activity and sweat, I'm probably into it.