Former Chief Technology Officer at WebMD

Rick Treese became WebMD's Chief Technology Officer after several years as the company’s head of Engineering. As CTO, he was responsible for WebMD's Technology strategy and delivery, as well as the Engineering efforts for WebMD.com, Medscape.com, and the company's portfolio of award-winning mobile apps. Each month these products drove an average of 1.4 billion page views to 210 million unique users.Rick also led WebMD's technology Infrastructure and Operations efforts.WebMD was sold to KKR in 2017 for $3.8 Billion.
    
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  Our Company: 
WebMD is a leading provider of health information services to consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans.

Our Business: 
WebMD is the leading provider of health information and services to consumers and healthcare professionals. The online healthcare information, decision-support applications and communications services that we provide: 

help consumers take an active role in managing their health by providing objective healthcare information and lifestyle information. 

make it easier for physicians and healthcare professionals to access clinical reference sources, stay abreast of the latest clinical information, learn about new treatment options, earn continuing medical education credits and communicate with peers. 

enable employers and health plans to provide their employees and plan members with access to personalized heath and benefit information and decision support technology that helps them make informed benefit, provider and treatment choices.


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Rick led WebMD's Engineering team, which is responsible for the build of all products across Webmd.com, Medscape.com, and all other WebMD owned-and-operated sites. This includes the development of WebMD's growing portfolio of award-winning mobile apps. Each month these products drive an average of 1.4 billion page views to 210 million unique users.
    
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CTO - TheMarkets.com was partly owned by the world's top nine investment banks and provided software and data solutions to the Institutional Investment world. The company was sold to Standard and Poors in 2010 for $310 million.As Chief Technology Officer, Rick led all technology initiatives, which included driving the development and innovation of the company's entire suite of platforms for the investment community. He successfully supported TheMarkets.com's explosive growth by cultivating an agile and high-performing technology organization.TheMarkets.com's ownership: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America / Merrill Lynch, and UBS.Finance, Internet.
    
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  TheMarkets.com delivers research, estimates and broker data from hundreds of brokers to leading institutional investors worldwide. It is the industry's fastest-growing source for critical information to support investment decision-making. TheMarkets.com boasts a client list of over 2400 investment management firms in 51 countries, including two-thirds of the 100 largest asset managers and three-quarters of the 100 largest hedge funds. And, we're hiring! Email hr@TheMarkets.com to learn about available positions in our New York and London offices.

TheMarkets.com

CTO  -- Rick was appointed Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Advanstar Communications following two years as the Chief Technology Officer of the company's dot.com subsidiary.While at Advanstar, Rick was responsible for creating the technology, tools and processes that drove the company's hundreds of Digital Media products. He also successfully upgraded and transformed the company's internal systems by modernizing its software platforms, enterprise hardware, and network infrastructure.---------------------------------------March 2000-March 2002 CTO / Chief Technology Officer of Advanstar.comAdvanstar.com was a DotCom startup and the Internet division of Advanstar.  Since it was originally run as a separate entity, Rick was responsible for the buildup of all technology, including development of the digital products that drove all of Advanstar.com's revenue. He also created all IT infrastructure and the technology organization to support all Web / Internet efforts as well as the company’s 125 employees.Rick's success at Advanstar.com led to his role as CTO of the parent company, Advanstar, where he served from 2002-2008Digital Media, Internet.
    
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      Advanstar Communications
  

Rick was responsible for leading a global team of engineers in the development and integration of all software initiatives for Goldman's Equity Research Division internationally.Rick and his team wrote and managed a full portfolio of software that was used heavily by Goldman's Equity Research group across the globe. Functionality covered everything from full Content Management Systems with integrated market data and automated handling of real-time distribution, down to custom faxing and contact management applications. His work included the build of the first Equity Research digital authoring/workflow/delivery system at Goldman Sachs, which was created from the ground up in his first couple of years.
    
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Chief Technology Officer at WebMD

WebMD

Chief Technology Officer

WebMD

SVP, Engineering and Innovation

TheMarkets.com

CTO

Advanstar Communications

CTO

Goldman Sachs

VP, Software Development, Equity Research Division

Hofstra University

Finance and Banking

B.A.