Rich Gagnon

Rich Gagnon serves as Assistant City Manager and Chief Information Officer. Rich leads the Information Technology, Office of Engagement and Innovation, Public Health, Civic Center, Women Infants and Children, and Transit teams, as well as the 3-1-1 and Broadband initiatives.

Rich is a highly experienced technologist and executive leader. Prior to filling his role at the city of Amarillo six years ago, Rich lead a worldwide engineering team responsible for over a billion dollars of annual revenue as the Global Vice-President of Systems Engineering for F5 Networks. He also led as the Theater Vice-President of the Americas for Palo Alto Networks and the Director of Global Infrastructure for Gamestop.

Rich now applies his experience and proven track record of bringing transformative technical and business initiatives to market in the private sector to his work for the citizens of Amarillo.