the 2025 TEXAS RLF

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George Rios is a Senior Technology Advisor and an Executive Coach partnering with business and technology leaders to advise, guide, and provide insight to advance organizations to their desired business outcomes. With over 30 years of experience in IT, George has experience in working through top organizational challenges, dealing head-on with the impact of digital transformation, and fostering interpersonal relationships.  Coupled with the focus on building strong leaders and teams, he accentuated the importance of embracing change with solid collaboration between the business sector and technology organizations.  He is the former CIO and Director of IT for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and has held various IT leadership positions in the private sector, including Fisher Controls International, MediaNet, and Computer Science Corporation (CSC).  George is recognized as a technology leader in Texas, having served as the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) president and a board member on other civic and professional advisory boards.  In 2013, George was awarded the TASSCC President’s Award for IT Excellence, and in 2018 was awarded the CIO of the Year by the Texas Public Sector CIO Academy.  He is a graduate of Texas State University and attended both the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Governor’s Executive Development Program and the Executive Leadership for Information Technology Excellence.

Kimberly Sharp is an influential builder of high performing teams with 20+ years of combined retail industry leadership and IT consulting experience.  Kimberly provides clients with the strategic guidance, executive education, and ongoing support necessary to build inclusive, mission-driven teams and has the ability to inspire and drive excellence in individuals and their teams. She passionately lives her purpose, planting seeds of knowledge so that others flourish in their journey to become the best version of themselves.  She’s an active member and leader within her professional network, including Americas’ SAP User Group, NextUp and SIM Boston. She is a 2017 graduate of RLF.