Rich Hale is the Chief Technology Officer of ActiveNav where he leads their product and engineering vision to provide customers and ‘Easy Button’ for achieving Zero Dark Data. Rich spent 16 years as a Royal Air Force Engineer Officer deployed around the world for operational, procurement and command missions and completed his service leading data discovery and information policy at the Command Headquarters. He is a product and information evangelist, with experience hard won through many years’ developing information governance programs in enterprise and government agencies.
Rich holds a Bachelor’s Honors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from London University, as well as a Master’s in Business Administration from the British Open University.