Executive Bio
Mr. Daniel W. Rizer has been Chief Strategy Officer at Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. since December 2017 and served as its Executive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development from November 16, 2017 to December 2017. Mr. Rizer served as an Executive Vice President of Product Management, Marketing & Business Development at Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. and served as its Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development since March 10, 2017. Mr. Rizer served as Executive Vice President of Product Management, Marketing & Business Development at Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. since November 18, 2015 until March 10, 2017 and served as its Executive Vice President of Business Development and Product Management from January 2014 to November 18, 2015. Mr. Rizer served as Executive Vice President of Business Development of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. since November 2008. Prior to joining Synchronoss, from 2005 to November 2008, Mr. Rizer held various positions with Motrocity Inc. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Motricity Inc. and also served as its General Manager of Global Carrier Business since November 2005. He served as Managing Director of the Communications practice at BearingPoint and Partner at IBM Business Consulting Services and Accenture. Mr. Rizer has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry to his position at Motricity, expanding on focused expertise in the wireless fields. Prior to joining Synchronoss, Mr. Rizer served as the Chief Operating Officer for Motricity, which provides Portal, Storefront, Search, Managed Web and Gateway solutions to mobile operators and content providers. He has a proven track record that includes success in building and operating businesses, as well as structuring and completing complex deals and solutions. Most recently, Mr. Rizer served as IBM''s Next Generation Network/Network Transformation leader of the Americas Group. In this position, he helped to build solution-based business to drive large, complex deals comprised of IBM services, hardware, software and third-party partners, expanding IBM''s NGN, SDP and BSS/OSS market share while directly contributing to signings and profitability. He served as the Global Relationship Partner for IBM''s Verizon account, with direct responsibility for IBM services across Verizon and Verizon Wireless. Prior to IBM, Mr. Rizer served as Managing Director of the communications sector strategy practice at BearingPoint, a top provider of strategic consulting, application services, technology solutions and managed services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations. Prior to BearingPoint, Mr. Rizer served as a Partner in Accenture''s telecommunications practice, where he served as a senior strategy representative on an account team for a major U.S. telecommunications client. Mr. Rizer received his Bachelor of Science in Operations Management from Auburn University and graduated with a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Boston University.