Rick Bennett
CIO
T.D. Williamson, Inc.

Rick J. Bennett currently serves as the Chief Information Officer at T.D. Williamson based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  T.D. Williamson is an international pipeline integrity, services and manufacturing company with 1600 employees located at 57 locations within 37 countries around the world.  Rick’s responsibilities include the leadership of the Applications Systems, Infrastructure Services and Telecommunications teams serving the TDW organization.

His past professional achievements include Information Technology leadership positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blakely Crop Hail Insurance, National Farmers Organization, Taylor Ball Construction Management and The Principal Financial Group.  He is the founding member of the Management Information Systems Association (MISA) at Western Illinois University where he is a 1992 graduate. Early in his career he served in the United States Navy on the USS Waddell DDG-24 as an Interior Communications Electrician. Since the decommissioning of the warship in 1992 he formed the USS Waddell DDG-24 Association. A husband and father of three, Bennett also serves on the Executive Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Eastern Oklahoma and the Deans Council for Northeastern State University College of Business and Technology.