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Rich Pleasants

Pioneer · DISC type DIS
Director, Cloud Alliances and Enterprise Architecture at Impact Advisors
📍 Greater Charlottesville Area, United States

Rich is a results-driven Sr. Executive and Cloud Sales Leader at Impact Advisors with 38 years of experience at firms like Oracle, VMWare, and HPE. He specializes in cloud architecture, AI/ML, and enterprise solutions for the healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Colleagues describe him as a passionate, thought-provoking, and skilled communicator.

Outside of his technology career, Rich is passionate about sustainability and hands-on innovation. He is actively designing and building an integrated renewable energy and atmospheric water generation system for his personal log cabin, showcasing his interest in sustainable living and self-sufficient energy solutions.

Unique fact: Rich is an inventor and was working on establishing a manufacturing plant for wind turbine technology.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director, Cloud Alliances and Enterprise Architecture
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Charlottesville Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Rich shows up

Decisive But Friendly
Friendly But Fast
Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product

Priorities

Topics Rich cares about

AI Business Strategy
Recently obtained a certification from MIT Sloan on the business implications of Artificial Intelligence and has experience with ML, LLMs, and AIOps in past roles.
Renewable Energy
Authored a publication on the renewable energy workforce and is designing a personal, integrated renewable energy system for his log cabin.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Director, Cloud Alliances and Enterprise Architecture
Impact Advisors
8-2024
Chief Innovation Officer
MidAtlantic Industries
10-2014 - 10-2025
Founder and CEO
Pleasants Industries of VA
11-2023 - 6-2024
Vice President - Oracle Technology
Argano
9-2022 - 6-2023
Senior Director - Chief Technologist - Oracle Cloud Americas
EPAM Systems
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
6-2023 - 7-2023
Certificate
Udemy
6-2023 - 6-2023
Certificate
Oracle University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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