Coy Wright

Mr. Wright serves as VP, Energy, Utilities & Mining Industry Solutions. In this role he is responsible for global strategy and business development to build and grow revenues across the energy, utilities, and resources (e.g. mining) industries. Mr. Wright is Rimini Street’s thought leader for all things related to this industry both internally and externally and will also establish and maintain strong relationships with key industry stakeholders, partners, and clients to understand their needs, support their innovation strategy, and ensure they are provided with support, products, and services that address their needs in the industry.

Mr. Wright is an accomplished global information technology executive with more than 30 years of leadership success in energy-related businesses across the upstream, midstream, and downstream lifecycle for traditional fossil fuels, renewables and utilities industries. He is frequent board of directors’, C-level advisor, conference speaker, industry expert, and global business IT strategist.

Mr. Wright has been a successful early adopter and developer of several current mainstream ERP and cloud technologies. He has successfully managed multiple global SAP and Oracle implementations/operations, one of the first production SAP Business Suite on HANA go-lives, and one of the first production S/4HANA go-lives on AWS.

Prior to joining Rimini Street, after a short stint in private equity, Mr. Wright was Chief Information Officer and Vice President of IT and Digital for Engie North America, where he was responsible for all IT and Digital for the North American (U.S and Canada) region of the French renewable energy company. His scope included Digital Solutions, Cybersecurity, IT Architecture, IT Operations, and business applications for the Renewable, Energy Solutions, Networks, and Thermal Supply business units.

Previously, Mr. Wright was Chief Information Officer for Pacific Drilling, a startup global deep water drilling contractor with operations in West Africa, Brazil and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. He has also held management roles at Weatherford International, Halliburton (Landmark Graphics), and Gulfmark Offshore (now Tidewater).

In addition to his corporate leadership roles, Mr. Wright was previously an Executive Board Member and the Technology Committee Chair at the Ronald McDonald House Houston.

Mr. Wright holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from University of Houston, and a Master of Business Administration degree with a cybersecurity concentration from Baylor University.