He joined the company in January of 2007 and has served a variety of strategy, marketing and sales roles throughout the company's growth. Rick is also a Certified Business and Executive Coach and oversees a diverse mix of key projects with clients on 3 continents and 6 time zones. His major clients include $100M - $300M divisions of Raytheon, Corning, Insperity, and ABB plus a long list of small and medium businesses (SMB) with revenues between start-up and $100M. For every $1 invested in business coaching, his clients enjoy a return of up to $7 immediately and a 3% - 30% growth in revenue is typical in the following year.

Before joining Business Growth U.S., The CxO Group company, Rick spent over 20 years in senior corporate leadership positions and as a student of Value Forward methodology. In the 1990's, Rick's professional reputation was first validated by becoming nationally recognized as a manufacturing evangelist at Textron and Intergraph Corporation. Following into the 2000's, Rick was a driving force in growth, and increasing revenue at Siemens PLM (UGS) , and HP Enterprise Services (EDS). More recently, at Cincom Systems and at Tecnomatix where he reported to the President & General Manager of North America Operations, Rick had overall responsibility for setting the strategy, and driving execution in establishing new selling, partnership, and distribution channels.

The book he co-authored, "CEO Success Strategies, Strategy is Important, but Execution is Better" was published in 2010 as well as dozens of articles, that mention him and the methodologies he follows have appeared in The Bottom Line, Investor’s Daily, the New York Times, Fox News, Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Magazine, CIO Magazine, CFO Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, among other places. He also guest spots on live radio about Business Growth Strategies and the sales, marketing and strategy process. Click here to listen to a recent live guest spot interview from CLEAR CHANNEL - CNN - KFXR/1190-AM - DALLAS TEXAS.

Rick is also publisher of The Revenue Growth Acceleration e-Newsletter (subscribe.businessgrowth.us), a national best practices thought leader publication focused on Sales, Marketing and Business Strategies to Increase Revenue and a staff writer to the largest sales strategy newsletter in the world, the Value Forward News with over 160,000 opt-in subscribers in 110 countries.