Rick has considerable experience negotiating multi-million dollar contracts, managing global teams of diverse people, initiating new corporate ventures , raising venture capital, and deploying Department of Commerce and Department of Transportation funding to enable the use of new technology.

Rick is a Year 2000 ComputerWorld Smithsonian Laureate and is a 2008 Lawrence Tech Innovator of the Year nominee. This prestigious honor was awarded to him and two of his Action Engine company colleagues for their efforts in developing a consumer-oriented mobile services platform. Before Action Engine, and setting the standard for his work there, Rick trained and worked with industry leaders such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hexcel, British Telecom, Palm, General Motors, and Paccar. Rick, whose Great uncle was Joshua Slocum, (the first man to sail solo around the World) holds four Sailing World records and like many sailors, is a keen conservationist.

His current yacht is Areté a foiling trimaran, which allows him to appreciate and share with others all that the great bodies of water on this blue marble we call Earth.