Rich is a Husband and father of three. His passions are motorcycles, movies, writing and global travel. He is a 43-year finance, real estate, and venture capital industry executive who is currently the CEO of Low Emissions Resources Corporation. He also is involved in managing private equity investments, consulting on major commercial real estate and attractions projects, and an expert in the retirement field. He was previously a senior executive at three major financial institutions; Bankers Trust Company, Deutsche Bank and Bear Stearns. His initial career spanned corporate finance, sales and trading, structured products, emerging markets, processing and several other disciplines. Later in his career he focused on building and running large asset management businesses in both the traditional and alternative spaces and in the institutional and high net worth markets. He also served as Chairman and CEO of AFI (USA), a major distressed commercial and residential property developer, for whom he restructured over $2B of liabilities. He has been a successful financial entrepreneur, involved in founding several venture capital firms (Beehive Ventures and Green Visor Capital) and a hedge fund (Ironwood Global). Most recently he served as CEO of the New York Wheel, and is a director of Challenger Acquisitions, Ltd., a publicly-traded attractions business. Rich is a retired Clinical Professor from the Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management where he taught on topics such as asset management, alternative assets, retirement and pensions and project financing. He was elected to the Johnson School Hall of Honor in 2001. He has a BA in economics and government and an MBA in finance from Cornell. He is a published author of Global Pension Crisis: Unfunded Liabilities and How We Can Fill the Gap (Wiley & Sons,2013), Mater Gladiatrix (Lulu Press, 2017) and Gulag 401k: Tales of a Modern Prisoner (Lulu Press, 2017). He lives in New York City and San Diego with his wife, Kim.