With 28 years of domestic and international experience, he is responsible for all operating and financial affairs at Sekurus. Prior to joining Sekurus, he had been SVP and CFO of Airbee Wireless, a public software company developing ZigBee-compliant embedded software for wireless mesh networks that he helped take public in 2003. Richard served as CEO of Dransfield Food & Beverage Holdings, Ltd., the international consumer goods subsidiary of Dransfield Holdings (listed on the SEHK) based in Hong Kong. He was a partner in The Meridian Partnership, a European private equity firm, VP-Finance and Investment of Resort Properties Group, and CFO of the Levant Group. For nearly 11 years, Richard held senior positions in international investment banking with Continental Illinois and Citicorp. He helped to take Dransfield China Paper Corp. a Chinese company public on the NASDAQ and engineered new financial products. He holds a Masters of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA (International Studies) from Virginia Tech. |