Rick was born in Argentina and after living in New York for a while, he moved to Asia where he spent 10 years before relocating to the US. He is a specialist with over 24 years leading sales and marketing, business development and corporate account development and management with broad decision-making experience in materials sourcing manufacturing, materials development and materials quality (i.e. multiple types of leathers and derivative products, splits, synthetics, etc.) and managing and leading teams of up to 80 people.