CPA (1973); MBA (1970), University of Notre Dame, U.S.; BA (1968), Franklin & Marshall College, U.S.
Richard is a senior equity analyst at RBC GAM conducting research for the U.S. Microcap Core, Small Cap Core, Small Cap Value and Mid Cap Value Strategies. He joined the organization and the group responsible for managing these strategies in 2011, although had already been providing research to the team since 2007. Rich has more than 30 years of general and financial management experience. After beginning his career with a “Big Eight” public accounting firm, he held several corporate finance positions within a Fortune 100 company. Rich then went on to serve as CFO and secretary of a private scientific firm in Pittsburgh. Later, as vice president of corporate development for an employee-owned manufacturing firm, he led an acquisition program, and eventually the firm conducted a successful IPO. In addition to Rich’s research for RBC GAM, he most recently consulted with and advised the president and CEO of an international scientific private business. He joined the investment industry in 1975.