DermatoogistOnCall is the largest online network of dermatologist in the United States with more than 130 providers practicing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Company’s custom store-and-forward technology platform enables board-certified dermatologists to remotely diagnose, treat and prescribe medication for more than 3,000 conditions patients may be experiencing. Since joining DOC, Richard and his colleagues have restructured the Company, forged new partnerships with L’Oréal, Walgreens, MDLive, Amwell, Walmart among other strategic partners resulting in significant growth. DOC's services are a covered benefit for more than 20 million individuals.

Imagine Pharma is an emerging pharmaceutical founded by Dr Ngoc Thai, the System Chair of Surgery, Allegheny Health Network (AHN), Founder of the AHN Liver Transplant Program, and the former Director of Pancreas Transplantation, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, at UPMC. The Company has synthesized a polypeptide, and has patents or patents pending on derived pharmaceutical compositions and associated methods and uses, the data of which shows potential order-of-magnitude advancements in the treatment for Type 1 and 2 diabetes, pulmonary hypertension and wound care, among other conditions. Richard is a Type 1 diabetic and once served as the Finance Chair of “The Ultimate Walk to Cure Diabetes” an expedition by a diabetic pulling a sled to the South Pole with diabetic researchers studying diabetic physiology under extreme conditions The project’s patron was the Honorable Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter of Earnest Shackleton.

Chicago Pacific Founders (“CPF”) is a strategic healthcare investment fund focused exclusively on healthcare services. The fund was founded by Mary Tolan, an industry expert in healthcare innovation and commercialization and also a Trustee at the University of Chicago. Between 2013 and 2017 CPF raised $325 million and another $119 million in a co-investment vehicle to invest up to $75 million of equity capital per opportunity in growth, minority recap, and buyout transactions for cash flow positive businesses. CPF has investments in the senior living, behavioral health, and dental industries among other platforms

Richard provided business development consulting services to private companies and investment funds. Clients included a DC-based venture capital firm, a boutique investment banking firm in Cleveland, Ohio, technology companies including one spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, an NHL franchise, a $750 million private foundation, a micro-cap buy-out fund, a $1 billion health care company, and a Fortune 500 asset manager. Richard has also been (1) a Director of Idea Foundry, an economic development company focused on sparking innovation in the Western Pennsylvania private sector, (2) Former President of the Board of Trustees of Fort Ligonier, the 18th-century British colonial installation used by George Washington to stage the military eviction of French forces during the French and Indian War; (3) formerly a Director of Loyalhanna Watershed Association, a conservation organization in western Pennsylvania, and (4) formerly Director of Valley Advocates for Responsible Development in Driggs, ID.

Assessed manufacturing capabilities of factories in China, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Romania and Italy before purchasing large volumes of component parts and selling them to US manufacturers of US consumer durable goods.

Primary speech writer and a spokesman for the Chairman of Texas Air Corporation, Frank Lorenzo, during a time Mr Lorenzo and his management team created by acquisition and organic growth the largest airline system in the world with assets that included Continental Airlines, Eastern Airlines, New York Air, and People's Express.