Rick Hart Email & Phone Number

Richardson, Tx

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Leveraging years of experience as an operations and technology executive across multiple industries, to assist organizations and their owners and leadership in times of transition. Transition can be due to growth, decline, search for senior leadership or simply the need to operationally and financially review an organization.Most recent was the transition of a well-known organization that provides a full range of services for people with physical and intellectual disabilities as they… Show more Leveraging years of experience as an operations and technology executive across multiple industries, to assist organizations and their owners and leadership in times of transition. Transition can be due to growth, decline, search for senior leadership or simply the need to operationally and financially review an organization.Most recent was the transition of a well-known organization that provides a full range of services for people with physical and intellectual disabilities as they strive to achieve their highest level of independence.The board of directors needed a chief executive to lead the organization and to serve as the point person for the executive search for a permanent CEO.As Interim Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Rick Hart was appointed by the board of directors to lead the organization during a period of significant transition. The organization encountered a significant financial crisis during which the previous CEO left the organization.Some of the challenges encountered were lack of financial controls, non-timely financial statements, leadership deficiencies and antiquated technology platforms among others.Turned a loss in excess of one million dollars to positive gain of over $400,000 in less than 6 months. Show less

Served as interim president/CEO after departure of current incumbent. Responsible for the daily operations and search for permanent president/CEO.Report directly to board of directors.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

DIMONT is a technology-enabled solutions provider that delivers exceptional value to its deep partnerships within the financial services industry through specialized services such as hazard claims adjustment, flood insurance compliance analysis and other insurance-related project work. DIMONT’s outstanding people, armed with unique technologies and scalable processes, embrace constant change in this unpredictable, highly-regulated marketplace and deliver best-in-class client services.As… Show more DIMONT is a technology-enabled solutions provider that delivers exceptional value to its deep partnerships within the financial services industry through specialized services such as hazard claims adjustment, flood insurance compliance analysis and other insurance-related project work. DIMONT’s outstanding people, armed with unique technologies and scalable processes, embrace constant change in this unpredictable, highly-regulated marketplace and deliver best-in-class client services.As Chief Operating Officer, COO, Rick Hart was recruited to establish and guide platforms to handle dramatic growth through multiple office locations for this privately owned leader that provides hazard claims services to major banking institutions, large mortgage loan servicers and government sponsored enterprise (GSEs) serving 50 states. Successfully restructured and guided operations and information technology, while ensuring client relations and governmental compliance with the SEC, OCC and CFPB in partnering with the senior leadership team on business growth and strategy. • Created a forward-focused business partnering organization by driving results and operating rhythm, while improving process and controls • Increased company growth to over 250% in less than 3 years, while only increasing staff by 21%• Triaged and implemented system changes to improve productivity due to the company experiencing dramatic impacts to production due to system challenges• Implemented robust multistate compliance and licensing programs in accordance with governmental regulations for all 15 major clients• Provided executive leadership to stabilize the organization during 3 ownership changes, resulting in maintaining top level service and scores from clients Show less

Responsible for expanding this North Carolina based management-consulting firm into the Texas market. Led the complete startup process, including hiring the senior team and guiding the sales and delivery of consulting services to the Fortune 500 financial services institutions and technology companies. Established the sales processes and a robust sales pipeline

During my tenure with GuideStone Financial Resources, I have implemented multiple enterprise-wide system. As part of the executive team, I have put in place the operating environment to support the daily valuation of the organization's proprietary mutual funds. Additionally, I was part of the executive team that successfully took our non-registered mutual funds into the fully SEC registered world. Further, we implemented multiple share classes.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area