As a financial advisor and manager, Rick focuses on strategies to address, clients’ financial challenges while also overseeing firm-wide functions to help strive for no detail being overlooked.

Rick has been with Southwest Investment Advisors since 2019 and has more than two decades of business experience. Prior to joining the firm, he served as controller, chief financial officer and president of several consumer goods companies, where he helped drive double-digit revenue growth. He and his wife also own a jewelry boutique, Trinity Diamonds.

Rick has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing from Purdue University. He also has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. Rick has passed the FINRA Series SIE, 7, 24, 63 and 65 exams. Rick is also a practicing CEPA (Certified Exit Planning Advisor.)

Outside of work, Rick enjoys keeping up with the latest tech news, scuba diving, hiking, playing (or trying to play) the electric bass guitar and taking his dogs on long walks.