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Strategy Development
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Capital Raising
Organizational Design
Product Development
Performance Optimization
Strategy Development
M&A Advisory
Capital Raising
Organizational Design
Product Development
Performance Optimization
Rick is a distinguished executive, entrepreneur and strategic advisor that has brought vision and innovation to multiple financial services companies spanning the last four decades.
He is an active board director for Maxwell Labs, Inc., and Cherry Creek Holdings.
In 2023, Rick served as board advisor to LauraMac, an early stage fintech company, where he helped the leadership team by opening the door to millions in new sales, developed a comprehensive product and growth strategy, brought new talent, and led certain corporate development activities.
From 2019-2022 Rick served as Vice Chairman, President and COO of Cherry Creek Mortgage (a top-50 independent mortgage lender) and Cherry Creek Holdings, where he continues to serve as Vice Chairman. During his tenure at Cherry Creek, Rick was responsible for all corporate services, including information technology, operations, compliance, marketing, human resources, finance and accounting. He also led the acquisition of a national real estate brokerage and the start-up of multiple businesses, including, a nationwide property and casualty insurance agency, a title and settlement business and several joint ventures.
He was a founding partner of Preserv Financial, Inc. in 1995 and LenderLive Holdings, Inc. in 1999. Rick held various senior leadership positions at LenderLive, leading him to serve as the company’s President and CEO from 2003 to 2017; he was responsible for the company vision, strategy, technology and operations. Under Rick’s leadership, LenderLive executed on a balanced strategy of organic growth and M&A, which culminated in the successful sale of the company in 2014.
Rick has been a senior advisor to dozens of ventures over the last decade and has been a long time supporter and proud member of the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association and its Executive Forum. He supports BPs Fight Against ALS, Habitat for Humanity and the Colorado Homeownership Coalition.
Throughout his career, Rick identified and successfully executed on multiple strategic acquisitions.
He was responsible for the landmark acquisition of Guardian Mortgage Documents in 2008, which transformed LenderLive from a mono-line loan processing company into a diversified tech-enabled services provider.
While at LenderLive, Rick continued to make opportunistic investments in five more platforms, including two title companies in 2011 and 2013, an innovative technology platform in 2014, and a specialized document compliance business in 2015. In 2017, he negotiated the acquisition of PHH’s private label services operations, which established LenderLive as the nations largest provider of loan fulfillment services.
in 2019, Rick led the financial restructuring of Cherry Creek Mortgage, which resulted in the creation of Cherry Creek Holdings and the succesful divestiture of the company's founding capital partner. At Cherry Creek he also led the formation of Found It Companies, which included the acquisition of a national real estate brokerage, the creation of a P&C insurance agency and a title business. All together, Found It represented a tech-forward, ecosystem of real-estate, mortgage, insurance and settlement.
Rick currently holds investments in several private companies, including Covius Holdings, Neat Capital, LauraMac, and Maxwell.
From 1985 to 1996 Rick held management positions with nationally recognized corporations including Citicorp, Mortgage Plus Incorporated, FirstPlus Financial and City National Bank.
In 1996, Rick co-founded Preserve Financial, Inc., a traditional first and second lien independent mortgage lender, where he served as the company’s Chairman, President and CEO from inception. Among his other accomplishments, Rick led a development team that created the Originator™ software application, a complete loan origination system and workflow management tool. During the credit crisis of 1998, Rick transformed Preserv from mortgage banker to software company. Upon selling Preserv to LenderLive in 1999, Originator became the nucleus of the LenderLive technology platform.
From 1999 through 2017, Rick was responsible for developing LenderLive’s strategy and converting it into a tactical reality. In addition to capitalizing on growth periods in the industry, Rick persevered through challenging times, successfully transforming LenderLive through the financial meltdown of 2008.
Under Rick’s continued leadership, LenderLive became the premier provider of technology and outsourced services to the nation’s largest banks, credit unions, vehicle finance companies and independent mortgage companies. He and the company developed strong relationships with the top four money center banks, 23 of the top 40 US banks by asset size, many of the nation’s largest credit unions and the industry’s leading independent mortgage companies.
In 2019 Rick joined the board of Cherry Creek Mortgage to provide oversight to the company and assist in a capital restructure. In 2020, Rick joined Cherry Creek full time as its President and COO, where he was responsible for all corporate operations.
In 2023, Rick joined Calterra Capital, where he provided advisory assistance to its portfolio investments, including LauraMac.
Rick is currently serving as an independent board director for Maxwell Labs, Inc, and is actively pursuing other ventures.
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