Richard’s career spans years of private equity investing, M&A advisory and strategic corporate advisory. He has successfully executed transactions totaling billions of dollars in deal value and advised both publicly- and privately-held companies on mandates ranging from distressed asset sales to tax-efficient M&A structuring.

Prior to Founding ARRC, Richard worked as an investor at NextGen Growth Partners, a lower-middle market private equity fund specializing in majority buyouts. He focused on deal execution and ongoing portfolio management. During his time at NextGen, Richard spearheaded numerous value-added projects with portfolio companies and successfully deployed a majority of the committed capital from Fund I.

Prior to NextGen, Richard worked as an investment banker at Robert W. Baird, where he specialized in M&A advisory and strategic corporate advisory. He worked across geographies to execute transactions with clients that included blue-chip international and multi-national companies broadly operating in infrastructure, industrial automation and manufacturing.

Prior to Baird, Richard worked as an investment banker at Raymond James, advising multi-billion-dollar publicly- and privately-held companies on M&A transactions.

In addition to his private sector experience, Richard has also worked in the public sector, including in municipal finance investment banking at Raymond James and municipal fixed income sales and trading at Morgan Keegan.

Richard earned a Master of Science in Finance from Vanderbilt University, where he attended on academic scholarship and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and minor in Accounting, with honors, from Clemson University. Additionally, he is a certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma management practices, designating him capable of implementing and sustaining high-impact projects across a range of industries.