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As Chief Analyst for The Corporate Library, Ric is responsible for the firm’s research and ratings, and coordinates the activities of all its senior analysts and research associates. He is also responsible for most of The Corporate Library’s new product development.

Ric is a founding principal, with Nell Minow and Robert A.G. Monks, of The Corporate Library. He is the chief architect of its Board Analyst database and Board Effectiveness Ratings system, and, with Jackie Cook, the Board Analyst Director Interlocks Tool, the first commercial application of social network theory in this field.

He is also a co-inventor, with Robert A.G. Monks, of Brightline, a computer-based modeling program that permits the simulation and statistical analysis of selected types of corporate behavior on long-term investment value. Brightline is the first such application of complexity theory to the related fields of corporate governance and sustainability, and has been used both for purely academic research and in support of actual shareholder proposal filings.

Ric has been involved with corporate governance research and analysis for investment purposes since 1996, and is the former Chief Information Officer of Lens Investment Management. Prior to this he was active in the fields of computer consulting and computer-based graphic design, and worked as a consultant for The Corporate Library’s predecessor, Lens Investment Management, as early as 1989. He is a former trustee of Spring Harbor Hospital, a non-profit psychiatric hospital based in Portland, Maine, and affiliated with the Maine Health family of hospitals, and a founding director of NAMI CHOICES, the Portland NAMI affiliate.

Ric studied art, graphic design and communication theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he won several national awards for both journalism and graphic design.