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Ric is Chief Analyst and 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, its corporate governance and securities litigation rating systems and, with Jackie Cook, its corporate director network visualization tools, 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 sustainable 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 since 1996; he 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 was a founding trustee of Spring Harbor Hospital, a non-profit psychiatric hospital based in Portland, Maine, and affiliated with the Maine Health family of hospitals, and is a former Treasurer and director of NAMI-Maine.

Ric currently lives on Sebago Lake, near Portland, Maine, where The Corporate Library is based.