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Mr. Richard Hulme, Select Staffing’s Chief Administrative Officer, boasts 30 years of executive experience in real estate development, marketing, and operations. He has been with Select Staffing since 1999. His current responsibilities include oversight of the payroll and billing department, accounts receivable and collections, and oversight of risk management, workers compensation, and insurance functions.
From 1999 to January 2005, Mr. Hulme was Regional Manager of the Inland Empire, adding the Santa Maria territory in 2004. During that time, he Managed the growth of his region to its current high point of $75 million in annual sales, a 50% increase over starting point Pioneered safety incentive programs, achieving significant early success in reducing injuries at several large onsite accounts Received the Presidential Safety Award three times Handled the acquisition activities of 4 competitors Worked closely with Select Staffing’s HR, legal, accounting, pay/bill, and collections departments Prior to joining Select Staffing, Mr. Hulme spent five years with the Bay Area’s Lincoln Property Company, the nation’s second-largest developer. There, his responsibilities included financial analysis, management of land acquisition, entitlements, architecture, engineering, construction, marketing, leasing, and management of completed projects. Mr. Hulme was also responsible for development and management of several large business parks on the Mid-Peninsula, including a $100 million, 85-acre R&D office park on the shores of San Francisco Bay that was dubbed the most complicated project Lincoln had ever done. Eventually, he became a partner at Lincoln.
Mr. Hulme’s distinguished career also includes 3½ years with Jones Lang Wootton, an international real estate asset management company, where he had primary responsibility for the early phases of a $200 million, 116-acre R&D/office park on shores of San Francisco Bay, including management of land entitlements, planning, engineering, and marketing.
Mr. Hulme spent nine years with Concrete Technology Corporation (CTC) and its successor, EarthShell Corporation, in Santa Barbara. For five of those years, he was VP of Marketing/Operations, and he served as President/COO of EarthShell for the other four years. His responsibilities included investor relations, strategic planning, market development, project management, sales, and customer relations. Mr. Hulme played a key role in taking the company public, raising $260 million in the IPO to finance the commercialization of the company's biodegradable packaging product for the fast-food industry.
Demonstrating his entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. Hulme owned and operated Great Harvest Bread Company in Santa Barbara. He owned 2 stores and managed 25 employees. He also spent one year as COO of eCommerceland, Inc., a startup dot-com in Santa Barbara. There, Mr. Hulme was responsible for strategic planning, funding, investor and customer relations, HR management, and financial and administrative management.
Mr. Hulme has a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Real Estate from UCLA. |
