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Rick joined Deluxe in October 2006 as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Before joining Deluxe he spent three years at Tyco International Ltd. where he held the positions of vice president and chief financial officer of the Tyco Plastics unit and then chief financial officer of the plastics and adhesives segment which was renamed Covalence Specialty Materials Corp. upon divestiture. During his tenure at Tyco Rick spearheaded a major restructuring of the $1.1 billion plastics business drove significant working capital improvements and then orchestrated the divestiture of the plastics and adhesives segment to private equity sponsor Apollo Management. Before joining Tyco Rick spent eleven years in positions of increasing responsibility with Allied Signal Inc. and then Honeywell International when the two companies merged.
During this time he lived in France for several years where he provided financial support to the Aerospace team in Europe the Middle East and Africa. Rick returned to the United States in 1996 to complete the acquisition of LORI Inc. an aerospace manufacturing/repair and overhaul company. After the Allied Signal and Honeywell merger he held director of finance roles with a "start up" business unit with a $125 million industrial process automation business and a $700 million unit serving oil/gas and petrochemical customers. Rick began his professional career in 1987 at Greenwich Associates a research-based consulting organization.
Rick earned his bachelor of arts degree in international management and Spanish at Claremont McKenna College in 1987 and has a master's of business administration degree in finance/strategic studies from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. | 