Richard C. Simpson, Jr. Resume

Summary

  • Certified Primal Health Coach, who over decades of CxO-level stress and travel lost and then regained health.
  • Highly educated (Harvard BA, MBA), with the wisdom of experience and once again the energy of youth.
  • Rare combination of board-level corporate governance and strategy expertise with decades of hands-on operating management in professional services and technology
  • Skilled at improving performance by diagnosing problems, developing creative solutions, uncovering new opportunities, project management, and implementing organizational change.
  • Proven leader of management teams, who builds revenues, motivates, communicates and inspires trust.
  • Business start-up, strategy, IT and process consulting leadership.

CUSTOM WELLNESS SOLUTIONS

Boston, MA and Hancock, NH   |  2016 - present

  • Health coaching for those seeking to regain vitality and improve personal performance, using approaches based in science and evolution to improve nutrition, exercise, stress management, and sleep hygiene.

RICK SIMPSON CONSULTING

Boston, MA and Hancock, NH   |  2012 - 2017

  • Consulting and interim management services for businesses of all sizes across a wide spectrum of industries. Engagements included strategic analysis leading to new operating initiatives for an operator of multiple senior living facilities, improving business practices for a market research firm, and management for a foundation serving education, seniors, and asthmatics.

CAMBRIDGE TRUST COMPANY

Concord, NH and Cambridge, MA (Vice President)  |  2008 - 2012

  • Wealth management business development.

SIMPSON ASSOCIATES

(Boston, MA)

CMG PARTNERS, LLC

Durham, NC   |  Associate Partner|  2003 – 2008

  • Go-to-market strategies, interim management, and sales effectiveness for clients in telecommunications, high technology, financial services, and healthcare. 

CMGI, INC.

Andover, MA  |  Vice President for CMGI   |  2000-2003

  • Reporting to the CEO, prepared CMGI and major subsidiary strategic direction, including business development, M&A and recommendations for divestitures and restructuring.

ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC.,

Bedford, MA  |  SVP, North American Sales and Operations  |  1998–1999

  • Directed sales, systems installations and project management, professional services, customer support and maintenance, and finance operations for this division, representing 50% of the company’s business. 

SYMMETRIX, INC.

Lexington, MA  |  Vice President  |  1989 – 1992  |  (gap – see below)  1995 - 1997

  • Developed, sold and managed delivery of professional services dealing with strategy, operations improvement, information systems development and change implementation.  Management Committee; Project Management Competency Leader; Business Development Leader

FLAVORS TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Manchester, NH  |  President and Chief Executive Officer  |  1992 - 1994

  • Turned around then six-year-old company that developed and manufactured a parallel processing computer and agent-based software environment for modeling and controlling complex systems in manufacturing, government and research. 

ATEX, INC.,

Bedford, Massachusetts  |  SVP, Operations (Executive Committee; Chair, Operations Committee)  |  1978 - 1989

  • Directed worldwide sales (direct and channel), field operations, technical support, marketing, business development, and alliances for $145 million high-end publishing systems business.

EDUCATION

MBA, Harvard Business School, 1978                                                                     
BA, Harvard College, cum laude, 1974

AFFILIATIONS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INTERESTS

Certified Primal Health Coach, 2016

Chair, Board of Trustees (past Treasurer), Cantata Singers, Boston, MA and Treasurer, Music on Norway Pond, Hancock, NH

Eucharistic Minister, Choir; Past: Co-chair, Rector Search Committee, Vestry Member, Clerk, All Saints’, Peterborough, NH

Board of Trustees, Chair (past), and Treasurer (past); Concord Community Music School, Concord, NH

Senior Warden, Treasurer, Clerk, Vestry Member, Choir, Teacher (past), Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, MA

Boards of Directors (past), 8 different venture or angel-backed technology companies; served two as interim CEO

Board of Directors (past), AdForce, Inc. (a CMGI company); Eliza Corp. (interactive voice services for health providers)

Member (past), New Hampshire Estate Planning Council

Singing Member and occasional soloist, Cantata Singers (Boston)               

Regional Finalist, Metropolitan Opera Auditions

Two Boston Marathons