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26th percentile
54th percentile
Serial founder and exited entrepreneur now running Academy Wealth Advisers RIA
Credibility
Traction · 42th percentile
- Past co-founder of RIMIRO Corporation, a waste management holding company that grew to 300 employees and 8 subsidiaries.
- RIMIRO Corporation was merged into Waste Management, Inc., representing a confirmed acquisition exit with no disclosed price.
- Minuteman Lubricants, where Rick served as President and Shareholder, was sold to Agip Petroli, SpA in a confirmed acquisition with no disclosed price.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Current founder and President of Academy Wealth Advisers, an RIA firm he has led since its founding in 2011.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of RIMIRO Corporation, a waste management holding company that grew to 300 employees and 8 subsidiaries.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)RIMIRO Corporation was co-founded with other shareholders, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)RIMIRO Corporation was merged into Waste Management, Inc., representing a confirmed acquisition exit with no disclosed price.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Minuteman Lubricants, where Rick served as President and Shareholder, was sold to Agip Petroli, SpA in a confirmed acquisition with no disclosed price.
Investor score
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Over 30 years of investment experience spanning private equity, real estate, and wealth management, credited at 15 years for scoring purposes.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in rooms with fellow veteran founders, business owners planning exits, and early-stage fund managers who'd value your operational and M&A credibility. Dinners and roundtables focused on wealth management thought leadership and RIA practice growth would help you build the public profile your experience deserves. Targeted intro sessions with USMC and Naval Academy alumni networks in the Mid-Atlantic would directly accelerate referral flow into Academy Wealth Advisers.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA USMC and Naval Academy alumni founder dinner in Philadelphia for warm referrals to fellow veterans approaching retirement who need a trusted RIA
- positioningA roundtable for Mid-Atlantic business owners planning exits, where Rick can share firsthand lessons from the RIMIRO-Waste Management merger and Minuteman Lubricants sale as a credibility anchor
- positioningA dinner for independent RIA founders and wealth advisors to workshop a 90-day LinkedIn and content calendar strategy for attracting high-net-worth clients through investment commentary
- fundraisingA happy hour for seasoned operators-turned-angels and emerging fund GPs to explore formalizing deal flow and LP relationships built on M&A and operational track records
- positioningA small workshop for Five Star Professional award recipients and top-ranked RIAs on converting third-party endorsements and award recognition into high-converting website and social proof
- tacticalA tactical lunch for Philadelphia-area RIA and financial services founders to share SEO playbooks and website conversion strategies for high-net-worth client acquisition in the Bucks County market
- hiringA roundtable for solo RIA founders in the Mid-Atlantic on when and how to make the first junior advisor hire to scale capacity without diluting client experience