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Before joining REthink, Andy was the Executive Vice President of the Harry Walker Agency (HWA), a speakers’ agency based out of New York. There, Andy ran the Speaker Management and Contracts Department. HWA represents many of the world’s foremost speakers, including President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, Vice President’s Gore and Cheney, Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Michael Eisner, David Stern, Steve Forbes, Shaquille O’Neal, and many others. In his role at HWA, he had the opportunity to work closely with these distinguished speakers. His time running the Speaker Management Department took him to 26 countries and 27 US States.
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In 1993 Rick began his career in retail development at Crate & Barrel, responsible for all aspects of new store development, including site selection, lease negotiation, design, construction, and store openings most notably the flagship store on Madison Avenue in New York, NY. Subsequently he became the Director of Fisher Development’s Chicago Office, where he managed store develop for Gap and Williams – Sonoma including the award winning 30,000-square-foot flagship Pottery Barn store in Chicago, IL.
As Vice President at TrizecHahn Development Corporation, Rick was instrumental in creating the $150 MM Fashion Outlet of Las Vegas, the $500 MM luxury shopping destination Desert Passage on “The Strip” in Las Vegas, the re-birth of downtown Pasadena with the $300 MM mixed – use Paseo Colorado; and found balance between retailers and the Academy Awards at the billion-dollar hotel/entertainment complex, Hollywood & Highland.
In 2001, Rick became managing partner of Golden Spike Development, the company he founded to focus on innovative urban infill projects. Here, he
successfully led the development of residential lofts in the trendy San Diego neighborhood of Hillcrest, mixed – use condos in Milwaukee, WI. Rick then transformed the Nob Hill neighborhood in Albuquerque, NM through paradigm shifting row houses, lofts, the luxury LEED Platinum apartments and a state of the art four story climate controlled self-storage facility.
In 2005 he merged Golden Spike with Pacific Construction Services; a Chicago based general contracting firm averaging $30 MM in revenue annually to create a well-balanced full service real estate company.
In late 2019 Rick sold Pacific and created REthink, a boutique consulting firm that combines his creativity, passion and experience to provide owner’s with valuable representation and strong project management throughout the entire development process.
