Bio

Prior to Convergence Capital Partners, Rick founded Fuel Break Capital Partners, a national special situations investment and advisory firm which has sourced and closed on financing transactions in excess of $1 Billion and participated in a variety of bankruptcy, capital advisory, board representation and restructuring projects. Rick brings nearly 30 years of distressed investment, special situations capital advisory, M&A, bankruptcy and restructuring law, and operational experience. Prior to Fuel Break Capital Partners, Rick has served as a Principal and Head of Restructuring and Debt Capital Markets for Gemini Partners, a Los Angeles-based boutique merchant banking firm, as Principal, General Counsel and Head of Origination of Continental Plants, an industrial focused distressed debt investment firm, President, Licensing Ha-Lo Branded Solutions and C.O.O, Head of M&A for Creative Concepts in Advertising and as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of The Hilco/Great American Group (now Hilco Global and The Great American Group). Rick began his career in Chicago with Kirkland & Ellis and Schiff Hardin in their bankruptcy and restructuring groups. Rick received JD and MBA degrees from UCLA and graduated With Distinction from the Honors Program of the University of Michigan.