As Regional Director, Rick leads all sales initiatives for the Eastern US, and has served in this role since joining Microsoft in January 2006. His division is responsible for driving ad revenue across Microsoft platforms, including The MSN Network, Live Search, Xbox, Office Online, Windows Mobile and Microsoft IPTV. Rick oversees sales offices in New York and Boston, and also heads Microsoft´s US Hispanic advertising efforts, managing a national sales team for MSN Latino.

Rick is a 16-year veteran of advertising & media sales. Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent four and a half years at Yahoo, last serving as Director of Strategic Accounts. Prior to Yahoo, he was the East Coast Sales Director at Forbes.com. Rick began his media career in print sales at Ziff-Davis Publishing, which led to his first online job as a Regional Manager with ZDNet, and he’s continued working in digital for the last 11 years.

Rick is active in the advertising community and also serves on the Digital Action committee of The ADVERTISING Club of New York and is a Board Trustee for Pan Asian Repertory, a non-profit theatre company in NYC. Rick holds a BA from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Long Island with his wife and their three daughters.