Rick is the Chief Creative Officer and a founding partner of strategic branding agency CBX. With twenty years of expertise in consumer and retail branding, Rick is responsible for inspiring, directing and motivating creative teams to develop powerful design solutions.

Since helping establish the firm in 2003, Rick has played an integral role in expanding its client roster and has been the creative vision behind the rollout of numerous award-winning branding initiatives, most recently the successful U by Kotex line for Kimberly-Clark and a rebranding of Duane Reade’s private label portfolio.

Prior to founding CBX, Rick learned the importance of breakthrough creative while working at Milton Glaser, Gerstman+Meyers, LPK, and FutureBrand. Over the course of his accomplished career, he has contributed his branding expertise to such companies as Del Monte, Exxon Mobil, IBM, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Mars, and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company.

In recent years, Rick was also chosen as one of Graphic Design USA’s “People to Watch,” and  FastCompany’s “100 Most Creative People in Business.”