About Rick

Rick Rickertsen is Managing Partner of Pine Creek Partners.  Pine Creek manages a $50 million private equity fund with the goal of backing entrepreneurial executives in management buyout transactions. Prior to founding Pine Creek, Rick was the Chief Operating Officer of Thayer Capital and the founding partner of Thayer’s three corporate buyout funds totaling over $1.5 billion. In his twenty year career in the management buyout world, he has lead more than 50 buyouts, including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and SAGA Software. As a director and former Chairman of the Board of several publicly-traded companies, Rick works closely with corporate managers to help them select their strategy, realize their goals, and maximize their equity returns. He is a Director of Convera Corporation (NASDAQ- CNVR), Homeland Security Capital Corp, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ - "MSTR"), United Agri-Products (NASDAQ - "UAPH") and serves on the Board of Semester-at-Sea. He is the author  of two books and is a contributing writer to the Washington Business Journal. He received his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Science with distinction in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. Mr. Rickertsen is a former member of the Young Presidents Organization.