Dr. Rickard has over 50 years of experience in advanced technology and financial organizations, all of it in management and technology development positions. His engineering technical expertise includes signal processing, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy and expert systems, decision theory, and graphical knowledge representation and inference for computational intelligence.

He has additional expertise in multiple financial engineering disciplines, including transaction systems, market structures, financial analytics, data mining, derivatives pricing, risk analysis and trading strategies. He is an active researcher in the field of fuzzy systems theory and its applications.

He serves as a senior executive for and on the board of directors of several companies, both public and private. He also serves as an expert witness in intellectual property litigation for multiple companies and has consulted for multiple companies in the defense, financial, and mining industries.

He has authored over 80 technical publications in several branches of engineering and in the fields of electronic market structure, financial instruments, matching algorithms, and trading strategies, all of which have appeared in refereed technical journals, books, and conference proceedings. In addition, he has authored 11 issued patents and has several additional patents pending.

He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology