David Richards is a serial entrepreneur with 14+ years experience starting and building innovative companies, including .dot (allthingsdot.com), RISEcx (risecx.com) and BLIS (acquired by Leavitt Partners).

Diverse experiences, include leading innovative technology projects for large international brands and organizations:

healthcare (Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Barnes Healthcare), medical device (Medtronic, Hologic, Getz Healthcare), pharmaceutical (Glaxo Smith Kline) non-profit/humanitarian aid (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, American Red Cross, UNICEF).

Mr. Richards actively leads teams focused on solutions in sales, marketing and education; changing passive relationships between companies and their prospective customers into active, consistent and engaging experiences that are meaningful, productive and profitable.

Key accomplishments include:

Mr. Richards has also co-founded Power2Work (P2W), a 501c3 non-profit that is committed to fixing education through supporting programs that teach skills leading to family wage jobs.

DAVID RICHARDSFounder, CEO RISEcx

National award winning diabetes patient education program for Kaiser Permanente.

Leader of digital transformation and education for: Kaiser Permanente, Hologic, Getz Healthcare,Barnes Healthcare, Ethicon.

1st Salesforce partner to connect patient education and engagement app from Health Cloud to Salesforce Community Cloud.

1st Microsoft health partner to drive dynamic patient education pathways via CRM connected platform.

National Award Winner for Best Course – eLearning Guild 2009, 2010, 2011.

Executive leader of development team with advanced healthcare platforms that integrate with EMR, Microsoft Health Bot, IBM Watson, and Salesforce Health Cloud and more.

Custom developed and internationally deployed platform for The International Red Cross used by 96mm+ volunteers worldwide.