Rick Ifland

Mr. Ifland has spent the past 30 years developing people, improving productivity and promoting quality on a worldwide basis as an executive manager.

Mr. Ifland founded ICS, a mortgage credit reporting company in 1987. The company grew into the second largest of over 2,000 companies in its industry, processing over 10,000 mortgage applications daily. Through its advanced, proprietary technology, predictive modeling and artificial intelligence, it served many of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage companies. In 1996, he sold ICS to Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF), the world’s largest title insurance company and part of the Fortune 500. Mr. Ifland remained an executive at Fidelity until 1999, when he chose to pursue full-time private equity investing. From 1999 to the present, he has invested in 27 private equity transactions.

Mr. Ifland has served on many for-profit and not-for-profit boards, including Chairman of the Board of Voice for Humanity and as a Trustees of Westmont College (where he was Chairman of both the Strategic Planning and Development committees and Chair of the recent $82 million capital campaign). Mr. Ifland holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business from Westmont College, an MBA from the University of Kentucky, a Master’s degree in International Law from Oxford University and a Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) for his work on elections in Afghanistan and Iraq and for his work on HIV/AIDS prevention throughout Africa.