John Rice

John Rice has extensive experience as a CEO, Lead Negotiator, Turnaround Expert, Business Financier and Crisis Management Executive/Consultant. Prior to becoming Chair and CEO of Sigma Labs, he was an interim CEO who turned around a Coca-Cola Bottling Company. As a CEO, Mr. Rice has run a variety of companies in diverse business sectors including design and manufacture of high-end jet engine test equipment for the U.S. Air Force as well as chaff dispensers for F16s, software for Naval warfare modeling exercises, software systems for controlling warehouse distribution systems, development of medical radio-isotopes, and cancer detection tomographic devices.

As a member of corporate boards of directors, Mr. Rice has led crisis management and financing negotiations for companies in the defense contracting industry, most recently in two unconnected companies: one that developed equipment that detects nuclear devices concealed in industrial shipments to the United States; the other developing advanced cybersecurity tools.

As an investor, Mr. Rice worked as a lead negotiator and operations expert in venture syndicates that built enterprises in cable TV, FM radio and Spanish-language TV and radio. He has served on a number of boards of directors. Currently, in addition to Sigma Labs, Mr. Rice is a Director of New Mexico Angels, Inc., a New Mexico-based group of accredited individual angel investors, and Akal Security, Inc. Mr. Rice is an honors graduate of Harvard College. He is an avid reader, expert skier, dedicated time trial cyclist, and a pathetic golfer.