Dr. Rickard has 44 years of experience in financial and advanced technology organizations, all of it in management, oversight and technology development positions. He is a director and CEO of Till Capital, (TIL; TSX.V:TIL), which owns approximately 64% of Silver Predator’s outstanding shares, and is/has been an executive and director of several private companies. He was President and later Chief Scientific Officer of OptiMark Technologies, Inc. and served on its board. He was a co-inventor of the OptiMark transaction matching system and was instrumental in the development of this company from a start-up enterprise to an operating entity on the Pacific Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq market and the Osaka Securities Exchange, including the securing of over $350 million in investment capital from major investors in the U.S. and internationally. Prior to that, he was President of the brokerage firm Mitchum, Jones & Templeton.
He has authored/coauthored over 70 refereed technical publications in engineering, electronic market structure, matching algorithms and trading strategies, and has coauthored 11 issued patents and multiple additional patent applications. He has also served as an expert witness in multiple intellectual property litigations involving financial markets. He received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1975.
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