Rick Aronstein

Rick Aronstein is a Partner at True Platform, a position they have held since January 2017. Prior to that, they served as Vice President, Head of Product Recruiting at AC Lion Digital Media Executive Search from January 2013 to December 2017. Rick was also Vice President Product Management at About.com from January 2005 to December 2010, and Principal Product Manager at AOL Entertainment from January 2002 to December 2005.

Rick has successfully led executive retained search engagements with top-tier venture capital and private equity backed technology companies. Rick has placed product and UX superstars, partnering with F500s, public, venture, and private equity clients. Roles they have filled include Chief Product Officers, Chief Technology Officers, VPs Product, and UX, and Artificial Intelligence. Their specialization is in software and SAAS, media, consumer internet, and e-commerce.

Rick served as a founding member of the Diversity & Inclusion Task Force. As a Partner in the Product, Data, and Technology practice, they led recruitment teams while maintaining execution focus. Rick has delivered top talent to happy clients.

Rick Aronstein has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Communications from the Annenberg School and Marketing from Wharton. Rick also has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. Rick is a certified ScrumMaster from the Scrum Alliance and has continuing education in User Experience Design, Mobile Product Strategy, and Social Marketing from General Assembly in New York. Rick is also certified in Agile Project Management.

Some of their coworkers include Phil Diamond - Partner, Ariele Donahue Fleming - Partner, and Nick Pachetti - Partner, Search. Their manager is Joe Riggione, Co-CEO.