Mark Rickabaugh, CFA, married to Lynne Lundgren Rickabaugh, sons, Mark L. Rickabaugh and Samuel (Ben) Rickabaugh. 

Mr. Rickabaugh is currently the principal of Rickabaugh Management LLC, in Boca Grande, FL., a family office, and investment advisor, to various investors and non-profit institutions. His efforts are based on more than 45 years investment management experience as a portfolio manager and chief investment officer and a general love of the analysis of financial markets and individual securities. 

His previous experience includes: Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio at Anchor Capital Advisors, LLP, where he developed value investment strategy designed to outperform markets over individual cycles and long term through focus on value criteria for every investment along with improving business outlook. He developed a style for management of balanced portfolios that emphasized active management for both equity and bond portions of the portfolio. Started and managed Mid-Cap Strategy that grew from zero in 1995 to $6 Billion under management by 2007. 

He was the Executive Vice President and portfolio manager at Fort Hill Investors in Boston, MA. At Smith Barney, Harris, Upham, in NY, NY he was the Vice President and Portfolio Manager, a Member of the firms’ investment Policy Committee, and he managed the Smith Barney Equity Fund. At IBM Corporation in Philadelphia, PA he was a Systems Analyst and Marketing representative to Financial and Consulting industries. With the US Navy, USS Robert K Huntington (DD-781) he was a Deck Officer and Damage Control Assistant. 

He earned his MBA at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Class of 1963. He was one of the founders of Purdue Society for Individual Insight, the third college society in the US more dedicated to conservative principles. The first speakers were Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand.      

Mark is an avid sailboat racer in Peconic Bays, NY, bad golfer everywhere but enjoys the surroundings and people involved. He loves shooting adventures wherever, but particularly the UK.  He also partakes in all other types of exercise including: biking, swimming and walking.  He has been able to travel more since official retirement with many locations still on the list that will allow his family a greater knowledge and experience of the world. 

Reading fiction and non-fiction are hugely important to Mark; he always has several books going at once.