Richard Pickard, president of RJAC-10, is a founding board member of the National Corrosion Center at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He has served as Chairman, President or CFO for several banks during his career spanning more than 30 years.

He currently is a director on the board of CeMines, an intellectual property-based biotechnology company headquartered in Denver Colorado. The company focuses on molecular diagnostics using biomarkers, which recognize naturally occurring antibody patterns in the body for the detection of specific cancers in early states.

Pickard is founder of Crime Search, Inc. and is court qualified as a crime statistical analyst. He published the Houston Crime Index (1997-2002), a first-of-its-kind analysis of crime in a major U.S. city. The Houston Crime Index is a study and ranking of crime intensity for Houston and its neighboring areas.

Related affiliations include working with Texas Equusearch, a volunteer horse-mounted search and recovery team, and retired FBI agents, in analyzing crime patterns in the abduction of young girls in the Texas corridor. He has remained active in this research and has appeared on various TV shows.

His charitable work includes serving on the Board of Directors for Stand Up For Kids, a nationwide company devoted to finding and helping run-away teens in America. He also founded Seeds of Hope which collects and provides vegetable seeds to the poor in Mexico.

Pickard holds a BBA degree in Financial Management from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and an advanced degree in banking from the School of Banking, Madison, Wisconsin.

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Richard Pickard

President of RJAC-10