Founders

A builder at heart, Rick brings three decades of experience navigating the intersection of land, law, and long-horizon thinking — skills that now drive how Obsidian Arrowhead identifies and secures the right sites for next-generation data infrastructure.

Rick began his career in corporate lending, spending seven years with regional banks across Florida where he developed a sharp instinct for evaluating risk, capital structure, and the financial feasibility of complex projects — a foundation that would inform every business decision that followed.

In 1990, he founded his first outdoor advertising company, eventually building and scaling multiple enterprises within the Out of Home industry. That entrepreneurial run gave him a practitioner's understanding of permitting, public-facing development, and the patience required to move projects through contested regulatory environments.

He then joined DeBartolo Development, one of the country's preeminent real estate development firms, where he spent three years in land acquisition. His work ranged from negotiating directly with multi-generational family farms to engaging corporate landholders — assembling large-format retail power center sites and shepherding them through the full entitlement process.

Returning to the Out of Home space, Rick carved out a specialty in municipal ordinance challenges, representing clients in jurisdictions from Miami to North Dakota. This chapter sharpened his ability to work within — and constructively push against — local regulatory frameworks, building relationships across a wide geographic and political landscape.

These converging disciplines led naturally to the co-founding of Obsidian Arrowhead. Rick's role centers on what he has always done best: finding the right land, building the relationships needed to control it, and guiding sites through the entitlement process. Combined with the company's proprietary siting methodology, Rick ensures that every data center project is positioned to operate sustainably, efficiently, and with the smallest possible footprint on the communities it enters.