Mr. Becker is presently Chief Operating Officer for McIlvanePartners, Inc., where he will also act as a Lead Consultant. Rich is best described as a lawyer who just doesn't act like a lawyer, mainly because he is a businessman first. He has over twenty-five years experience in business and corporate law with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. His main emphasis in the operational aspect of business, including sales, marketing, licensing, support, software development, channels of distribution, problem solving, and contracts. Rich has been a trial lawyer, prosecutor, and in-house counsel to a Fortune 500 company, where he was a member of the executive committee. Legal and consulting assignments have included business strategies, designing incentive pricing programs for channels, user friendly agreements, international negotiations compensation programs for direct sales and channels, developing channel structure and templates, conducting strategic planning sessions (with the added benefit of balancing the business and legal issues), designing selection and termination criteria and procedures, developing channel policies and procedure, developing implementation programs for channels, negotiations and strategies..

Rich has presented seminars in Channels of Distribution, Anti-trust for the Business Person, Contracts, Strategy Decision Processes, Negotiation Strategies and Tactics, Acquisitions for the Business Person and Confidentiality Agreements. He also taught Business Law at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management - Executive MBA Program and Balancing the Business and Legal Aspects of Channels of Distribution at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and the American Management Association.