Professional History

Richard A. Reck is the founder and President of Business Strategy Advisors LLC (BSA), a business strategy consultancy that focuses on serving software, IT services, and information services companies.

He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and had been a partner with KPMG LLP, a Big Four CPA firm, for nearly 30 years.  Over the years, he had a variety of significant KPMG responsibilities, including: 

• National Industry Director – Software and Information Services Practice
• National Partner-in-Charge – Software Strategic Consulting Practice
• Midwest Partner-in-Charge – Software, Internet & Information Services Practice
• Partner-in-Charge – Illinois High Tech Practice
• Partner-in-Charge – Illinois Bankruptcy Practice
• Partner-in-Charge – Illinois High Tech Awards Program

Over the years, Mr. Reck served a variety of clients, both publicly traded and private, from young, entrepreneurial ventures to well established multinational corporations, including: 

Mr. Reck is a member of the board of directors of Merge Technologies (MRGE), a public health care software and information company; Greenbrier & Russel, a private IT services company with 500 employees and offices in 8 cities across the United States where he serves as Chairman; Advanced Life Sciences (ADLS), a public biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs in the areas of infectious disease, inflammation, and oncology; Interactive Intelligence (ININ), a public communications software company that provides contact center and IP telephony products and services; LiquidGeneration, a private internet media company; and Sivox Technologies, a private call center agent quality and training software company.   He is also a board member of the Illinois IT Association, the Illinois Technology Development Alliance, Journeys in Film, and the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative which are not-for-profit corporations. 

Mr. Reck received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from DePauw University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.  Prior to joining KPMG, Mr. Reck was a systems analyst/programmer in management information systems for two large NYSE companies.  He is a certified public accountant in the states of Michigan and Illinois and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois CPA Society, the Technology Executives’ Club, and the Chicago Software Association.  He has served as Chairman of the Illinois Software Association and is the founder of the Software Financial Executives Forum.  He has been listed in "Who's Who In The Computer Industry," as one of Crain’s Chicago Business “Chicago’s 100 Most Influential Technology Players,” in Crain’s “Who’s Who of Chicago Business,”  and listed among the top 100 people of Chicago’s high tech economy by I-Street. 

He has been a frequent speaker on technical and financial issues involving accounting, auditing, financings and public offerings, mergers & acquisitions, and strategy throughout the United States and Canada for the SIIA, ITAA, YPO, WPO, ICPAS, and other professional and trade associations.

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