Rich has more than two decades of public relations experience, including work in corporate, agency, government and not-for-profit settings.  He has an excellent reputation as a media relations strategist.  Rich has conceived and implemented successful communications programs for organizations in a wide range of industries, including real estate, finance, energy, health, law, technology, trade associations and others. 

He has extensive expertise in media relations, crisis communications, issue management and corporate communications, and has provided both consulting services and content for a number of corporate and advocacy web sites. 

Prior to joining The Marino Organization, Rich served as communications director at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.  Before that, he was a managing director at The Torrenzano Group, a financial PR and investor relations firm, and earlier served as media relations director at Con Edison.  During the administration of New York State Governor Mario M. Cuomo, Rich was director of communications for the state Labor Department and later served as press officer to the governor. 

Rich earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Fordham University, in The Bronx,
New York.