Management & Board of Advisors
Rick Smith, Director of Client Services
Rick Smith directs client services at Newstex. He is responsible for making certain that Newstex customers are delighted with the Content On Demand and Blogs On Demand services they rely on every day. He focuses on newsfeed delivery and integration issues as one of his most important functions.
In his career, Rick has served in a wide variety of high profile roles in online marketing and content delivery for both startup companies and established organizations including Reuters, Multex, Market Guide, TD Waterhouse, and a venture that later became About.com.
Rick applies his knowledge of web content and online marketing to a variety of outside interests. He serves as a consultant, instructor, information architect, and web designer for a community college and political and human rights organizations.
Although you would never know it to look at him, Rick was born and raised on a reservation in Montana and is a great great grand nephew of Sitting Bull. He is an alumnus of the University of Montana where he studied Political Science and Accounting. In his spare time, Rick and his wife spend time watching movies, collecting rocks, traveling, and karaoke. He resides in Bozeman, Montana.