Dave Rickard was named Executive Vice President, Revenue Management and Strategy in November 2015 and became Executive Vice President, Strategy, Insights and Financial Planning in February 2019. In his role as Executive Vice President, Strategy, Dave holds responsibility for all strategy work, including exploring opportunities with new businesses. In his role as Executive Vice President, Insights and Financial Planning, Dave is responsible for enhancing collaboration between the financial planning and analysis team and the insights and analytics team. Dave and his team optimize profitability across all segments by providing end-to-end oversight of margin and pricing decisions, partnering with Merchandising and Sales.
Prior to joining US Foods, Dave most recently served as Vice President with Uline, a leading distributor of shipping, industrial and packaging materials. Before joining Uline, he served as Partner and Managing Director in The Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office. Dave led BCG's B2B pricing practice, which he helped build into a core competency at BCG, serving many well-known B2B clients. Over his 17-year tenure at BCG, Dave also led many strategy, operations management and sales strategy engagements with Fortune 500 clients. Dave began his career with Charles River Associates, a global economic consulting firm.
Dave received an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, a BA in Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a General Course Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics in Great Britain.