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Richard Magid started SoundBoard Consulting Group, LLC in the Spring of 2000 to work more closely with established business leaders after a twenty year career that included successes in international trade finance, commodities trading, and entrepreneurship. Over the last 12 years SoundBoard has worked with over 250 small to mid-sized entrepreneurial businesses. Richard has a strong financial perspective that stems from his banking career in which he managed the risk on a loan portfolio in excess of $3 billion. His financial skills are compounded by his tenure as a commodities trader, managing his own accounts in trading options and futures on the New York Board of Trade (formerly the Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa Exchange). Along the way, Richard built and sold a wholesale/retail food business and was integral in securing financing for the start-up of a staffing company. He is also the author of the recently published book Small Shifts Toward Collaborative Freedom. His charity work includes
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 3 investors at SoundBoard Venture Fund are tracked.
- • 3 investors hold the Founding Investor role in VCSift. Richard Magid is one of them.
- • 19 investors are based in Montclair, New Jersey, United States.
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- Montclair, US
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