Chairman and CEO
David Richter is Chairman and CEO of Richter Capital LLC, an asset management firm he founded in 2017. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Pernix Group, Inc., an international construction contractor. Before founding Richter Capital, he spent 22 years at global construction management firm Hill International, Inc. (NYSE:HIL), rising from General Counsel to Group President to COO and eventually to CEO. During that time, the company's revenues grew from less than $20 million to more than $600 million annually. Before joining Hill, he was an attorney in the New York City office of the global law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Richter earned his B.S. in management, his B.S.E. in civil engineering and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Sc. in major program management from the University of Oxford, his M.P.A. in American politics and government from Harvard University, and his M.S. in civil engineering from Columbia University.
Richter is a Professional Engineer, a Project Management Professional, a Chartered Construction Manager and a Fellow of both the Construction Management Association of America and the Chartered Institute of Building. He is also a member of the bars of New York, New Jersey and the U.S. Supreme Court.