RICHARD P. ESSICK

Richard Essick owned a three office, travel agency from 1960 to 1969. For the next 11 years, he was Senior Travel Director and then Director of International Sales for Maritz Travel Co., a firm with $1,000,000,000.00 annual sales. Mr. Essick formed R.E. Productions, a firm which furnished sales training, films and point of purchase sales tools which he operated for 5 years. He sold the company and joined McDonnell Douglas as a section manager in their International Business Center working on McDonnell Douglas's counter trade program with foreign countries wishing to purchase their military aircraft. Mr. Essick became a commercial-industrial real estate broker in 1986. He joined Hilliker Corporation in 1993 and has been active in both leasing and sales.