RICHARD P. ESSICK

Richard Essick owned three travel agencies 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.