Richard Wilson is the founder and President of the Accredited Certification Institute (ACI). Richard is also head of the 110,000 person Hedge Fund Group and 115,000 member Private Equity Investment Group associations. Due to the realization that most professionals receive very little if any practical training from their employer or school within their specific area of work Richard helped create the Accredited Certification Institute (ACI). The mission of the Accredited Certification Institute (ACI) is to provide practical online training and certification programs for niche professions and industries so that teams or individual professionals may learn only what is relevant and practical instead of traditional and generic. Richard is a frequent speaker at conferences and he presents within his own full day training workshops every year within cities such as New York, Singapore, London, Brussels, San Francisco, Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, Boca Raton, and Hong Kong. Richard is the author of six books and he has written and published over 5,000 articles that have been read by over 20,000,000 professionals in the business and finance industries. Richard has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Oregon State University, an M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Portland, and he has completed master’s level research and coursework on the psychology of influence at Harvard University within their ALM department.