Management
Richie Hecker, Managing Director
Richie Hecker is a businessman in New York City. He has operated at the fusion of innovation and government for 25 years. He currently is a Partner of New York City, leading production of its NYC Crypto Summit. He previously led production of NYC Entrepreneur Week which brought together 70 groups and influencers to help build the NYC tech industry.
In prior lives, he took one company public, built and sold an ecommerce tech company and acquired distressed assets serving over 100MM users that had been worth over $1BN. He has served as an advisor to Berkshire Hathaway on technology and has advised governments and F100 companies around the world on innovation. He is proudly a troll an has written for WSJ, TechCruch, Fox, HuffPo and many other publications on government and innovation and has generated over 1.5 billion earned media impressions.