Richard Sheffield has been in the financial services industry for 35 years and has owned a financial services company for 27 years. He was in bank management for 6 years before that. And he was in the retail industry for 7 years before that.
He and his wife, Cheryl created Sheffield Spice & Tea Co. in 2012. They opened for business almost 5 years ago and have had their store website up for over 2 years. Sales from both brick and mortar and their site have been growing steadily from day 1. He handles all the tech, website and other marketing, advertising and other functions for their company. He creates and maintains all product content for the site as well as handles all SEO and Social Media.
Richard has an undergraduate business degree in marketing from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and an MBA in finance with minors in marketing and advertising and international business
In his current financial services business, he consults to family-held and closely-held businesses on creating, running then succeeding the business to the next generation or other options.
He helped start and run a Family Business Center at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, where these same family business principles were taught to the companies.
Richard created and taught numerous other seminars, classes, lectures other events, and was a popular speaker on several Speakers Bureaus over the years.