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​RICHARD MCCASKILL
CO-FOUNDER + CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER

Richard McCaskill is the co-founder of Fruition Consulting, the event management, business development and intellectual property management firm based in San Diego. Richard’s insatiable appetite for culture, history, and information has given him a unique perspective to approaching business.

Richard started his entrepreneurial journey at an early age but honed his leadership skills by joining the U.S. Marine Corps elite Joint Special Forces team ANGLICO as an intelligence liaison and communication specialist.

Richard leverages his training and expertise to build strong relationships with clients by identifying and developing strategies that drive results.

Richard is a creator of impactful brands to include:

• Executive Doula Agency - Founding member and Chief of Staff of an organization that support mothers in the workplace so that they thrive in their careers and motherhood.
• Courel - Established a Joint Venture with Courel, which represents most of the industry sectors in Senegal, Africa. The venture is focused on developing small businesses through micro private equity and digital skills.  
• Recon Recycling – Founder of the an award-winning environmental firm, responsible for advocating change to the recycling laws in the City of San Diego (AB939) that would have excluded small recycling companies from participating in service fee collections.
• New Century Soul Records – Responsible for grooming local musicians into successful national acts, performing over 600 live shows in a four-year period. This led to original music being published on national television shows.
• ​Juke Joint Café – Created and secured private equity funding for the only African American owned jazz supper club in San Diego’s Gaslamp District at that time, which launched two-time Grammy Award Winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Gregory Porter.

Richard currently co-chairs the Small Business Opportunities Advisory Panel for the California Air Resources Board. The Board represents 3.4 million small businesses in the State of California.
 
Richard has always been highly motivated with a sixth sense for forecasting business trends.  He utilizes these skillsets to lead Fruitions’ business development and intellectual property development divisions.
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Richard evokes passion, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, leveraging history to foretell the future.