For the past 23 years Richard Sokolow created and managed global research departments for two leading multi-strategy, private investment funds — Elliott Management and Davidson Kempner Capital Management.
Richard Sokolow currently serves as a Senior Advisor to a multi-billion dollar Federally Funded Research and Development Center working on a diverse range of issues from securing digital currency and assets to finding effective reforms of the predominantly government funded US health care system. Richard leads a number of portfolio projects for a private investment fund including the development of a green data center that is being planned for on the site of a decommissioned coal generation facility.
Richard began his professional career working as a Washington, DC-based investigative reporter on projects for the New York Times Book Company, Sixty Minutes and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. Richard had founded and ran a corporate investigative firm, InterSource, which specialized in complex multi-national investigations involving fraud, business intelligence and litigation. Working with the New York City Police Foundation, InterSource organized in 1999 a groundbreaking conference on Securing the Cyber-Market Place that brought together practitioners from law enforcement and the private sector. Earlier in his career Richard had also worked as one of Ralph Nader’s, “Nader’s Raiders” working on environmental issues and as a community organizer. He had also worked for three years as a New York City Public High School teacher and had lived and worked in Guatemala where he led a community development project for a village in the country’s Petan region.
Richard was a co-founder and Board Chair for the All Stars Project, a privately supported, performance based development non-profit for inner city youth. He has also been involved in various third party and political reform efforts both in New York and nationally dating back to the early 1980s.
Richard lives in New York City with his wife and two children.