Biography

Rick Smith is an entrepreneur, connector, bestselling author and TED speaker with an eclectic range of accomplishments.

He is the Founder of CEO Next, LLC, working directly with current and recently retired public company Chief Executives for the last decade. He is also the Founder of Fast Radius, an Industry 4.0 company backed by UPS which is bringing unprecedented speed, scale and quality to additive manufacturing (industrial 3D printing production). He is a Senior Advisor for Avrox Technologies, a revolutionary biotechnology and beverage company.

Smith is the founder of World 50, the world's premier senior executive networking organization. World 50 contributors include Robert Redford, Condoleezza Rice, Bono, Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush, Francis Ford Coppola and more than 200 other iconic leaders. A majority of the Fortune Global 1000 are World 50 customers.