Richard Ford is a business executive based in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area of Florida. He is the founder of Stemwav[1] and former Chief Executive Officer of International Health Brands and its subsidiaries Rebel Lion and Zelenko Labs.[2]
History
Ford attended St. Paul's School in Sao Paulo, Brazil from August 1974 to May 1988. He completed a Bachelor of Science, Economics & Finance at Bentley University from 1988-1991. From 1994-1995, Ford studied for a Masters Degree in Business Administration, Management and Operations at Henley Business School.[3]
Career
Ford worked for DeRoyal from December 2014 to December 2020.[2:1]
COVID-19
On May 18, 2020, Ford completed a course called "COVID-19 Contact Tracing" through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[4] He served as a voting system technician for the Broward County Government during the 2020 United States presidential election in November 2020.[5]
According to Ford's LinkedIn profile, he received a dose of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021 and a "booster" dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in October 2021. He received multiple microcredentials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in November 2021.[6]
In December 2021, Ford joined Zelenko Labs as CEO, followed by International Health Brands in February 2022. He incorporated a branch of IHB in Florida on March 1, 2023.[7] He also became manager of Rebel Lion in April 2023. He left these positions in July 2023.[2:2]
Starting in August 2023, Ford has served as volunteer member of the speaker's bureau for Operation Underground Railroad.[5:1]
In October 2023, Ford participated in a disaster response exercise called Operation Convergent 2023, simulating the "very real possibility of runway mishaps, or a 'runway incursion'" at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.[5:2][8]
External links
The Team. Stemwav. Retrieved November 26, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.26-191336/https://stemwav.com/the-team ↩︎
Experience | Richard Ford. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 26, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.26-191250/https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbrazil/details/experience/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Education | Richard Ford. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 26, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.26-192203/https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbrazil/details/education/ ↩︎
Completion Certificate for COVID-19 Contact Tracing. (2020, May 18). Coursera. http://archive.today/2023.11.28-061854/https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/N6L2L49C8DTF?utm_source= ↩︎
Volunteering | Richard Ford. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 26, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.26-193057/https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbrazil/details/volunteering-experiences/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Licenses & certifications | Richard Ford. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 26, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.26-192226/https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbrazil/details/certifications/ ↩︎
International Health Brands, LLC. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Retrieved August 26, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230827033111/https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=INTERNATIONALHEALTHBRANDS M230000030850&aggregateId=forl-m23000003085-55c46755-42e6-4141-9a7f-da2abcbed036&searchTerm=INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BRANDS%2C LLC&listNameOrder=INTERNATIONALHEALTHBRANDS M230000030850 ↩︎
Nefzi, S. (2023, October 12). First responders put to the test in FLL aircraft emergency drill. WPLG. http://archive.today/2023.11.28-062658/https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/10/12/first-responders-put-to-the-test-in-fll-aircraft-emergency-drill/ ↩︎
