RICHARD D. POCRASS

Richard Pocrass has more than thirty-five years of extensive marketing and product development experience in the computer and telecommunications industries. When Chocolates à la Carte ® was established in 1986, Richard was instrumental in the initial development. Richard was appointed as CEO of Chocolates à la Carte ® in 1989. He is responsible for financial, marketing and strategic planning duties.

Previously, for seventeen years, Richard was the principal and managing partner of an executive search firm, Pocrass Associates. He also served as president of Health Technology, Inc., which provided systems consulting for computerized fraud and abuse systems. Additionally, he was instrumental in the development of electronic banking systems to the bank, petroleum and retail industries for Data Source Corporation (subsidiary Hercules, Inc.). Other positions were as regional manager for NCR Corporation and as vice president marketing for a nuclear instrumentation firm, Nanosecond Systems.

Richard has a B.S. in mathematics, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and has studied personnel and organizational development at UCLA on the graduate level. He is a member of the Chief Executive Officers Club, California Executive Recruiters Association, and Los Angeles Rotary Club. Richard is on the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Mission College Foundation, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Foundation, Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) and the U.S. Pastry Alliance.

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