
VP Business Development
dwood@firstbusiness.com
Richard is responsible for new business development in Eastern Michigan and Ohio. He has over 38 years of asset-based lending experience, which includes 15 years at Walter E. Heller Co. and five years with LaSalle National Bank, ABN AMRO. The last 15 years he owned his own consulting business, which specialized in turnarounds and asset-based lending refinances. Richard attended Syracuse University with majors in Economics and Accounting.