Richard Kelsey was born in 1941 in Joliet, Ill., and grew up in Joliet and Osage, Iowa. He graduated from Osage Community High School. Dick was awarded a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University in 1964 and an MBA from the University of Denver in 1973.
On graduating from Marquette, Dick joined the Peace Corp in Ecuador as a construction engineer until 1967. Returning stateside, he joined Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wis. as an Industrial equipment application engineer. He joined American Appraisal Co. in 1967 as a machinery appraiser where he remained until 2008 in their New York office as Area Manager, Executive Officer & Stockholder. From 2010 until the present he has been President of Paragon Business Valuation Services.
Dick has lived in Darien with his wife Beverly Fisk since 1987 and they have one son. He has been a SCORE mentor since 2009, belongs to the Darien Chamber of Commerce (Board Chairman 2012) and enjoys golf.
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