This blog highlights topics of risk found in the news. It is maintained in Dave’s honor by his family.
Risk Solutions Group was a risk management firm founded in 1989 by Kyle Dave Rickles.
Dave was born in Boaz, Alabama on January 19, 1945 to the late Guy and Thelma Rickles (Richardson). He attended Boaz Elementary School and Boaz High School.
Dave graduated from Auburn University in 1969 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He first worked as a Fire Protection Engineer in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, London, England, and Detroit.
In 1977, he moved with his family to Naperville, IL, employed as an Account Executive, then Vice-President for commercial insurance companies.
In 1989 Dave incorporated his own risk management company, Risk Solutions Group, Inc., retiring in 2012.
Dave enjoyed fixing/building, gardening, listening to the Blues, and especially building and maintaining his fish ponds in Illinois. When his granddaughters arrived, he enjoyed nothing more than being in their company.
Dave passed away surrounded by his family on September 16, 2017.
Dave and Veronica Rickles