At SIZE
Rick focuses on helping early stage and growing companies build strong people foundations that drive long-term success. At SIZE, he works with leadership teams to address core HR fundamentals such as talent planning, total rewards strategies grounded in market data, and scalable processes that foster growth. Rick begins by listening to understand each client’s most critical needs, builds trust with leadership, and designs practical people solutions that solve immediate challenges while positioning the company to scale.
Bio
Rick Martino’s career in Human Resources has spanned 35+ years, 18 of those years as the top HR leader, and a business leader, in organizations in very different industries including technology, consulting, consumer electronics, and non-profit. He has earned the distinction of being a high-trust, straight talk senior executive, partner, coach, and advisor to CEO’s, executive leadership teams, and Boards. He is currently engaged in supporting organizations to build both strategic and operational HR excellence, and is a coach and mentor to senior leaders helping them build a people experience that attracts, retains, and inspires the talent necessary to achieve business success.
Throughout his career he has successfully driven transformation and change. As Chief People Officer at Bose Corporation, he had responsibility talent strategy and execution as well as internal communications, corporate operations, security, community relations and environmental health and safety. He was member of the Bose Executive, Benefits, Real Estate, and Sustainability Steering committees. At IBM, as a member of IBM’s Senior Management Group, he held several executive leadership positions including Vice President of Talent, where he had enterprise responsibility for talent planning and acquisition, learning, diversity, management development, HRIT, and international mobility. As Chief People Officer at Bearing Point, he led all HR aspects of the complex sale of a public, $3B, 15,000 person global consulting organization.
Rick earned an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Political Science from American University. He served as a member of the New England Board of the March of Dimes from 2013 to 2018. He is currently a member of the American University School of Public Affairs Board of Advisors.