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Richard E.
Sims attended Cheyney University of Pennsylvania/1968, Bucknell
University/1970, National Credit Organzation/1970, and Foreign Credit
Insurance Association/1975 (while employed) which prepared him for a
career in the banking industry. He is an example of an American story that
bordered on the unlikely. Born in West Virginia and raised in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of five children, his parents instilled
the virtues of hard work, indomitable self-reliance and the belief that
what you say and do is who you are. After the preparatory period of his
life, he began his
career with
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a Commercial Credit
& Financial Analyst from February 1970 to April 1971; National Westminster
Bancorp NJ, Jersey City, NJ (Acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland) as a
Commercial Credit & Financial Analyst/Loan Division (6/71-5/72);
Administrator/Wall Street Section/Loan Division (5/72-11/73);
International Banking Officer/International Department (11/73-5/76).
After spending several years in private financial and information
management organizations, where he practiced analysis, marketing,
procurement, and commercial and international banking, he moved to the
public sector, by invitation of the Chief of Staff of former Mayor Kenneth
A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, to assist in the reorganization of fiscal
and management information systems, and preparing feasibility studies
which created strong foundations in fiscal and internal controls analysis
for policy development, and purchasing operations. He worked with other
organizations such as Philadelphia National Bank; Newark Board of
Education of New Jersey; Chase Manhattan Bank; New Jersey Departments of
Commerce, Energy and Economic Development; New Jersey Department of Human
Services and the New Jersey Supreme Courts’ Administrative Office of the
Courts during the period of 1974 to the present.
Privately, he
co-founded and is the CFO of Impact Developers and Management, LLC, United
Community Partners, Inc., and Community Developers Group, which were
organized beginning in 2002, as real estate development and management
partnerships
with specialties in
solar and concrete systems.
His development efforts were instrumental in establishing a thirteen store
shopping mall in Trenton, New Jersey. Currently, his companies are
involved in co-development projects involving thirty square blocks of
redevelopment of mix-use commercial and residential housing in Trenton,
New Jersey, and a new community service center in Irvington, New Jersey.
The magnitude of those projects approaches $75 to 100 million dollars. He
took this path of activity in order to try to do something useful beyond
fulfilling his own personal ambitions.
To further that
course of action Mr. Sims is active in civic and fraternal programs
associated with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., The Men of BACA, and The
New Jersey Alliance for Good Government, as a fiscal manager, as well as
Cheyney University’s Alumni Association
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