Rick Hinton President & CEO
Rick founded Red Hill Group in order to develop new ways to apply the power of markets and technology to creatively solve old problems involving economic, political, and financial decision making. The company's initial online offering was casualobserver.net (now predictionxchange.com), a political prediction market that achieved national attention during the 2006 midterm elections. Created to test the “Wisdom of Crowds” theory in the world of politics, the site eclipsed one of the leading polling organizations in accuracy. Prior to Red Hill Group, Rick was a founding partner with a consulting firm that built custom investment and planning software tools using advanced modeling and simulation technologies based on historic stock market and other financial data.
Rick has appeared on the CBS Evening News , the Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR and in publications such as National Journal , Washington Business Journal , Slate.com and the Daily Record . He has spoken at industry events including the 2007 Politics Online Conference sponsored by the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
Rick has held senior management roles at netDecide Corporation, a leading provider of wealth management software, as well as Ernst & Young and KPMG. He received a Masters of Business Administration degree from the George Washington University and a Bachelors degree in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland. Rick is active in charitable causes and is a board member of the Susie Kim Foundation for cancer research, and the Kentlands 5k Race Committee.
Charlotte Pelliccia Chief Marketing Officer
Charlotte has over fifteen years of corporate communications and public relations experience in the software industry and has held leadership roles at large publicly-traded companies, small privately-held startups, and at public relations agencies.
As senior vice president of marketing at netDecide, a wealth management software company targeting large financial institutions, Charlotte managed corporate messaging and branding, and developed and executed corporate communications programs. She was responsible for all public relations, analyst relations, web site development, collateral, events, direct mail, partner marketing, sales support and user group programs. She joined netDecide from FitzGerald Communications where, as senior vice president of the Washington, D.C. office, she contributed to the four-fold growth of the office and provided strategic planning, corporate positioning and media strategy for FitzGerald’s high-technology clients. Prior to FitzGerald, Charlotte served as director of corporate communications for Manugistics, a supply chain management software company. Additional high-technology communications experience includes senior-level roles at Oracle Corporation and Copithorne & Bellows in San Francisco, servicing clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Wells Fargo Bank, Baan, VeriFone, Checkpoint, and NeXT Software.
Charlotte is President-elect and serves on the Board of Directors for Women in Technology (WIT). She was a founding member of the Potomac Chapter of Women in Technology International (WITI), and an editorial board member of Potomac Tech Journal. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s degree with High Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia.