Rick Swasey

Rick Swasey is a Northeastern University Senior Lecturer in Finance and a training consultant to financial institutions. He teaches various Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions Management courses on the undergraduate and graduate level at Northeastern, where he is a recipient of the University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award (five-time nominee) as well as a seven-time Best Teacher finalist in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society and a three-time Best Teacher award winner. In 2014, Rick was named to the College’s Teaching Hall of Fame.

For his institutional clients, he designs custom cases and coursework and delivers seminars addressing corporate and small enterprise financial and credit analysis, individual credit and cash flow analysis, guarantor analysis, individual and business income tax returns, writing for credit analysis and for bank reporting, computer modeled financial projections, corporate finance, capital markets and company valuation. Separately, he also engages in enterprise valuation and portfolio risk consulting for various local, regional, and global financial institutions.

Rick’s business experience includes four years of industrial marketing at ITT, ten years of banking at BankBoston, as well as two years at Fleet Bank. His banking experience includes venture capital, commercial lending, specialized and acquisition finance, credit  management, private banking, and management of bank officer training.

Rick holds an Honors Program B.S.B.A. from Northeastern University and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School,  where he was also a researcher and consulting case writer.