Rick Aubry  
President & Executive Director, Rubicon Programs Inc.

Rick Aubry, Ph.D., is the President and Executive Director of Rubicon Programs Inc. in Richmond, California, a non-profit organization that provides services to over 3,000 people annually who are homeless, very low income and living with disabilities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Rick has been the director since 1986, overseeing the growth of the agency from $980,000 to over $14 million in annual revenues in 2004.

Rick is an adjunct faculty member and Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he is a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation. He is one of the co-authors of Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income (Jossey Bass, 2004)
Rick’s work at Rubicon has been cited in the Harvard Business Review, the Brookings Institute Journal, and the New York Times.

Rick served as the chair of the Contra Costa Contractors Alliance, representing non-profit agencies, as vice-president of the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies, as a leadership board member of the United Way of the Bay Area, and is a founding board member of the West County Business Development Center.

Rick worked as a therapist, clinical supervisor and program manager in Georgia and California before Rubicon Programs. Rick is a New York Regents Scholar, earned his BA from Syracuse University, MA in Psychology from West Georgia University, and Ph.D. in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. Rick is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

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