Rick Aubry, Ph.D.

President, Rubicon Programs Inc.

Rick Aubry, Ph.D., is the President of Rubicon Programs Inc., one of America’s pre-eminent non-profit organizations that has had a significant and measured impact on the lives of over 40,000 people confronting homelessness, poverty and the challenges of living with mental health disabilities.  Rubicon is a five-time winner of the Fast Company Magazine “Social Capitalist Award” for its impact and innovation in addressing these issues.  Rick has been Rubicon’s leader since 1986, overseeing the growth of the agency from a staff of 12 serving a handful of clients with a $980,000 annual budget to an organization serving more than 4,000 people annually with over 250 full time staff and over $16 million in annual revenues in 2007. 
 
Rick is a faculty member and Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is also a fellow 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 has also authored several Stanford case studies on social entrepreneurial organizations. 

Rick was selected in 2001 by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation as one of the world’s leading Social Entrepreneurs and as one of the inaugural Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellows.  Since 2001 he has regularly presented the work of Rubicon, the Schwab Foundation and social entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.  Rick is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Program for Nonprofit Leaders.  He lives with his wife and two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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