Rick Moss

Along with partners Al McClain and Santi Briglia, Rick Moss is responsible for conceiving and building RetailWire.com.

• Rick’s career in retail trade communications stretches back to 1981 with the start-up of Retail Insights, a ground-breaking video trade magazine. He headed the production and design team for that series of programs until 1993, when, along with partner Santi Briglia, he formed Further Media, a communications design company.
• With Further Media, Moss and Briglia produced a diversity of b2b communications for the likes of IBM, CMP/InformationWeek, Dean Foods, Ralston Purina and GE. Although primarily concentrated on web design and management, Further Media also designed for video, print and interactive disk.
• In 1998, out of a partnership between Further Media and Al McClain’s Media Connection, came IdeaBeat.com — the retail industry’s most innovative online community. Rick served as President, overseeing content and strategic partnerships.

Rick has also been a contributor to blogs and news publications, typically writing on the impact of future technologies. His opinion pieces have appeared in USA Today and Forbes.com.

He is the author of three novels: the speculative fiction thriller, Ebocloud (2013). Tellers (2016), about a tragedy that befalls a Hudson Valley farming collective, and Impossible Figures (2020), a satirical exploration of the relationship between art and science.

Rick’s writing, artwork and musical pursuits are showcased on his website: rickmoss.art

Rick resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Catherine. They have two grown daughters, Alison and Genna.