Tag: richard smith
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Smith resigns as Cascade/WA Bikes Executive Director
Richard Smith has resigned after nearly three years as Executive Director of Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes. The news comes as the sister organizations are operating with half their usual staff and cancelled nearly all their major events this year due to the outbreak. Before Smith joined as ED in September 2017, the organizations…
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With the fate of events uncertain, Cascade cuts half its staff and appeals for donations
Cascade Bicycle Club moved Friday to furlough half its staff in what leaders describe as an effort to save the club, which is marking its 50-year anniversary this year. “We want to make sure it’s around for another 50 years,” said Executive Director Richard Smith. “It became clear that we had to plan for the…
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Cascade/WA Bikes have a new Executive Director: Richard Smith
Richard Smith will be the new Executive Director of Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes, the organizations announced Friday Smith comes from Microsoft, and the press release says he was “the executive sponsor of his division’s Diversity & Inclusion efforts” and has worked as a board member for the Seattle Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes…
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