Buena Vista Resources, Members

Jennifer DuBord - Matamoros, Mexico 

RIchard H. Ward - Buena Vista, CO 

Partnering Resources

David Lightfoot - Chesapeake Resource Group -Annapolis, MD  

Wendell Landin Ph.D - Clarus Safety Consulting, LLC - Appleton, WI

Scott Chisholm - Highlands Software Technologies Corp.

 Richard Ward - Buena Vista, CO – Principal & Managing Member

Rick’s working history includes 38 years in the printing and paper industry. Rick worked 17 years in Security Printing as Vice President - Marketing at ContinuForms, Inc. He has served as the Director of Training of the MICR Institute, a member of the ANSI X9.100 Committee and a contributor to the PSDA (formerly DMIA) Future of the Forms Industry Report and has consulted with various printing operations.

Rick’s consulting led to his association with Appleton Papers where he originally worked with Appleton’s printing customers performing “operational reviews” for companies in the USA and Canada. Rick moved on to become a Product Manager and then part of the Central Marketing Team that developed Appleton Papers’ Security business. Rick spent the last 7 years in Business Development before retiring in 2009. His duties included oversight of the Global BDM Team  among other projects and a bid for the US Currency Paper.

Rick has been involved in many industry-wide initiatives – He is the Vice Chairman of North American Security Products Organization (NASPO) where he oversees the Planning, Executive Search and ISO 247 TC Planning committees and is part of the Executive Committee. As part of the Document Security Alliance (DSA), Rick has contributed to white papers on Birth Records Reform, Report to the Nation, Social Security Identity Reform, Selection of Security Features and Machine Readable Authentication. He is also a member of the NAPHSIS Section 3 – Minimum Standards for the Birth Certification Document Committee.

Education: Eastern Nazarene College Chemistry;  Ursinus College, BS Marketing & Finance; Southern Methodist University - CE Financial Management and Cambridge University - Radio Frequency Identification CE. Rick is accredited as a Certified Document Consultant by the PSDA.   

Jennifer DuBord – Matamoros, Mexico - Market Analyst

Jennifer DuBord specializes in research, monitoring and evaluation for governmental and non-governmental organizations. 

Ms. DuBord conducted performance evaluations for Congress at the U.S. Government Accountability Office ( GAO). She has written a report and presented testimony  to Congress on the company formation process in U.S. states and the potential linkage between U.S. shell companies and international money laundering.  Other projects that she has worked on include evaluating the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Rule administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as joint ventures utilized by the Department of Veterans Affairs to construct or share medical facilities. 

Prior to her Washington DC experience, Ms. DuBord has conducted research on market-based transportation policies under a Federal Highway Administration grant and developed long-range and strategic planning reports and policies for local governments and non-profit organizations.  Ms. DuBord taught economics at a state university as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Taraz, Kazakhstan. 

Ms. DuBord received her Masters degree in Public Affairs with a focus on Planning and International Development from the University of Minnesota in 2000 and holds a Bachelors degree in International Business from the University of Colorado.