Richard E. Haskell, Sr. is the founder and CEO of Signature Management, LLC,  and serves as Senior Economist for Signature Update, Signature Economic Advisors, and the Signature Management group of companies.  He is the author of Personal Economy, Signature Update’s Economic and Market Commentary, and Today’s Money Tools’ consumer finance tips.  He is also associated with the University of Utah’s Graduate School of Economics.

Haskell’s career in economics and financial services has spanned the better part of three decades.  It includes his tenure as a Vice President with Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. in New York, years spent developing a successful advisory and consulting practice, and building several small business enterprises.  His grasp of economic and market issues, as they relate to businesses and households, led him to focus his firm’s efforts towards assisting businesses and decision makers with the concepts necessary for strategic growth and development. 

Through innovation and mastery of economic and market concepts, Haskell has aided many hundreds of business, government and household leaders improve their competitive advantage in their respective markets. 

Haskell earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University in Family Financial Planning and Counseling and began his career with Dean Witter in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1984.  After relocating to New York, he participated in the firm’s corporate and branch decision making activities in New York and Texas.  In 1989 he moved his family back to Utah, and later began his graduate studies and research in economics, before forming Signature Management.

Haskell, his wife Leslie, and most of their children and grandchildren are at home in Utah, where they’re active in their church, community, business and academia.  He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Itineris Early College High School (a charter high school of the Utah Department of Education), and is a member of the Board of Directors of Salt Lake American Diversity (a Utah based charitable foundation promoting cultural diversity). He is a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Young Men of America Award and is currently listed in Who’s Who in American Business.