Mr. Ricardo F. Diaz is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and spent 20 years as an officer in the United States Army in the areas of security, intelligence, operations research, marketing, and marketing research. Mr. Diaz is a graduate of the Operations Research/ System Analysis Military Applications Course and the ORSA Continued Education Program, hosted at the Army Logistics University (formerly ALMC) in Fort Lee, VA., and an M.B.A. in Network Assurance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Diaz experience in ORSA include 5 years as a marketing analyst, team chief of the longitudinal section, Strategic Partnership Officer and Officer-in-Charge of the simulation section at the United States Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox, KY. He also has 2 years of ORSA experience in the Futures Development and Integration Center in Fort Sill, OK. Among his main accomplishments was to get published in June 1999 by the Strategic Studies Institute, “The Hispanic Market, an Overview”. Mr. Diaz was also selected as the Project Officer for the Secretary of the Army’s “Hispanic Leadership Conference” in Miami, FL in December 1999, and the project officer for the United States Army Recruiting Command Strategic Study using the Balanced Scorecard in 2004-2005. During his time in Fort Sill, Mr. Diaz was appointed the Study Director for the 2010 TRADOC Joint Fires Studies.

Mr. Diaz finished his military career as an ROTC instructor and Battalion Executive Officer of the ARMY ROTC Battalion at the University of Texas at Arlington. After retiring from the ARMY in 2007, he took the contractor job of “Commandant of Cadets” and was in charge of the administration and logistics of a 200 person military organization, developing a deep understanding of government contracting, logistics, and equipment requirements.

In June 2011 Mr. Diaz terminated his employment as a contractor and began working and developing Masterminders Group in a full time basis. He has quickly mastered the world of government contracting and has built a good reputation quickly among contracting officers. Masterminders Group was awarded six open market contracts valued at over $149,000 in the first year of operation and is currently seeking additional open market and contracted opportunities both with the federal government, local governments, and private firms.