Richard Sherman
Chief Executive Officer at Conduit 11, Inc.
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Sherman is a seasoned CEO and entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience building and scaling businesses across insurance, waste-to-energy, and advisory ventures. He led Invensure to become a top-ten independent multi-line brokerage in Orange County, later transitioning clients through a successful sale to HUB International while continuing as a strategic consultant. As co-founder of Gate 5 Energy Partners he helped commercialize an innovative sewage sludge-to-energy technology, navigating R&D and international patenting to land a local demonstration project. Today he runs Conduit 11, leveraging a deep middle-market network to connect leaders, source opportunities, and incubate new ventures. A UC Irvine economics graduate and former competitive skier and PSIA Level II instructor, he brings uncommon discipline and a connector’s instinct to business development and board service. His long-term blend of operational hands-on insurance expertise and cross-disciplinary innovation positions him as a practical dealmaker with a commitment to community impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at University of California - Irvine
Github Skills (62)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
thunderbird10
dashboard10
react-native10
storybook-addon10
cfml10
mysql10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
no-code10
typescript10
vite10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
richorrichard/storybook
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
đź““ The UI component explorer. Develop, document, & test React, Vue, Angular, Web Components, Ember, Svelte & more!
Contributions:19 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
reactvue-reactweb-componentsjavascriptsvelte
richorrichard/strapi
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
🚀 Open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
cmsapinode-jscustomisablenodejs
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