<p>Rick Covert is the Chairman of the Board, First Choice Emergency Room. He also serves as a corporate director on two other company boards. Prior, he served as co-founder and CEO of First Choice Emergency Room where he led the company to seven straight years on the Dallas Business Journal and SMU Cox School of Business 100 fastest-growing businesses in North Texas, as well as repeated appearances on the Inc. 500/5000 list.</p>
<p>Before founding First Choice, Rick began his career and spent 10 years at Wells Fargo where he excelled as a troubleshooter in Operations before developing the governmental affairs infrastructure and processes for the Wells Fargo subsidiaries in the state legislatures and regulatory agencies.  Then Associates First Capital relocated Rick to Dallas, TX to manage their governmental relationships in the Southeastern United States.  Later he worked with a national trade association in Washington DC catering to financial services corporate clients where he finessed lobbying and public relations activities on high profile, multi-state crisis issues.  Rick has been active on over 30 different state trade financial services associations over his career.</p>
<p>Rick attended Stetson University for both undergraduate and graduate school, earned an MBA and studied at Concord Law School.  He lives in Flower Mound with his wife and 3 daughters.</p>