Richard W. Lawrence
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Richard W. Lawrence
In August of 2009, Richard Lawrence was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Colorado Foundation. He had served as Senior Vice President of Administration, Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer since 2006.
Rick has more than 25 years of banking experience, much of it in leadership positions spanning finance, operations and retail bank assignments at Bank One Corporation and Vectra Bank, Colorado. From 2000 to 2006 Rick was Executive Vice President of Vectra Bank Colorado where he served as Chief Financial Officer and later led the bank’s core retail operation in the greater Denver Metro area including Executive Banking, Business Banking, 19 branches and more than 150 employees. Rick also managed the bank’s statewide operations, IT, compliance and regulatory relations groups.
A resident of Louisville, Colorado, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Business at the University of Colorado and is a graduate of the American Bankers Association School for Financial and Funds Management and the ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Rick has served as a board member of the Colorado Bankers Association, the DIA Partnership, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation, and as a commissioner for the Boulder Urban Renewal Authority and the Boulder Downtown Management Commission.