About Us
OUR TEAM
- Rick Boretsky
- President
- Rick brings over 25 years experience in developing and implementing merchandising systems for the specialty retail market. Rick has spent most of his years on the design, development, support, and implementation of merchandising applications. Rick has led large-scale development projects throughout his career, and as a result, Rick has acquired extensive knowledge of merchandising systems. Since the inception of RIBA Retail in 2003, Rick has worked on a variety of data conversion, integration, development, and consulting projects for a number of leading North American retailers, including Paul Stuart, Tory Burch, Urban Brands, Six Flags, Century 21, Hermes, and others.
- Having recognized the problem of data transformation, Rick has made it the sole focus of RIBA Retail to provide specialized and professional data transformation services to retailers of all types and sizes. Prior to this, Rick gained over 20 years of valuable experience as a senior development manager at NSB Group (formerly STS Systems, now Epicor) where he led the design and development team of NSB’s latest suite of core merchandising and business intelligence applications. Rick also led the customization and implementation of NSB’s retail applications at numerous retailers throughout North America, including Chico’s, Build-a-Bear, La Senza, and Barney’s.
- Juan Martin Fassone
- Chief Architect
- Juan has been working in software development for over 15 years and has been involved in the development of business applications, commercial websites, business process optimizations, and back-end systems. Through the years, Juan has gained experience and furthered his knowledge in all areas of leading software technologies, such as .NET, C#, VB.NET and SQL Server amongst others. Juan joined RIBA Retail as chief architect and developer. His extensive experience of software development and technologies enables him to design, develop, and deliver the best solutions to our customers. Juan has used his experience and technical skills to design and develop a sophisticated set of tools that tackles the data transformations in a consistent and standardized manner
- Prior to RIBA Retail, Juan was a Senior Developer at Select Blinds Canada, an online retail company that sells blinds and rugs. He was responsible for maintenance, the development of new business processes, and systems integration. Prior to this, Juan gained diverse experiences in the areas of retail and wholesale, while working at Momentis and RIBA Store Solutions as a software developer. Juan started his career as a web developer at Livra.com, a leading online marketing company based in Latin America.
- Maurizio Marzilli
- Chief Analyst
- With over 20 years of experience, Maurizio brings a wealth of retail and e-commerce/ERP systems knowledge and technical expertise. Maurizio has acquired specialties including; retail information systems analysis and operation; software development, testing and implementation; relational database modeling and design; database analysis and administration. Throughout Maurizio’s career, he has been involved in a variety of data conversion and integration projects with a diverse group of retailers. Maurizio is excited about applying his expertise to this unique specialty service.
- Previously, Maurizio spent over 15 years with STS/NSB in a variety of technical and analytical positions. Most recently, Maurizio was Director of Information Systems with a major online retailer, where he was responsible for the replacement of the e-commerce and ERP systems; architecting and delivering a complete integrated business solution, development of integration modules to support the primary web channel; coordinating timely delivery of all vendor solution components; and leading the data migration effort to the new systems with reintegration of existing vendor solutions, including web analytics, affiliate channels, and credit card payment processing.
