Category: Leadership

  • Daniel Rice

    Founder and CEODaniel founded Rice Industries while living in Richmond, Virginia. Originally inspired by the Danaher and Colfax business models, Daniel started Rice out of a strong desire to build an operating company with acquisition, as well as strategic and process improvement, as core competencies. As CEO, Daniel oversees organizational and process development, M&A and…

  • Tony Asfor

    CFO Tony is the Chief Financial Officer of Rice Industries and sits on its Board. Tony joined in 2018 and leads Rice’s financial, accounting, IT, and administrative efforts. Tony is a 20+ year veteran of the pharmaceutical and telecom industries, and public auditing (Big 4). Tony’s experience prior to joining Rice included finance and accounting…

  • Chris Arnoldt

    PresidentAs President of Rice, Chris leads all Sales, Business Development, Engineering, and Operations functions. Chris has been paramount in building the organization around innovation, quality, process and teamwork. Before being promoted to President at Rice, he created, built and led the Sales and R&D functions as Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Rice Industries…

  • Lisa Stoldt

    Director of HRLisa is the Corporate Human Resources Manager of Rice Industries. Lisa joined in 2022 and is responsible for leading all aspects of human resources including Rice’s talent strategy to attract and develop talent at all levels. Lisa brings over 16 years of experience and has worked in freight forwarding, insurance and manufacturing industries…

  • Pejman Hadi

    Director of EngineeringPejman is an experienced chemical engineer with proven leadership capabilities and currently serves as the Director of Engineering in Rice Industries. Pejman strives to identify and lead strategic projects in support of organizational strategic goals and objectives. He is responsible for all continuous improvement projects and new product development from pilot scale to…