Ricardo (Rick) Martinez has over 40 years of professional experience in engineering, program and project management, and commercial and governmental business. His company, Project Enhancement Corporation (PEC), which he founded and has led since 1998, is highly regarded as a premier organization providing professional services to federal government clients, including the Department of Energy (encompassing the National Nuclear Security Administration), NASA, and the Department of Labor (including OSHA). The company has over 230 employees and holds prime contracts worth more than $250 million, resulting in over $60 million in annual revenues and provides employment to an additional 200 contract personnel.

He has been actively engaged in the business community, chairing multiple chambers and commissions, and serving on multiple business, educational, non-profit, governmental, and banking advisory boards for over 20 years. He is known for assisting other individual and small companies within the underserved community in their journeys to becoming self-sustaining, and successful; including mentoring a minority woman-owned small business and a service-disabled veteran owned small business under the SBA mentor/protégé program.

Mr. Martinez and his wife, Maria, have four children and one grandson. They enjoy music, the arts, boating and are engaged in numerous small business, public service, community outreach, and philanthropic causes.