Dick Darian

Background

About Dick Darian

Dick founded The Wise Rhino Group in March of 2018 after retiring from BlackRock. WRG is focused on assisting DC adviser/consulting firms with business and growth strategy and M&A advisory services. Prior Dick spent 8 years on the executive committee of BlackRocks DC business and focusing on the firms DCIO business. Before joining joining BlackRock, Dick was a founder and managing principal at National Retirement Partners (NRP), focusing on advisor firm recruiting, practice management and marketing. NRP was sold to LPL in July 2010. He began his career in the retirement industry at Mutual Benefit Life in 1983 where he led the development and distribution of one the industry's first 401(k) products. Dick joined Williams, Thacher and Rand (WTR), a NYC based benefit consulting firm in 1986 to build and manage the firm’s institutional retirement consulting group. Dick led the development of a thriving qualified plan consulting practice as well as an industry leading TPA recordkeeping operation. WTR was sold to ADP in 1995. In 1996 Dick moved the product distribution side of the business joining ReliaStar Financial, a Minneapolis MN based insurance company. There he helped develop, manage and distribute an early generation open architecture full service retirement product. Reliastar was sold to ING in 2001. Dick then joined MFS Investment Management where he ran national sales and was the Director of Corporate Retirement Plan Services for the firm. MFS sold its retirement business to Sun Life in 2006, resulting in his move to NRP.