Ric is one of two original founders of RSI. He has returned to Panama in order to bring his vision and dream to reality. He has personally set up the team in Panama to insure that we truly excel in customer service and fulfill our mission to bring a true concierge service to our retiree clients. The team, procedures, and methods he is developing in Panama are the model RSI will use in every country we develop.

Ric grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, living there for 20 years, where his parents enjoyed retirement in the mountains of El Valle.  An undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University, he spent 3 years living and traveling in Central America and South America and bought a 40 acre farm near Monteverde, Costa Rica.  He attended medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle.  He then returned to Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone, where his Dad had practiced, for a flexible internship to enjoy working with his father’s colleagues and caring for many of his father’s patients.  He returned to Seattle to complete a Family Medicine Residency at Swedish Hospital and then started his practice in Bellevue, Washington.

After growing a private practice and then working in a Community Health Center, Ric gravitated increasingly into medical management in the emerging world of managed care.  He enjoyed a rich and varied career as a Physician Executive and health care organizational consultant in a variety of managed care organizations.

Ric has an abiding interest in international living and health care.  He is looking forward to retiring in Panama, enjoying his relatives there, and working to create a great retirement transition for others interested in the wonderful quality of life of retirees in Panama.

Lynn heads up our gateway to the Mediterranean in Portugal with Manuela. Lynn is originally from Seattle. He is from Seattle before it had the aura. He always worked in positions that leveraged certain people skills, though, in his heart, he might have treasured some solitude. He was, in his twenties, a bartender, which prepared him for his later career as a counselor, because a good bartender need often be the confidante. Later, after he’d thoroughly researched the underside of drinking and had, with some enlightened help, managed to stop drinking himself and had gone back to college and acquired the expected degrees, he worked for twenty four years as a chemical dependency professional, for most of those years working as the treatment director at outpatient agencies. For the seven years preceding a grateful retirement, he directed his own agency on Lake Union, in Seattle.

When initially in Portugal, he was living in Tomar, in the center of the country, quietly letting the eight hundred year old Knights Templar Castle above the town provide perspective, and doing what expatriates did when they wanted to stay and were too young to retire, teaching English at a language center, when he met Manuela, who was teaching French at the same school. A year later, married, they moved to Seattle, where he returned to the counseling profession and her eight year old son bravely entered the fourth grade.

At the time of writing this short bio, he and his wife have been back in Portugal for twelve years and are living in the country outside of Lagos and tending to an unreasonable number of animals and shepherding retirement adventures for those on a similar wavelength.

Heshan graduated from Trinity College, a very reputable private school in Sri Lanka. He proceeded to follow his passion and completed further training in Professional Cookery at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management and Human Resource Management.

Heshan is an enthusiastic character who engages in a broad range of people centered activities. As a dedicated social worker and volunteer, he is on point for a multitude of volunteering opportunities with the senior population and the disabled. He is an avid nature and animal lover with an interest in local history. His travels have taken him down the back roads and byways across most parts of the country.

The travel and leisure industry and getting to know people of different cultures appear to be two distinct interest areas since his childhood. Having traveled all over the country, he is always available to share his experience and passion with other enthusiasts.