About Us

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Rick Delgiorno is the Founder and Managing Partner of The RAISE Group.  

 With over 25 years of results-oriented alumni engagement experience, Rick introduced the collegiate engagement model to the treatment industry. Working with over 200 volunteers, he successfully built a very active alumni association for a large national treatment company, creating 16 chapters, producing and executing over 350 events annually. This increased alumni referrals 689%, millions of dollars a month in net revenue and keeping costs under $100 per acquisition. Also, he achieved a 920.61% increase in event and meeting attendance despite the pandemic.  Rick is credited with creating tenets of practice for the industry as well as metrics to measure successes and find blind-spots,
 

During his tenure in higher education, he increased the culture of constituent engagement and philanthropic support by leading domestic and international teams of professionals, volunteers, and interns, increasing the number of domestic and international strategic regional operations at Dickinson and Temple University by 287% and 600% respectfully.
 

A strategic planning expert, he is credited with helping 100’s of colleges and universities develop and implement effective policies and procedures to achieve maximum productivity and efficient operations, advancing and increasing engagement and giving by 569%, creating an average increase of 9% in new donors and 160% increase in enrollment applications.
 

Finally, he led strategic and operational partners to achieve comprehensive goals, cultivate and support high performance, and reduce annual fiscal overage of 145% to 1.9%. 

Rich Smith is Senior Partner and head of The RAISE Groups Marketing Division.

Rich is an award winning Chief Marketing Officer with a history of building profitable companies and top-tier brands for the financial services, health care, insurance, and consumer financial products industries. I help CEO's and PE firms differentiate their businesses in the most competitive industry segments and have a track record of delivering results in high-pressure situations including: hyper-growth private-equity funded start-ups, newly acquired companies, stalled or declining sales, post-bankruptcy turnarounds, and companies facing a financial, regulatory, or public relations crisis.

Particular expertise as a B2C and B2B CMO and P&L Owner; creating and executing go-to-market strategy, aligning sales & marketing, scaling lead generation, brand positioning & brand refresh, growing production from $0 to $25B+, assembling high-performing teams, launching new products & locations, digital transformations, data driven marketing, public relations, crisis communications, competitive analysis, in-depth market research, strategic positioning, and relationship-building with clients and internal corporate verticals.

Target Industries & Segments: Financial Services, Healthcare, Mortgage, Banking, Insurance, Credit Card, Consumer Financial Products, Wealth Management, FinTech, Addiction Treatment, Mental Health, Eating Disorder Treatment, and Behavioral Health. 

Scott Bidding is an Associate with The RAISE Group.  Scott specializes in Digital Behavioral Analysis.

Scott is an expert Digital Behavioral Analysis who worked for Condé Nast and Comcast Business Enterprises.