About the President

Richard Ellis has spent decades overseeing and acquiring merchandise for Cambridge-Essex.  He has worked with the Beatles and the agent of artist Marc Chagall, and has gained tremendous knowledge about all fields of collectibles by traveling all over the world.

After studying law and business administration at Yale graduate school, he entered military service and volunteered for military service with the 82nd Airborne.

He is an avid swimmer who has won countless national and world titles, raced stock cars for many years and competed in LeMans in 1958, won th Rickenbacker Trophy for sport fishing, loves table tennis, and once drove a Land Rover from London to Khatmandu.  He was also a photo journalist and war correspondent for many years.