Ric Dillon is one of our firm’s founders and serves as our Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer. His career began in 1977, and includes a cumulative ten years with Loomis Sayles, where he started their first Small Cap fund in 1991.

In 2000, Ric was hired by the publicly-owned The Bank Stock Group to rationalize their existing business and to build an asset management firm, which became Diamond Hill Investment Group, based in Columbus, Ohio. During Ric’s fifteen-year tenure as CEO of the Company, Diamond Hill ranked in the top 1% of all public companies in the US in terms of shareholder total return with an annualized total return of 27%.

Ric holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He received an MBA from the University of Dayton, as well as a M.A. in Finance and a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.

Ric, his wife, Marina, and their daughter, Luisa, split time between homes in New Albany, Ohio and Orlando, Florida.