Gladstone Acquisition Corporation announced that Rick Iler was appointed as Chief Financial Officer. J.Richard (Rick) Iler has spent his professional career in the capital markets working in positions as corporate finance, chief financial officer of both public and private companies, and institutional corporate bond salesman with leading wall street firms, e.g., BearStearns, Prudential, Kidder Peabody and Smith Barney. His operational experience began working for an heir, (Shelton Ranch Corporation) of the legendary King Ranch working in budgeting, cash management and financing activities.?

He worked with prominent joint ventures administering operating results with such notable companies as Shell, Prudential, Gulf & Western, and the Pritzker family. He has overseen financial reporting to regulatory agencies for numerous microcap public companies as chief financial officer where his duties evolved around facilitating various financings. His treasury experience with SavingsBank, a Texas savings bank, entailed chairing the asset/liability and investment committees, where he managed a $700 million mortgage bond arbitrage guiding it through a period of an inverted yield curve returning an annualized 25% internal rate of return.

His experience entailed substantial hedging experience with exchanged traded derivatives. Throughout his career, he has been part of various investment classes of stock, debt and off balance sheet instruments in the aggregate eclipsing several hundred million in equities and debt. He has been part of high net worth, venture capital firms and leading investment banking concerns.

He has a B.S. from Grand Valley State University and attended South Texas College of Law completing nearly 2 of the 3 year JD program. From 2018 to present, he has been self-employed as an independent consultant for various public companies.