Rich Checkan graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry.  He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army as an Infantry Officer.  He then served tours of duty at Fort Benning in Georgia,  Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and on the Demilitarized Zone in the Republic of South Korea.  He held various leadership and staff positions at every level from platoon through battalion sized organizations.  While at West Point he played varsity soccer.  He left military service in 1993 at the rank of Captain.

After a brief stint of direct sales in Macon and Atlanta, Georgia with telecommunications and multinational service corporations, Rich joined ASI (then, International Financial Consultants, Inc.) in the spring of 1996.  

In 1997, Mr. Michael Checkan, Mr. Glen Kirsch and Mr. Rich Checkan created, developed, and refined a Precious Metals Certificate Program for the Perth Mintⁱ.  They became one of only eight Approved Dealers in the world to sell Perth Mint Certificates.

As the Senior Vice President of ASI, Rich has knowledge of every facet of ASI's operations and over sees the operations, administrative, sales, and marketing departments.  He is also the companies Compliance Officer.

Rich Checkan is a regular contributor of ASI’s own newsletter, Information Line (IL).  He also is a regular writer for ASI’s news alert, Always Something Interesting, twice a week. 

When Rich isn’t in the office, he is speaking at a conference or leading a workshop at a seminar.  In seven years he has spoken at more than 50 conferences and seminars.

Rich has three children, two girls and a boy and says the smartest thing he ever did was to say “I do” to his wife, Helen.