0 item(s)VRIA Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the Vacation Rental Industry Association are elected from the membership according to voting priviledges. Leaders determine policies and procedures of the group, recruit and select the staff and oversee services offered. Generally questions should be directed to the staff, but you are welcome to email Board members who may respond or ask staff to do so.
Richard G. Mattson
Title: President Care of: RadioParties.com Business Phone: 800-954-3535 Business Email: Ric@RadioParties.com Business Address: 1447 Leshchi Place, Fox Island, WA, 98333, USA
You may know him best as Ric Hansen, a popular Seattle Disc Jockey since 1972. Since then he has served as on-air personality, program manager and marketing director for top rated radio stations in Seattle metro area; mostly recently on KRJ-FM.
What you might not know is that Richard Mattson, behind the scenes, has also been a highly active entrepreneur for decades. Having started with multiple real estate properties and projects, Ric has invested in radio stations and other ventures. Some years ago Ric came up with an unusual business - that of providing live disc jockey entertainers to school and other parties all over the United States.
He realized there was a real need for a national "Name brand" mobile DJ organization that was capable of finding, and managing the best "Live" DJ entertainers and use their skills to not only entertain but serve as a powerful event marketing tool for Radio Stations, and retail advertisers.
To get things rolling Ric recruited a team of great DJ talent in most US cities and harnessed their talent to benefit our client's promotional needs. RadioParties.com works with over 30 major market radio stations doing promotional parties to attract new listeners. (Including: Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Denver, St. Louis, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Charlotte etc.
For three decades Ric has been one of the most sought after voice-over talents in the country. If you live far from Seattle, you may think you have never heard him on the radio you may be surprised to learn that you have definitely him his voice before on local, regional and national radio and television.
Ric lives on picturesque Fox Island in Puget Sound and is devoted to his wife and son Ben.