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Richard L. (Ric) Routh (born March 18, 1954) is an American businessman, former University faculty at USC Upstate (2004-2014), and former U.S. Army Officer (1978-1988). He is the son of Elmer L. Routh, a career U.S. Army officer and Joan A. (nee' Horst) Routh, a Nurse Practitioner (specializing in OB-GYN) and Certified Nurse Midwife. Richard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY in 1978 and entered the U.S. Army as an officer in the Signal Corps. Among his other duties and accomplishments in the Army, he was the founder and original director of the U.S. Army's Artificial Intelligence Training Center. In 1988 he resigned his commission and entered the business world. He worked initially as the Vice President and then President of the The GINESYS Corporation, headquartered in Greenville, SC. GINESYS was a company that specialized in high-end commercial applications of Artificial Intelligence technologies, principally expert systems. While at GINESYS, his company created a successful dot.com business (paintballcommand.com) in the paintball extreme sports market. From 2004 through 2014, Routh served on the faculty of USC Upstate, Department of Informatics, as the senior Business Informatics faculty member. While there, he founded and was the first director of the Institute for CIO Excellence, which has since separated from its affiliation with USC Upstate. He continues to remain its director and president, but as a private corporation. In 2013, Routh began serving as the C.E.O. of Victorum, Inc., a Texas corporation specializing in online educational assistance for high school and college students.