Rick Wyatt was appointed to the Board of Visitors on July 1, 2023, by Governor Glenn Youngkin. He currently serves as Secretary of the Board.
Wyatt is corporate vice president and treasurer for Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). Named to this position in 2011, Wyatt is responsible for banking and credit, corporate finance, cash management and forecasting, insurance and risk management, mergers and acquisitions, investments and trusts, financings, capital structure, capital markets, rating agency relationships, short-term investments, and pension trust asset management.
Wyatt joined HII in 1982 and has held numerous positions in the financial area of the company, including cost engineering, cost control, program and contract management, financial analysis and government accounting. Prior to being elected Treasurer of HII, he served as director of business management, treasurer and assistant treasurer of Newport News Shipbuilding, and manager of finance. He has extensive experience in capital markets, corporate transactions, spin-offs and subsequent start-ups, balance sheet management and operations analysis. Wyatt earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Hampden-Sydney College and an MBA from Old Dominion University.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is one of America's largest military shipbuilding companies and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing about 44,000 in Virginia, Mississippi and Louisiana, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to other Government customers, including the Department of Energy.