Richard graduated from Vassar College ('85) and Harvard Business School. He is President and Chief Operating Officer at TPN, a retail marketing agency, where he has worked for corporations such as PepsiCo, Walmart, Bank of America, 7-Eleven, Orbitz, Hershey, Staples, Anheuser-Busch and General Mills. In 1991 he joined the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, where he is now a Life Trustee. He is a Trustee of the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is the chairman of the Smart Museum of Art at University of Chicago and serves as a Life Member of the University of Chicago Visual Arts Visiting Committee. Feitler has been the past president of the Milwaukee Art Museum Board of Trustees and a trustee at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.