Rick Sinkfield

Rick Sinkfield is Vice President of Expansion at Covista, where he oversees expansion efforts across the portfolio, with a current focus on Chamberlain University's campus expansion.  

Sinkfield joins Covista from Educational Testing Service (ETS), where he served as Chief Legal Officer, leading the organization's legal, compliance and government affairs functions. Prior to ETS, he spent 20 years at Laureate Education (Nasdaq: LAUR), a global network of higher education institutions, where he served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. In that role, he led the company through a strategic restructuring and divestiture process that helped double its share price over a five-year period. Earlier in his tenure at Laureate, he built the company's multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance organization across a nine-country, $3 billion Latin America business segment spanning 150 campuses.

Sinkfield began his career as a senior official at the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, where he helped shape and implement U.S. policy on multilateral lending, economic development and trade and sanctions.

He continues to serve on Chamberlain University's Board of Trustees, a seat he has held since fall 2025.  

Sinkfield holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.