Richard SantaColoma

Heliodoro Richard SantaColoma was born in New York in 1957. By age 13, he was working as a jeweler, the first employee of David Yurman. At age 15, he was managing a small jewelry manufacturing shop in upstate New York. This led to his becoming, by the age of 20, a bonded diamond setter in New York City's world-renowned Diamond District. While later working in several widely varied fields, he researched and wrote numerous articles and lectured on subjects as varied as early submarine development, yacht design and construction, navigation, cipher history, forgery, and the history of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript. Richard is working on several research projects, and is a consultant for, and/or appeared in several historical documentaries.