Chad Riley is a personal property appraiser specializing in fine art servicing the Windsor-Essex Region. Riley is also the Director of the Leamington Arts Centre (LAC), a not-for-profit charitable organization and regional community art gallery.

Chad Riley completed the core course in appraisal studies earning his ISA distinction from the International Society of Appraisers and he is fully compliant with the 2018-19 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP.) 

Riley holds a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA with a specialization in Photography. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) with Honours distinction and a minor in Art History from the University of Windsor, School of Visual Arts in Windsor, ON Canada.

Riley is the Director of the Leamington Arts Centre and is noted for his previous experience as adjunct professor of digital photography at the Art Institute of Michigan – Troy. Riley is recognized for his achievements as an arts leader in the region by numerous awards, nominations and academic scholarships.

Riley is also an accomplishes artist having exhibited nationally and internationally nearly 100 exhibitions and his work is on permanent display and in collections in a variety of institutions and public spaces in Canada and in the United States.