Prior to co-founding 3Dsolve, Richard Boyd served as the CEO of 3dvillage, Inc. a company he helped found that was acquired in September of 2001.



Prior to that, he was General Manager and VP of Sales for Virtus, where he worked for nearly a decade. In addition to these duties over the years, Boyd has become a highly sought-after industry speaker, logging numerous appearances at key industry conferences such as Comdex, MacWorld, Windows World-London, NCGA, Web3D and the Meckler Virtual Reality conferences. He also spearheaded the effort to use 3D visualization technologies to create virtual environments for movies such as Warner Brothers' feature Fearless, a John Hay film titled The Steal, as well as during the pre-production phase of Brian dePalma's blockbuster Mission: Impossible.



With David Smith, Boyd co-wrote an industry-leading book on VRML technologies that was widely distributed and translated into three foreign languages in 1995. He also currently serves on the Board of the 3D Industry Forum. Boyd is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.