Rick has over 20 years of experience working with technology companies at all stages of development. Prior to founding Intelligent Capital, he served as a Principal in Technology Investment Banking with Needham & Co., working from the company's Sand Hill Road offices from 1993 through 1998. During this time, he led some of Needham's highest profile financing & merger transactions in the software, semiconductor, communications, and design automation industries. Earlier, Rick served as a later stage equity investor and venture capitalist at Berkeley International Capital, and has also worked in the International Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Sanwa Bank in Tokyo and as an equity analyst at Data Resources, Inc. Currently, Rick serves as Program Director of the MIT Club of Northern California Growing Companies Entrepreneurship Program, which sponsors a range of events aimed at helping current and future technology entrepreneurs to launch and build companies. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), has a BS in Computer Science from Syracuse University, and an MS in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Rick grew up in Boston where he enjoyed sailing on the Charles River and off of Cape Cod, and more recently skiing, hiking, and biking in Northern California. |