Rick is a technologist and two-time software entrepreneur. Rick joined USVP in 2004 and is a Partner in the firm. At
USVP, Rick focuses on software (enterprise SaaS and security) and consumer internet (social, mobile, and e-commerce). In
software, Rick serves on the Board of Directors at Act-On Software, Victrio, and Yammer, and serves as a board observer
at ThreatMetrix. In consumer internet, Rick led USVP's investment in myYearbook.com (acquired by Quepasa, NYSE:QPSA) and
he serves on the Board of Directors at Hooked Media Group, ScoreBig, and Trunk Club. Rick also helped lead USVP's
investing activities in energy-efficiency technology, including Intermolecular (NASDAQ:IMI), Redwood Systems and Xicato.
Prior to joining USVP, Rick spent six years in high-tech leadership roles spanning software engineering, product
management, operations, and strategy--for market leaders like Autodesk and Walt Disney Imagineering, and as a co-founder
of software companies Design Variations (funded by Parametric Technology Corporation) and Common Point Technologies
(acquired by Bentley Systems). Rick also held positions at Sun Microsystems, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and
McKinsey & Company. Rick has been published for his research in computer graphics at UC Berkeley, and is a member of the
Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Rick holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of
California at Davis (summa cum laude), an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction.
For eleven years, Rick has been involved actively with the San Francisco nonprofit Real Options for City Kids
(www.rocksf.org), which provides services such as after-school tutoring and sports clinics to underprivileged children
in San Francisco's Visitation Valley neighborhood. Rick lives with his wife and daughter on the San Francisco peninsula.
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