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Rick is a growth-centric technology leader who serves as a board member, investor, C-suite coach and board advisor. Additionally, Rick and his family are deeply involved in a number of important charitable causes. Currently, Rick serves on the boards of Neat, Disruptive Technologies and CBTS, and as an advisor to the Board of Saviynt. Additionally, Rick invested in, and served on the boards of Ava Unified Security (cloud based physical security) and Next DLP (cyber security) - and was deeply involved in the sale of these successful high growth businesses to tech market leaders - Ava to Motorola Solutions in 2022, and Next DLP to Fortinet in 2024. Passionate about giving back, Rick serves on the Board of Don't Ever Give Up, the V Foundation, where he and the V Team are relentlessly pursuing Victory over Cancer. Rick enjoys working closely with his portfolio companies as a coach - in areas including strategy, culture, leadership, team development, sales, operations, marketing and routes-to-market. Known for his high energy level, direct communications style, genuine nature, strong values, leadership, and terrific relationships across the tech world, Rick continues to lead by leveraging these core attributes as an investor, and at the board level. Rick closed out his operating career as the Senior Vice President of Americas Partner Sales at Cisco where his teams generated $25B+ in revenue through partners across all technology pillars - including security, cloud, SaaS, data center, observability, networking and collaboration. Also at Cisco, Rick led the Global and Strategic Partner Organization, where his teams were responsible for the 360 degree relationships and growth of Cisco's top business relationships across the globe - among them - Google, AWS, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, Apple, SAP, Dell, EMC, VCE, VMWare, NetApp, Oracle, NTT, Samsung, Fujitsu, Hitachi, BMC, Wipro, TCS, and HCL. From 2005 through 2010, Rick served as President of TANDBERG, where he helped scale the company to over $1B in revenue and over 50% market share prior to Cisco’s acquisition of TANDBERG for $3.5B. Rick participated in the sale of TANDBERG to Cisco, and led the integration of this business into Cisco. After earning an internship with AT&T through Loyola University, Rick continued in a management development program there - and later progressed through bag carrying sales roles into key sales leadership, C-suite and CEO roles in the tech arena. Rick graduated from Loyola University in Maryland.

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