Richard Ling’s executive experience and passion for technology provides the Rembrandt investment team with their technical expertise. Richard’s prior hands-on technical management allows him to guide Rembrandt’s portfolio companies in their innovation and implementation of new technologies.

Prior to joining Rembrandt, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in March 2002.

Prior to AlterEgo, Richard led the i-Merchandising product organization at Inktomi, responsible for overseeing all areas of the group's engineering and operations, including site and network operations and product development. Prior to Inktomi, Richard was a co-founder, acting CTO and VP of Products and Engineering at Impulse Buy Networks Inc., leading the development, operations and product management groups. Impulse Buy Networks acquired by Inktomi in April 1999.

Prior to Impulse Buy, Richard founded and was CEO of Spero Inc., a company focused on creating supply-chain/distributor management systems for large-scale enterprises. Prior to Spero, Richard was a Director of International Product Marketing and Management at Novell Inc. Previously, Richard was a product line manager at Univel, acquired by Novell in 1992. Richard was a systems design engineer, strategic planning analyst and product manager for Convergent Technologies Inc.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (robotics and control/learning systems focus) from the University of California at Berkeley.

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