Richard is a Founding General Partner of TCV, and has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over twenty years. Preceding TCV, Rick was a Managing Director at Montgomery Securities, where he spent over 10 years focusing on telecommunications and data communications as both a venture capitalist and senior equity research analyst. As a senior securities analyst, he played a pivotal role in identifying, sourcing and executing several preeminent initial public offerings, including StrataCom, Chipcom and FORE Systems. Rick's research received number one Institutional rankings from Greenwich Associates and "Home Run Hitter" accolades from Institutional Investor Magazine for his timely buy call on StrataCom, the top-performing growth stock of 1994. |