About Rembrandt Venture Partners

Richard G. Ling
General Partner

Richard Ling brings serial entrepreneurship experience and passion for technology to the Rembrandt team.

Prior to founding Rembrandt in 2004, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in March 2002. Before AlterEgo, Richard led the e-Commerce product organization at Inktomi, where he was responsible for overseeing all areas of the group's engineering and operations, including site and network operations and product development. Richard was a co-founder, VP of Products and Engineering, acting CTO at Impulse Buy Networks Inc., leading the development, operations and product management groups. Impulse Buy Networks was acquired by Inktomi in 1998.

Richard was also a Director of International Product Marketing and Management at Novell Inc. and a product line manager at Univel, acquired by Novell in 1991. Richard has also held positions as a systems design engineer, strategic planning analyst and product manager for Convergent Technologies Inc. Currently, Richard sits on the boards of LGC Wireless, MetaLINCs, Socializr and Trustfuse/Rapleaf.

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

Current investments include:

• MetaLINCs, an e-discovery, e-mail search and analytics company
• Skybox Security, is the leading provider for proactive security risk management
• Rhythm NewMedia, a leading mobile advertising company
• Socializr, the next generation online event/invitation site

Previous investments include:

• Cavium Networks (CAVM/NASDAQ), leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor processors that enable intelligent networking, communications and security applications
• LGC Wireless (acquired by ADC Communications Q4 2007), the leading in-building wireless equipment provider