Richard G. Ling

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

Concurrently with devoting his time to the formation of RVP Fund One in 2003, Richard was the acting, founding CEO and Chairman of MetaLINCs Inc., an e-mail search and analytics company. Prior to RVP, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in March 2002.

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

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 and 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.

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