Rick is a resident of Austin, Texas and is heavily involved is the Austin start-up community. He is a CTAN member and former Board Chair for six years of this very active angel group. He has personally invested in 42 start-ups in 94 rounds of investments. He is currently an ACA Board member, the Board Chairman of Broadway Bank in Central Texas and serves on three additional Boards. Rick has 35 years of experience in financial management and strategic guidance at two Fortune 50 technology companies. Rick served as Senior Vice-President, Corporate Controller and Assistant CFO of finance at networking technology leader Cisco Systems from 1995 to 2007. Rick led efforts to reduce the closing of Cisco’s financial books from 21 days to one day. Prior to Cisco Rick served as a Vice President of finance for Motorola for 23 years, including the CFO of Motorola Japan in Tokyo for six years.