Richard Ling

Concurrently with devoting his time to founding Rembrandt Venture Partners, Richard was the acting, founding CEO and Chairman of MetaLINCs Inc., an e-mail search and analytics company acquired by Seagate in 2007. Prior to Rembrandt, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in 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 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 holds a Bachelor of Science, Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (robotics and control/learning systems focus).