Rick comes to the group with over 25 years of business experience spent mainly in the software sector. He has most recently been involved as a founder and principal of Attivo Capital Management and as President and CEO in the latter stages of Symbium Corp., an Ottawa provider of enterprise management products. Rick began his career by building on his computer science education from University of Waterloo. He worked his way through IBM Canada from engineering and sales to become Country Manager of their multi-million dollar PC Software division. Taking the experience he gained from IBM Rick moved to Silicon Valley in California to be EVP of Business Development at Geoworks Corp. There he worked on developing licensing relationships with handheld device manufacturers Toshiba, Sharp, Casio, Canon and HP, among others. Rick moved on to be Co-founder and President of Strategic Communications Corp., a wireless data service provider to banks, with funding from Silicon Valley investors. After SCC was bought by Skytel Communications, Rick moved on to being EVP of Sales and Marketing at Certicom Corp., a world leader in wireless security. He eventually became their CEO taking the company from $1.5 million to $27 million in sales, raising $125 million in institutional money, and going public on the NASDAQ.