Rich is a founding partner of Ignition Capital. He was also a co-founder of Qiming Ventures and Ignition Ventures. He brings over 20 years of experience in marketing, operations, and management. He represents Ignition Capital is on the boards of SeaMobile and Liberty Dialysis. He previously spent 12 years at Microsoft, where he served as business strategy and marketing head for a wide range of enterprise software products including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, and all Microsoft server products.