Richard’s life is built around balance. A co-founder of Underscore VC and now Venture Partner, he spent a decade bringing a constant balance of broad thinking and narrow focus to the firm, architecting its long-term investment discipline and digging in deep (and we mean deep) to develop the leading-edge thesis areas that have guided our approach to deploying capital.

That same balance guides Richard’s professional passions. While he’s a true programmer at heart (his children were named after telecommunications protocols), he believes that entrepreneurship is the driving force for the world, and that technology and business are the greatest levers to scale the impact anyone can have. Which is why, after a decade of backing bold entrepreneurs commercializing emergent technologies such as crypto, XR, AI/ML, and cloud infrastructure, Richard has stepped back into the arena as a startup founder. He continues to support Underscore’s portfolio companies as a Venture Partner, bringing his operator’s lens, founder’s instinct, and decade of investment experience to the founders in our orbit.

As a programmer turned entrepreneur turned VC turned entrepreneur again, Richard started his career as a quant at Goldman Sachs and then built out a skunkworks team that launched the D2C eCommerce business at Procter & Gamble. From there, he started his own machine learning startup to mine insights from social media for brands and spent the earlier part of his venture career at Founder Collective before co-founding Underscore VC.

If he’s not programming or pushing from idea to IPO, Richard is probably out keeping balance on the slopes. An accomplished skier (to say the least), he is a former member of the United States Ski Team.

Richard has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cornell University.