Startup entrepreneur who has taken companies through entire life cycle including IPO, public-public, private-private, and private-recap. Executed public financing, growth capital, venture funding, and various debt models.

Rich and his wife Leslie have various philanthropic endeavors with interest in civic and artistic endeavors, but with a primary focus on medically and educationally under-served children.

Through his podcast. essays. and appearances, Rich has promoted solutions-based policy discussions that eschew extreme political stances from both parties and instead, focus on reaching common sense answers.