CEO,Serial Entrepreneur, Visionary, Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- President & CEO at WANdisco
- Strategic Advisor at NEC Corporation
- Advisory Board at Soft360
- Past
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- Advisory Board at WANdisco, Inc.
- Vice President and General Manager at Netmanage, Inc.
- Board of Directors at Objectweb
- Chairman & CEO at Librados, Inc.
- Advisory Board at Navidec
- CEO at Insevo
- CEO at DRC
- Senior Consultant at Mitsubishi Electric
- Consultant at Druid
- Intern at ICI
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David Richards’s Summary
Mr. Richards has over 15 years as an executive in the software industry and sits on both boards and advisory boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. Mr. Richards is a veteran of several successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognized as an industry leader in both EAI and EAI standards. He has spoken and written widely about standards in application integration and the adoption of open-source technologies.
Prior to WANdisco, Mr. Richards served as President and CEO of Librados, where he took the company from an early stage technology company to exponential customer and revenue growth. David led the company's acquisition by NetManage just over a year after joining the company. Following the successful acquisition he joined NetManage where he served as Vice President and General Manager.
Prior to Librados, David was the President and CEO of Insevo, Inc. where he raised venture capital from the world largest venture capital fund, 3i. After becoming a recognized leader in the middleware space the company was acquired.
David has also served on the boards of ObjectWeb, a leading open source application server company based in France and the EAI Industry Consortium where he also chaired the adapter committee.
David currently serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology companies. He is a strategic advisor to NEC Corporation, where he advises the head of NEC software group (Japan) to define open source strategy.
David Richards’s Specialties:
Startups, Entrepreneurship, CEO, Visionary, Investor, EAI, interim ceo, board member, advisor, venture capital, offshore development, financing, M&A
David Richards’s Experience
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Advisory Board
WANdisco, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Advisor to WAndisco who are pushing the limits of what can be achieved with distributed systems deployed on a Wide Area Network (WAN). By changing the way distributed nodes, or servers, interact, WANdisco provides unprecedented levels of reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) thus enabling the internet to realize its full potential.
WANdisco for CVS is unique in Software Configuration Management (SCM). For the first time a development team can truly be spread-out across the world and still work as one unit, in real-time. With WANdisco’s unique active/active replication technology there is no necessity for error-prone source code branching and manual file merging. In addition, the self-healing capabilities offered by WANdisco for CVS ensure high availability and automate disaster recovery without the need for any third party products. -
Vice President and General Manager
Netmanage, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NETM; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — July 2005 (9 months)
Librados was aquired by NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM) in September 2004.
In connection with the acquisition, David Richards, formerly President and CEO of Librados, joined NetManage's executive management team as the vice president and general manager of the Librados product line of adapters.
NetManage's suite of Librados adapters provide a cost-effective and easy to implement J2EE standards-based adapter solution to meet the real-time integration needs of today's Web-enabled enterprise. A comprehensive range of application adapters exposes back-end enterprise application functionality in a wide variety of formats, including XML and Web services. NetManage is driving the prohibitive cost out of EAI by offering Librados adapters under a unique source code royalty-free license for ISVs. A low-cost server and site license options is also available for end customers, all with comprehensive maintenance and support. -
Board of Directors
Objectweb
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — January 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Elected to the Board of Directors by the Assembly of Members which oversees the general functioning of the consortium and strategy.
Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of Open Source Middleware. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware are JOnAS - an Open Source implementation of the J2EE(tm) specification, JORAM JMS(tm) - a Message Oriented Middleware and Enhydra - a Java(tm)/XML Application Server. -
Chairman & CEO
Librados, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 8 months)
It is Mr Richards vision as CEO & Chairman of Librados to empower organizations by offering 100% standards-based, royalty-free application adapter source-code that allows customers to avoid the kind of proprietary vendor lock-in that has been the key factor in the high cost, and limited adoption of existing adapter solutions
Product: 100% pure Java J2EE standards-based application integration solution featuring a comprehensive suite of application adapters that expose back-end enterprise functionality from systems such as SAP R/3, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle and others in a wide variety of formats, such as XML and Web services. -
Advisory Board
Navidec
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NVDC; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Press Release:
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., May 23, To maximize the implementation and industry acceptance of its recently announced product offerings in web security, identity management, personalization and business process integration, Navidec (Nasdaq: NVDC - News) is pleased to announce the formation of a new advisory board. The advisory board has been formed with industry thought leaders who have significant knowledge and influence in Navidec's focused market areas.
The initial members of the advisory board include; Mr. Tom Palka, Executive Vice President of World Wide Sales for Netegrity, Mr. David Richards, CEO and Founder of Insevo, and Mr. Marco Mohajer, Director of Sun ONE North America Channels.
"It is exciting for me to have such experienced industry leaders believe in Navidec's vision and willingness to
contribute to its future success," said Ralph Armijo, President and
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CEO
Insevo
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years )
Founder and CEO of Insevo, Inc. Raised 3 rounds of Venture Capital including the worlds largest VC - 3i.
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CEO
DRC
(Computer Software industry)
November 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 1 month)
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Senior Consultant
Mitsubishi Electric
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 1 month)
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Consultant
Druid
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1995 — November 1997 (2 years 2 months)
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Intern
ICI
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)
July 1991 — September 1992 (1 year 3 months)
