Rick McNees

Current

Vice President Business Development at Riverglass, Inc.

Past

Vice President Business Development & Marketing at Lakeview Technology
Vice President Business Development & Marketing at iTRACS Corporation
Vice President Business Development at Cybersafe

5 more...

Education

Northwestern University, Chicago/Evanston, IL
Indiana University Bloomington

Recommended

12 people have recommended Rick

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Rick McNees’s Summary

Thirty years in technology business development, marketing, corporate development, management.

Helped grow tech companies from concept to $2+mm,
$3mm to $150mm, and $400mm to $1bn.

Successfully acquired and assimilated sixteen technology companies.

Tech experience in app development, systems management, analytics and security. Industry deployments in defense, intelligence, law enforcement, information enterprises, mfg, financial services, distribution & transportation.

Seeking partners to verticalize, market, deploy, integrate, leverage value-add of RiverGlass (riverglassinc.com) technology & solutions.

Interested in engagements to leverage my experience, skills, interests, and network. Always seeking opportunity/excuse to share fine wine! (www.mcnees.org/winesite/).

National Security Clearance - TOP SECRET.

eMail: Mail@McNees.org; rmcnees@riverglassinc.com
Personal www: http://www.mcnees.org

Rick McNees’s Specialties:

Business development - strategy thru execution; channels, strategic & 3rd party alliances, programs, IP licensing, contracts, negotiations, management;

Technology marketing - strategy, market intell, positioning, messaging, marcom, PR, branding, product management, marketing operations;

Corporate development - strategy, market assessment, M&A, business assimilation, funding;

Early stage to mature ventures - strategy, planning, business formulation, capital raise, M&A, management.

Rick McNees’s Experience

Vice President Business Development

Riverglass, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Leverage vast volume, variety, velocity of data, providing a lens into that torrent of data for situational awareness & actionable intelligence, in context - in time. Powerful ontological semantics driven intelligent search, collection & analysis of unstructured & structured data from disparate sources extracts information relevant to mission, role and task needs. Spin-out of the NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois.

RiverGlass is used in govt in intelligence & law enforcement for counter-terrorism, drug interdiction, fighting internet & violent crime; in defense for maritime domain awareness, & command & control helping multi-agency, cross-jurisdiction responses to a national catastrophic event; & by major corporations for threat detection, risk management, market & competitive intelligence.

Rick develops market strategy, manages strategic accounts, federal government, channels, industry alliances & partnerships.

Additional Information

Rick McNees’s Websites:

Rick McNees’s Interests:

Collector of fine wine, wine reviewer & writer; featured in Wine Spectator, Food & Wine and Naperville Magazines. Enjoy wine country and interesting travel, history, golf, skiing, basketball, soccer, photography, landscaping, architecture, and sport cars. Webmaster for several non-profit and personal interest websites - www.mcnees.org. Certified soccer coach.

Rick McNees’s Groups:

Acacia Fraternity, member, Secretary Board of Directors for Acacia Fraternity Corporation Board.

Featured speaker at American Marketing Association,
Marriott TQM (Total Quality Management), PLATINUM Technology, and Micro Focus Global Conferences.

Charter member United Airlines Mileage Plus Advisory Council.

BSF International (www.bsfinternational.org), graduate of seven year program.