San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Trade Commissioner at Canadian Consulate General
- Principal at Rasmussen Consulting Group
- Past
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- President and CEO at BuzMe.com, Inc
- Entrepreneur In Residence at Institutional Venture Partners
- Interim CEO and Director at @Road
- Vice President Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems
- General Manager and Product Director at LSI Logic
- Product Manager at Fairchild
- Education
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- Columbia University - Columbia Business School
- University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
- Foothill College
- University of California, Berkeley
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Rick Rasmussen’s Experience
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Trade Commissioner
Canadian Consulate General
(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for the IT practice for Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii. I assist Canadian companies establish business relationships in territory and help local companies to best understand the opportunities of doing business in Canada. Initiatives such as VC bootcamps, actively engaging colleagues throughout Canada and fostering local expatriot groups provide leverage far beyond the resources of our local market.
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Principal
Rasmussen Consulting Group
(Management Consulting industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 6 months)
I run a thriving consulting practice focused on birthing startups and helping them grow from small to large. Typical tasks include business plan creation, setting funding strategies, product planning, product launches, team building and more - all relying on a strong history of success. See http://www.rasmussenconsulting.com for more details.
Current appointments include:
- Director, CritterPix, Inc. (3D CG animated feature films)
- Member, Sand Hill Angels (investment group)
- Director, Non-profits including Acacia Fraternity and KFJC-FM
Additionally, over the last year I have served in the following roles:
- Advisor, Silicon Clocks (Advanced MEMS technologies)
- Advisor, Stream Processors, Inc. (Highly parallel DSPs)
- Advisor, Silicon Image [SIMG] (Digital video interface devices)
- Advisor, Trooval (Targeted sales management tools)
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President and CEO
BuzMe.com, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 2 months)
President and CEO for an Internet Call Waiting company from inception through product launch. Raised Series A financing and grew a team of 50 professionals in Silicon Valley and St. Petersburg, Russia. Service rated 5 (of 5) stars by PC Magazine and 3 (of 4) by USA Today.
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Entrepreneur In Residence
Institutional Venture Partners
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Served as the internal resource to review and perform due diligence on semiconductor-based business plans for IVP. The firm soon split into Redpoint (IT) and Versant Ventures (Life Sciences).
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Interim CEO and Director
@Road
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ARDI; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1998 — February 1999 (9 months)
Brought in by funding VCs to oversee conversion from a GPS chipset manufacturer (Vectorlink) into an Internet-based vehicle fleet tracking services company. Positioned the company for it's successful IPO in July 2000.
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Vice President Marketing
C-Cube Microsystems
(Public Company; CUBE; Semiconductors industry)
February 1992 — June 1996 (4 years 5 months)
Part of rescue team that repositioned company, raised funds including IPO. C-Cube became dominant market leader for MPEG and JPEG video compression chips which were used in applications ranging from VideoCD and DVD players, satellite and cable headend encoders, set-top boxes and many more. Ran multiple operations including worldwide marketing, applications engineering, IT and customer service operations. Successful IPO in 1994. C-Cube was acquired by LSI Logic in 2001.
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General Manager and Product Director
LSI Logic
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LSI; Semiconductors industry)
February 1983 — February 1992 (9 years 1 month)
General Manager MIPS Microprocessor division, profitable product line $40M, 80 person organization. Prior to GM assignment, oversaw all new product development for the Company including early Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), standard cell, megacells, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) as well as MIPS and SPARC RISC processors.
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Product Manager
Fairchild
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
September 1981 — January 1983 (1 year 5 months)
Product Manager with responsibility for Bipolar RAMs, ROMs and programmable logic.
Rick Rasmussen’s Education
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Columbia University - Columbia Business School
MBA , Finance , 2004 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Dean's List, Venture Capital Club
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University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
MBA , Marketing, Entrepreneurship , 2004 — 2005
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Foothill College
Radio Broadcasting & Engineering 2001 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- High Honors, DJ and Publicity Director for KFJC 89.7 FM
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University of California, Berkeley
BS , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , 1977 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- Graduated Highest Honors, Eta Kappa Nu (electrical and computer engineering honor society), Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society).
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Economics of Consumer Behavior
