MEET THE CRV TEAM
Rick Burnes
781-768-6000
Email Rick
Areas of greatest interest
Communications
Information services
Track record
Concord Communications - IPO 1997, acquired by Computer Associates, 2007
Sonus Networks - IPO 2000, (Nasdaq: SONS)
Abacus Direct - IPO 1996, acquired by DoubleClick, 1999
Aptis - acquired by Northern Telecom, 1998
Prominet - acquired by Lucent Technologies, 1998
Summa Four - IPO 1993, acquired by Cisco, 1998
Cascade Communications - IPO 1994, Acquired by Ascend Communications, 1997
Chipcom - IPO 1991, acquired by 3Com, 1995
Epoch Systems - acquired by EMC, 1993
What he does for fun
Chairman, Boston Museum of Science
Chairman, The Entrepreneur’s Foundation of New England
Vice-Chair, Sea Education Association
Director, The Boston Foundation
Joined CRV
Co-founder of firm, 1970
Education
MBA, Boston University
BA, History, Harvard University
