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Rick Kimball

Rick, a Founding General Partner of TCV, has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over twenty years. Rick has led or co-led TCV investments in Allbusiness.com (sold to NBCi), Alteon WebSystems (sold to Nortel), Clarus Corporation, Copper Mountain Networks, CosmoCom, Egenera, INFOnxx, LHS Group (sold to Sema Group), Liquidnet, RiskMetrics, Saville Systems (sold to ADC Telecommunications), Solect Technology Group (sold to Amdocs), Techwell, Vastera, XIOtech (sold to Seagate) and Xylan (sold to Alcatel), among others. Preceding TCV, Rick was a Managing Director at Montgomery Securities, where he spent over 10 years focusing on telecommunications and data communications as both a venture capitalist and senior equity research analyst. As a senior securities analyst, he played a pivotal role in identifying, sourcing and executing several preeminent initial public offerings, including StrataCom, Chipcom and FORE Systems. Rick's research received number one Institutional rankings from Greenwich Associates and "Home Run Hitter" accolades from Institutional Investor Magazine for his timely buy call on StrataCom, the top-performing growth stock of 1994. Rick graduated Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with an A.B. degree in History and received his M.B.A. with an emphasis in finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently on the Board of Directors of several private companies. Rick also serves as a Trustee for Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco, California.