Rich was the second Fellow at Rambus contributing to lighting, RRAM and new memory technologies.
Next Sierra was a fabless semiconductor company which developed display drivers for active matrix OLED.
Before founding Sierra, Rich was a co-founder and the Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NeXT Computer, Inc.
His experience in hardware and software design includes the development of microcode for Hewlett-Packard's HP 3000 minicomputer series.
Rich is chairman of the board at Chowbotics Inc, a start-up building food robotics products.