Rick Burnes
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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
Current Projects
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Broadsoft
BroadSoft provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its award-winning flagship BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft’s family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world’s leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to 7 of the top 10 and 13 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including Korea Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to http://www.BroadSoft.com.
06/16/2010
BroadSoft, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering more
07/17/2007
BroadSoft Accepts $10 Million in Mezzanine Equity Financing more
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