BIO
Rich Moore is a founder and principal of New Venture Communications. At NVC, he applies his more than two decades of experience in strategic communications, public relations and marketing to help accelerate the growth and value of technology companies of all stages, from startups to Fortune 100 corporations.
He’s been working with a select group of formative-stage companies that include a payment processing supplier recently acquired by an international bank and business process outsourcer, a fixed-content storage company now in registration for an IPO, and a spinout of Fujitsu who for several years was competing with IBM, then was suing them, and then was acquired by them. “That last one was a real mind-bender!”
BACKGROUND & RELATIONSHIPS
- As co-founder and principal of NVC, Rich over the past four years has helped build the outbound communications program for Regulus, the nation’s largest payment processor who was recently acquired by 3i Infotech; lead the team that is helping elevate the competitive position of Nexsan, a rising fixed-content storage provider; and orchestrated the communications strategy and execution for Platform Solutions, makers of the first ‘open mainframes’ who was acquired by IBM in 2008.
- Venture Partner for three years beginning in 2000 at Battery Ventures,
a leading venture capital firm, where he guided general partners and
portfolio company CEOs on various strategic communications and marketing
activities. Among the companies Rich worked with were Corillian (Nasdaq:
CORI), empowerTel (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor), Enosys (acquired
by BEA Systems), and Aurora Networks.
- One of four co-founding partners of Copithorne & Bellows, a high tech PR specialty firm that for 11 years he helped grow into a global agency with more than 300 people in 13 offices and worldwide billings of approximately $40 million. C&B was acquired by Omnicom in 1999. Major clients included Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Iomega, Network Associates, Oracle, Xerox, among others. During this time Rich lead the teams that worked with SanDisk and NeoMagic as startups, and with HP when they entered the handheld and mobile computing markets.
- VP & General Manager at Miller Communications, a leading high tech PR firm where Rich spent five years in a variety of senior positions, joining them in 1983 when they were but six people, had Compaq and Lotus Development as startups, and were yet to be acquired by Shandwick. It was at Miller that Rich worked with Compaq Computer from startup through its IPO and on beyond the $1 billion revenue mark.
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