Rick Farnell

Rick Farnell has a successful track record as an entrepreneur, executive and operator of a number of global technology companies. Rick founded Rapid Formation which helps incubate, fund and scale startup technology companies. Rick was the Co-Founder and President of Think Big Analytics, a big data analytics pioneer, acquired by Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC). Rick is an advisor to Teradata Corporation, where most recently, he served as Senior Vice President responsible for Teradata’s global consulting business made up of over 5,000 consultants working across 75 countries. Prior to co-founding Think Big Analytics, Rick spent over 20 years in a variety of executive management positions in sales, business development, alliances and consulting for industry leaders such as C-Bridge Internet Solutions (NASDAQ: PRGS) and Sun Microsystems (NYSE: ORCL). At Sun, Rick led the cloud and open source software go-to-market strategy with Amazon Web Services and was involved in the acquisition and integration of software companies SeeBeyond and MySQL. Rick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University. Specialties and interests: Incubation and start-up ventures, private equity, acquisition, board of directors, board of advisors, corporate strategy, sales, marketing, channels, operations, organization strategy, consulting, data science, blockchain, Big Data, predictive analytics, A.I. / Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning and A.O. / Analytic Operations.