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Rich Sorkin is a Silicon Valley based serial entrepreneur, executive, advisor, board member and investor, with total exits exceeding $1 billion and a track record of scaling revenue from $0-20M and $100-$800M. For over 20 years, he has led breakthrough companies commercializing transformative technologies, most recently in Big Data predictive analytics with a focus on the environment, financial services, energy and politics. Rich cofounded several companies recently, including Jupiter, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/climate/mapping-future-climate-risk.html, and FlexSchool where he successfully led the financing. Previously he co-founded one of the pioneering companies using satellite data and scalable cloud computing to predict weather events for commodity traders as well as the company that was one of the earliest to use analytics to catch identity theft. Rich is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company best known for analytics and visualization of geospatial data. He ran the Sound Blaster business at Creative Labs during the time it gained market dominance growing the business units under his direction from under $100M to close to $1 billion in revenues. Rich's prior experience includes NASA (as an intern in 1981, working on space debris tracking and the budget for the space station), Goldman Sachs (helped initiate research coverage of supercomputers), Bain (focused on information services), Kaggle (President, built and managed relationships with top global financial services and energy firms) and Ashton-Tate (database visualization tools). He has served as a Board Member at private and public companies, the Yale Development Board, and several community nonprofits. Extensive political experience includes advocacy work in Congress.