Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focusing on investments in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. At Glasswing, Rick has led investments and serves on the Board of Directors of Allure Security, Black Kite, Flux, Lambent, Nametag, Realm Security and Trustle, and previously Terbium Labs (acquired by Deloitte.) As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has invested in some of the most dynamic companies in security, storage, analytics and SaaS applications during his 23 years in the venture capital industry. In his previous role as Managing Director and co-founder at Fairhaven Capital, Rick led investments and served on the Board of Directors of Digital Guardian (acquired by HelpSystems), EqualLogic (acquired by Dell), Prelert (acquired by Elastic), Resilient Systems (acquired by IBM), TrackVia (acquired by Primus Capital) and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital). He also has deep operating experience, having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi), ClearOne Communications (acquired by Gentner Communications, later renamed as ClearOne), and PictureTel (acquired by Polycom). Rick is a member of the Educational Council at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is active with the entrepreneurial programs at Harvard (Venture Advisor at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship), MIT (Board Member of the MIT Sandbox and an MIT iHQ Mentor) and Northeastern, and is a frequent judge at MassChallenge. Rick’s contributions to the broader community include serving as a member of the Board of the Advanced Cyber Security Center, New England’s public/private security collaboration. He is active at the Museum of Science in Boston, having served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Advisors, and with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts, where he served on the Board of Directors. Rick holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard, and holds a United States Patent.