Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Richard spent 4 years as the Chief Revenue Officer at Smarter.com (part of MeziMedia which was acquired by ValueClick in July 2007) focusing on driving traffic to the site through search marketing. During this time he has overseen Smarter’s profitable revenue growth of over 3,000%, and in 2006, the site was named by ComScore to have the second largest exposure of search ad impressions in the US.

Prior to Smarter.com, Richard spent 7 years with Yahoo Search Marketing (previously GoTo.com / Overture). At GoTo.com, Richard started as the first Product Manager and spent his last 5 years as VP of Business Operations, overseeing the business metrics and leading analyses to provide insight and recommendations to the executive team, ultimately producing more than $1 Billion in incremental revenues.

Mr. Chino has both an MBA and a Masters of Engineering Management from Northwestern University and a BA in Economics and Accounting and Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College.