I'm the founder of Ryze, a leading business networking service.

I've previously done Internet technology consulting to companies including Charles Schwab & Co., Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and several startups. I later co-founded a startup called Flycode, which was formerly known as AppleSoup. Prior to that I was a Cadet Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, Air Force Auxiliary, at age 17, and earned a Math Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at age 20.

Best wishes,
Adrian

P.S. My Ryze page is here

Interesting Things

Some things I'm particularly interested in these days:

Finance: Behavioral Finance, Structure of Markets, Manias/Booms/Busts, Private Equity Transactions, History, Trading Systems, Investment Strategies

Technology: FPGA's, Dynamic Silicon, Storage, Caching, Microprocessors, Optics, Quantum Theory, MEMS, Databases, Software Development Standards

Health Sciences: Preventative Medicine, Nutrition, Exercise, Evolutionary Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Protein Folding

Private Portfolio

Private startups I have invested in or advise:

  Napster, MP3 Sharing

  Starmine, Measuring Analyst Performance

  On24, Webcasting Solutions Provider

  Matisse Software, SQL-Object Programmable Data Server (formerly Fresher)

  Qusion Technologies, Integrated Photonic Components

  MobShop, Group Buying (formerly Accompany)

Liquidity

Some of the companies I've invested in that have had liquidity events:

  Giganet, acquired by publicly-traded Emulex