Mr. Richards is a Managing Partner at Sverica Capital Management. He currently serves on the boards of Coastal Cloud, iWave Information Systems, Gryphon Networks, Quest Education and Stream Companies. Mr. Richards is a former Director of 7Summits which was sold to IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Bartech Group which was sold to Impellam Group PLC (LON: IPEL). Mr. Richards has nearly two decades of private equity and public equity investing experience at JP Morgan Partners, Citadel Investment Group and Pequot Capital Management. Over the course of his career, Mr. Richards has invested in many different businesses and industries including business services, software, general industrial and manufacturing, technology media and telecom, retail and alternative energy.  At Sverica, Mr. Richards is focused on business and technology services. A native of the northeast, Mr. Richards earned his BA in Government from Dartmouth College and his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.