Rick Gibson

Rick Gibson has had 46-year career building businesses, founded/co-founded several successful technology companies and advised over (75) others. Rick is a Senior Investor Partner at Sustainability Partners (SP), an investor in large infrastructure projects for municipalities, universities, schools, hospitals, airports and other public entities. SP has dozens of well-known customers with over $500M in projects underway. SP provides HVAC, boilers, chillers, LED lighting, windows, roofs, motors, pumps, meters, elevators, solar, broadband, EV’s, water and waste systems, all with zero customer capital, via a month-to-month utility service agreement. This is completely off-balance-sheet, not debt, and covers maintenance costs, known as “Infrastructure-As-A-Service”.

Since 1999, Rick has served as Managing Director of HOTventures, a “mentor capital fund” for the Southwest U.S., that invests in/advises fast-growth companies, in domains from Ballistic Armor to Agriculture, including IT, Healthcare, Sustainability and Media. Rick’s been involved with several companies including Idealab, the world’s leading tech incubator in the 1990’s. Rick participated in strategic planning with the ten original Idealab CEOs. Idealab created several well-known technology companies including: Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $1.6B), United Online (was NetZero and Juno), Aptera, Internet Brands, CitySearch, Energy Innovations, eSolar, Picasa, Tickets.com, eToys and Evolution Robotics.

Rick wrote for Inc.com for several years see: www.inc.com/author/rick-gibson and a long-time columnist for BizAZ magazine. Rick has been an investor, advisor or board member in dozens of innovation companies. Over the years Rick has been a part of some very exciting companies and his knowledge and expertise in the Infrastructure space is unparalleled.