Ric Upton

Ric is a founder of Gloucester Innovation, LLC focused on bringing innovation and technology to coastal communities on Massachusetts’ North Shore. His prior experience includes President of Near Infinity Corporation(Reston, VA), a small business specializing in cloud, mobile and enterprise software solutions, Executive-in-Residence with General Catalyst Partners, a $3.0B venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA, and Executive Vice President for Healthcare Informatics and Intelligence with BBN Technologies (now a part of Raytheon Corporation).

Ric has been involved in the development and growth of technology-based businesses for more than 30 years. Ric served as an Executive Vice President for Strategic Development at Pixel Forensics, Inc., where he focused on accelerating the growth of the company by expanding its offerings and partnerships in multimedia analytics and visual big data mining to customers in national security, defense, homeland security and law enforcement, as well as commercial markets.

Ric also served as an advisor to Accuvant, a leading source for enterprise security solutions, Privaris, aprovider of biometric security solutions for physical and logical access, theComputer Science Department, University of Maryland and the Bourne Schoolof Engineering, UC Riverside. Ric holds advanced degrees in ComputerScience from the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania.