This is my second investment in a venture lead by Jon Golovin. Once again Jon has assembled an experienced management team to tackle an emerging market.
-Bob Todd, Managing Partner of Red Rock Ventures
Richard Swan, Ph.D.
Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Richard Swan is the CTO and co-founder of Retail Solutions.
Immediately prior to forming Retail Solutions, Richard was Technical Director for Auto-ID at SAP. At SAP, Richard created and led the team that established SAP as an early leader in responding to the opportunity presented by RFID. These projects included a joint pilot with Procter & Gamble and a major retailer that tracked cosmetic products at a fine grain level from manufacturer to store shelf and closed the loop with an adaptive supply chain driven directly by consumer demand. Another pilot application was with Metro, Europe's largest retailer. This project included tagging most dry goods at the case level and three different smart shelves at the item level. This project won the Wall Street Journal's 2003 Innovation Award. Richard was appointed by SAP's internal Executive Board to lead the technical product strategy for RFID.
Richard was also Vice President of VLSI Test Systems at Megatest Corporation (now Teradyne) where he led the development of an industry leading "tester-per-pin" architecture system adopted by leading semiconductor companies including IBM and Texas Instruments. Richard also led Digital Equipment Corporation's (now HP) Western Research Laboratory and created DEC's Network Systems Lab.
Richard holds a B.S. from the University of Essex in England and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.