Richard Leavitt

Richard is a technology strategist and start-up veteran with over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of building B2B software companies and launching new products into emerging markets. Schooled in electrical engineering at CU Boulder, Richard’s career in product management, marketing and sales has focused on securing venture financing and growing 5 companies and a dozen product families from $0 revenue.

Richard is currently Chief Marketing Officer at AlchemyAPI (recently acquired by IBM Watson), a creator of artificial intelligence web services for natural language understanding and computer vision. Prior to AlchemyAPI, Richard was the EVP of Worldwide Marketing at Rally Software (NYSE: RALY) where he helped the company grow from eight people through its successful IPO in 2013. In 2002, Richard was VP Product Management for Insightful Corp (Tibco), and earlier in his career Richard left Hewlett Packard’s test and measurement group to become a co-founder and founding executive at three Colorado start-ups including Mobilize, Requisite (IBM Rational) and Software Edge (Serena).