Rick serves on several non-profit organizations working with K-12 education in the San Diego area after retiring from a long career in high-technology, mainly computer science research and innovation at Xerox PARC and the University of Waterloo. Rick has been a member of the board of the Classroom of the Future Foundation since 2000 and the Innovation Wizard of the Innovation Office since 2003. Rick also serves as the CFO of the San Diego Science Alliance and the K-12 subcommittee chair of the Science and Technology Working Group of the The San Diego Foundation. When not in San Diego, Rick flies his Cirrus SR22 to Northern California where he owns forested property overlooking the ocean and he dabbles in digital cinema at the Arena Theater in Point Arena, CA.