COUNCIL TRUSTEES
Mr. Richard A. Carpenter
President, Carpenter Associates
Rich Carpenter is president of Carpenter Associates, a consulting firm which provides strategic planning, business development and product marketing assistance to early stage software and internet companies. He also serves as Chairmain of the Board of Corex Technologies, makers of CARDSCAN. He also co-founded Heathcourt Technologies, now a part of Softwatch.
Prior to co-founding these ventures, Carpenter had co-founded Index Systems (later known as CSC/Index) in 1969 and then co-founded Index Technology in 1983 where he served as Chairman/CEO until the merger with Sage in 1991 to form Intersolv (subsequently known as Merant).
Carpenter received the SB and SM degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, a trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, a founding member of the CommonAngels and a director of the Software Division of ITAA. He serves on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several software and internet companies and is also active in several non-profit organizations.
