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Rick Stamberger is president and CEO of SmartBrief. He has spent much of his career at the intersection of the business, public policy and nonprofit sectors. Prior to founding SmartBrief, Rick was a founding partner of Quest Partners LLC, a management consultancy based in Cambridge, Mass. Quest developed the wireless industry's first online information service. He also served as a principal of National Strategies, Inc., a business and public policy consulting firm specializing in telecommunications and technology issues. Rick served as executive vice president and a director of a Washington, D.C.- based technology firm owned by nine cable television companies and NBC. He began his career in Washington with the National Cable Television Association. He was also deputy director of a successful U.S. Senate campaign in California. He served as a White House Fellow in 1984-85 in the Office of the Vice President. Rick serves as Chairman of the Board and in independent trustee of the Van Eck Funds, a family of mutual funds. He has been an active board member of numerous nonprofit organizations focused on leadership development and youth service. These include Greater DC Cares Inc., the CORO Foundation and Youth Service America. He was the executive producer of "John Gardner, Uncommon American," a documentary for public television that aired in 2001. Rick earned his BA from Williams College and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. | 