Over $250 Billion in Revenue Generated For Companies Owned and Advised.

Rick Barnum is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BIG venture capital. He is personally responsible for the generation of over $250 Billion in top-line revenue for the companies he has owned, led and advised. Rick is considered to be an expert in the fields of Business Operations/Management, Branding, Positioning, Traditional and Digital Advertising, Neuro Science Based Content Development, Social Media, Search and E-commerce. He also has extensive experience in Mergers/Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Venture Capital.

Prior to establishing BIG venture capital, Rick was the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive of RBG Worldwide Advertising - a worldwide digital and traditional advertising agency that produces not only dramatic awareness, but more importantly, accountable, predictive, profitable, and deep 'brand engagements'. RBG has been called the 'Money-ball of Advertising' by Tim Draper- one of the most successful venture capitalists in world. RBG has a wealth of industry envied proprietary software designed to eliminate all media waste, creative waste, promotion waste, and deliver dramatic real-time results and extraordinary ROI for its clients. RBG is an agency of strategists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, and neuroscientists -who were educated at universities like Harvard and Brown- combined with some of the most brilliant creative minds in the country. RBG was built in Silicon Valley- the leading hub for high-tech innovation, home to the world's most influential technology companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter-who are friends and advocates.

Before RBG Worldwide, Rick was an executive partner in a national advertising agency, an executive vice president of sales and marketing for a leading national consumer products company. He has also owned and operated several businesses and acquired commercial real estate assets.