Richard Hearn

Richard is a senior advisor as well as both a serial entrepreneur and global Fortune 500 executive having successfully founded and led startups and established businesses in the Marketing, Commerce, SaaS and SI/Agency world.
Richard was the Founder and CEO of Crown (SI/Digital Agency) which was acquired by Razorfish where he served as Global President, Razorfish Commerce.
After Razorfish, Richard served as GM, Global Revenue & Product of IBM's Watson Customer Engagement (Commerce) business unit ($1.5b).
Richard also recently served as the CEO of PE backed FPX, a B2B Commerce SaaS software company where he supported a turnaround and recent successful exit.
Companies under his leadership have gained national recognition for growth and innovation including: Software Magazine's "Software 500"? fastest growing private/public Software company for 2008, 2009 and 2010; Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 100"? company for fastest growing emerging business for 2005 & 2006; and Inc. Magazine's "Inc 500/5000" fastest growing private company for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2012.
Richard has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue University, a Master’s in Business Administration from The Ohio State University, and is active on many civic, corporate and charity boards, including serving on the Board of Directors for Pencils of Promise.