Hi, I'm Rick Drain. Welcome to my web page.

 That's me. That's my boat, my home, Espire.

There are other photos in the travel and sailing trip sections.

Care to chat? Send an email.

Recently I finished the MBA program at .

Our Capstone team:

 Me, Shweta Jain, Shilpa Mohan, Jeff Riley, Anh Nguyen, Mamadou Gning

      I'm starting a mutual fund company.

     You can read about Longsplice Investments   at its website, or read about the process and progress in my weblog.   Meanwhile I'll keep writing my monthly investing newsletters.

My last engineering job before business school was at Paradise Electronics ,

which merged with Genesis Microchip ,   which in turn was just (2008) bought by ST Microelectronics.

  In 1996-7, I took a year off, sailing around the northeast Pacific rim.

My interests include:

Reading,

Sailing

on my 1965 wooden boat Espire,

Will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats?  He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. -- Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

with the Peninsula Yacht Club

travel,

driving my 914,

riding my 1975 Bonneville,

and music.

Groups for which I volunteer:

Comments, suggestions, and conversation are welcome at rick @ ricks-cafe.net