Richard V. Spencer
Richard V. Spencer is the former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE-ICE) the leading electronic commodity futures exchange. He served in that capacity from November 2001 through January 2008. While at ICE he was responsible for the transition of the company from private to public, including recruiting the Board, the initial public offering and the subsequent three secondary offerings, financial reporting, strategy development and implementation, and human resources. Prior to that Richard was the President of Crossroads Investment Management LLC a leading venture capital and private equity fund of funds investment firm. Crossroads grew from $670MM of assets under management to over $2 billion during his tenure. He joined Crossroads in 1998 after working on Wall Street for 15 years for A.G. Becker, Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs, Bear Sterns, Merrill Lynch and Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette. During that period his responsibilities centered on investment banking services focusing on strategic advisory services and capital markets underwriting.