Rick Hood
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Richard Hood graduated with a BS from Brown University in 1979 and an MS from MIT in 1981.
In 1981 he entered the family marine business, The Ted Hood Companies, located in Marblehead, MA which later relocated to Portsmouth, RI in 1986. He was President of that business from 1991 until 1999 when it was sold to the investment group Bain Willard Companies, LP who had earlier bought a competitor, Hinckley Yachts.
In 2000 Richard left the company to launch a new career in freelance web development, video and graphic design. Most of that time he developed web sites from scratch using ASP and Flash, but switched to PHP & Drupal (and still Flash) in 2006.