Rhie brings more than 20 years of experience in general management, marketing, and product development. His technology expertise ranges from the internet, client/server database, desktop software and computer telephony. As the president of ThinkFree.com, a Silicon Valley-based ASP, Rhie has raised over $20 million in venture financing and worked with ASPšs and portals to offer ThinkFree Office application services.

Prior to founding of ThinkFree.com, he had built an Internet startup (NetPhonic Communications), which was acquired by General Magic. He is helping silicon valley start-ups with his combined experiences in marketing, management and entrepreneurial challenges.

Before founding NetPhonic Communications, Rhie was a General Manager with Fremont, Calif.-based Voysys Corporation where he managed both engineering and marketing teams. Before that, he was Director of Product Marketing at Software Publishing Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif., where he managed marketing activities for Harvard Graphics and Superbase database. Prior to that, he was Director of Product Marketing at Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, Calif., where he directed product management and marketing programs for Q&A and development tools including Symantec C++. Rhie spent five years with Borland and Ashton-Tate where he was a Business Unit Manager and Group Product Manager directing dBase products.

Rhie earned a BA in Economics from Northwestern University (1978) and an MBA from Harvard University (1981).