Rich Plante
- Former President & COO of Encad Inc., the NASDAQ-listed wide-format color printing company in San Diego
- Helped grow Encad's annual sales from $65.5M (1995) to a record $149M (1997), with OEM deals alongside Xerox and Kodak
- Elected to Encad's board of directors in 1996; earlier led product development as a VP at CalComp
- Junior college basketball All-American, then basketball and baseball at Oregon State
- Slow-pitch softball legend: 1,288 career home runs and two Halls of Fame


