Richard

 Name
Richard

 Position
Board Advisor

 Location
Suffolk

Big Business Experience

The Financial Times

BBC Worldwide Publications.

 

Summary

Serial entrepreneur & innovator with over 35 years experience of founding, managing and growing successful businesses. Designed, negotiated and sold multi-million pound deals to major organisations across the globe for over 25 years.

Senior executive management and main board experience (Technical Director, Managing Director, and Chairman) in a number of companies. Significant amount of experience in sales and developing sales teams. In less than six years grew the Hyphen group of companies from a start up to annual revenues of 80 million dollars via organic growth.

Qualifications

BSC Honours in Industrial Mathematics, Loughborough University.

Key Areas of Expertise

  • Software Development.
  • Sales and Marketing.
  • Product Development.
  • Application of technology for significant commercial advantage.
  • Managing software and hardware development teams.
  • Main board experience. Managing Director, Technical Director, Chairman and Advisory Board.
  • Significant experience in start-ups.
  • Have founded & grown several start-ups to successful highly profitable enterprises via organic growth.

Experience

Have extensive experience in:-

  • Managing Software/Product Development.
  • Sales and Marketing.
  • Application of technology for significant commercial advantage.
  • Main board experience. Managing Director, Technical Director, Chairman and Advisory Board.

Have all the experience battle scars. Everybody makes mistakes the important thing is to learn from them.

Not afraid to ask “Why are doing it this way?” or “Why are you doing this at all?”

In less than six years grew the Hyphen group from a start-up to annual revenues of $80 million via organic growth. Founder of Cascade group that grew in less than four years to an annual 25 million dollar turnover – again via organic growth. Cascade was purchase by Engage Inc. for 250 million dollars.

Recognised as among the first in the media industry to recognise the impact the Internet would have on both the entertainment/news medium and the content/advertising value chain. Also was among the first to recognise the importance digital music would have in changing the economics of the music industry.

Experienced is dealing with eternal funding sources both Angel and Venture capital.