Richard is currently the head of a London based private equity company and business media company specialising in UK Small & Medium sized business. He is also a keynote speaker, investor, business mentor, board member of a number of new-start companies, parish councillor, school governor and a Freeman of the City of London.
Richard heads up the business media publishing and research companyCapital Business Media which has offices in London & New York.
The company owns the UKs leading monthly business magazine Business Matters, the global fund management multimedia title Fund Manager Today and Angels – the business based leisure lifestyle for high-net-worth individuals who have a interest in business angel investments.
Capital Business Media also has a separate research division, Trends Research, which has fast become a specialist in online surveying providing qualitative & quantitative research to clients like O2, BT, Business Link, IBM, DSGi, and E.ON.
Capital Business Media also recently launched the Business Champion awards programme to celebrate and reward the UKs best small and medium sized businesses. The program is judged by a panel of some of the UKs high profile and leading entrepreneurs and culminates in a gala black tie awards evening held at the lavish surroundings of the East Wintergarden at Canary Wharf in London.
Richard was named by The Observer newspaper & The Courvoisier Future 500 as ‘someone to watch’ in their top 100 business people.
Richard was also very honoured to be given Freedom of the City of London in May 2011 and a Fellowship to the RSA in July 2011.
Richard is Vice Chairman of the Parish Councillor for Chigwell in Essex and Chairman of the areas Planning Committee and Parish Plan Committee looking at taking Chigwell forward over the next 5 years and beyond.
Richard is also a Governor of West Hatch school in Chigwell, Essex and chair of the Davenant Foundation Business Partnership scheme.
When he isn’t doing all of that Richard can be found on a Saturday sitting on the edge of his seat in the West Upper stand at White Hart Lane cheering on Tottenham Hotspur.