Rich’s 35 year career has encompassed roles in Software Development, Pre-Sales, Operations and Human Resources. He possesses extensive Venture Capital and Private Equity backed growth company experience in multiple countries. His first role was with Cap Gemini as a software developer working on trading systems at the London Stock Exchange. He quickly progressed into technical management roles, and throughout an eight year stint at Informix in the 1990’s he managed IT Operations and Pre-Sales teams as the organisation scaled rapidly. Rich was the second salaried employee in EMEA for Kana, a Silicon Valley start-up which grew exponentially and IPO’d in the dot.com boom. His most recent senior leadership positions have also been in fast scaling technology organisations. At OpenBet, he spent two years as Head of Operations, then six as VP Human Resources, helping the organisation scale 10x in headcount supporting a workforce distributed across Europe and North America. At Egress, where he spent seven and a half years as Chief People Officer, Rich built the people and culture organisation from scratch and was part of the leadership team that drove a 20x increase in revenues.
Rich holds a Bachelor degree in Computing and Informatics from the University of Plymouth, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. When he is not working, Rich can usually be found either cycling or gardening. He is also an avid supporter of Watford FC where he is a season ticket holder.
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