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Richard’s background in the Business World |
Richard chairs the Outsourcing & Offshore Group of the UK IT, Telecoms and
Electronic industries trade association, Intellect. He is also a member of
Intellect’s Private Sector Panel, and of Intellect’s Professionalism Working
Group
www.intellectuk.org
Richard is also an active member of the International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals (IAOP):
www.outsourcingprofessional.org
He is non-executive Chairman of Solcom ltd, the software consultancy and project
implementation business specialised in the nuclear medicine manufacturing
process industry.
www.solcom.com
Richard is a member of the Advisory Board of Quickstart Global:
www.quickstartglobal.com
Since 2005, Richard has worked part time as an Associate of CSC’s Leading Edge
Forum:
www.csc.com/aboutus/lef/index.shtml
Between 1999 and 2004 Richard was Chairman of Morgan Chambers plc, Europe’s
leading independent strategic consultancy in ICT service and business process (BPO)
sourcing & outsourcing.
www.morganchambers.com
Between 2000 and 2004 he was also non-executive chairman of SiteConfidence Ltd,
the UK's leading web-site performance monitoring company.
www.siteconfidence.com
During the 1990’s Richard was Group Vice President IT at the UK international
chemical major, ICI plc, where he lead a major restructuring of ICI’s corporate
ICT based on an extensive programme of outsourcing and delegation back into the
businesses of ICI. In earlier years he held senior commercial and business
leadership roles in ICI’s chemicals & plastics businesses, including in Asia,
where he lived and worked in Japan as Regional General Manager of ICI’s
speciality plastic film business ‘Melinex’ and a board director of ICI Japan,
implementing a £55m investment in ICI’s first 100% owned manufacturing facility
in Japan.
Richard plays a wider role in the ICT industry as observer and critical commentator |
He is a regular public speaker at ICT industry events. He takes a critical, informed and sceptical approach to the apparent bounty that the industry professes to offer. His particular emphasis is on the need for the industry to mature from an overly technology-focused youngster into a maturer, high reliability supplier of services that tightly align to end user needs: and on the non-technical roots of business value-add and competitive ‘edge’.
Richard is a Trustee of the charity HumanITy, which supports work devoted to
tackling the issues of the digital divide and social exclusion.
www.humanity.org.uk
He has also recently joined the Editorial Board at the ICT industry news service
silicon.com .
www.silicon.com
Richard’s involvement in the Arts World |
Richard and his wife Penny Mason are significant collectors of contemporary art and are active in the arts world through membership of groups such as the Contemporary Arts Society, ArtsAngel, Sadlers' Wells, The Almeida Theatre, The Tate, The Hayward Gallery and the Whitechapel Gallery. They are also architectural enthusiasts and are currently working with architect Niall McLaughlin on a major refurbishment of their home, a Georgian Terrace house dating from 1793 in the Angel, Islington area of London.
Richard is Chairman of the De La Warr Pavilion Charitable Trust at the UK south coast resort of Bexhill on Sea. Here Richard leads the development of the premier centre for the visual & performing arts on the UK south east coast, with a £7.5m refurbishment programme now underway. www.dlwp.com.
Richard has also recently joined a small appeal advisory group at Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/
