Richard is Chief Revenue Officer at RhythmOne, responsible for global growth of the business with accountability for comprehensive revenue streams, scaling RhythmOne’s unified programmatic platform and extending the Company’s commercial footprint into global markets. He oversees Supply & Demand sales teams, Account Management and AdOps functions. Prior to joining RhythmOne, Richard spent five years as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of two programmatic advertising technology start-ups – Coull (Video Advertising) and Powerlinks (Native Advertising), where he helped commercialize, scale and increase the capital value by 5x and 3x respectively. Previously, Richard spent three years as a Technology Investment Banker at Charles Stanley Securities, where he completed nine transactions during his tenure. Earlier, Richard spent over 16 years serving in senior executive roles globally for agency holding groups such as WPP, Omnicom, Publicis and IPG. Richard originally qualified as an accountant (ACCA) at Baker Tilly Accountants, having previously studied at City of London Business School, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Finance. He also completed an advanced management training program at Harvard University while at Omnicom.