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Brand and Innovation Consulting; leading a group of selected consultants on a project basis to help companies organise their brand, innovation strategy, approach, projects, and plans . The methodology come from 20 years of innovating and is appropriately lean and bespoke; ensuring we can deliver what will make a real difference to each organisations innovation objectives and investment.

Working with A really exciting start up to help launch what is a game changing technology!Leading Strategy and Finance for the management teamRewritten the business plan, business strategy, investment strategy, and financial forecast modelGreat!

Launched the London operations to provide a base for EMEA consultancy services for IdeaCouture. Researched, approached and negotiated a merger with an established boutique consultancy in London 2011.Director of Idea couture London 2011 - 2016Integration lead for idea couture London after acquisition by cognizant systems (2016)Head of idea couture Europe 2017 - 2019 as part of Cognizant Digital Business.Consultancy client experience includes Pepsi, Tesco, Vans, Lee Wrangler, The North Face, Bata footwear, Lululemon, Whirlpool, Ferring Pharmaceutical, Cisco Systems and many more. Specialism: Innovation Strategy and Innovation Process development. Focused on learnings from the start up and entrepreneurial approach to innovation, and on creating value from human research.

PLEASE CHECK PUBLICATIONS BELOW:Invented, patented and raised significant finance for a materials technology, and led the goto-market strategy as a consumer brand, developing a 25 strong team and profitable business. The key Management Team are still in place (2016). He achieved for d3o 12 TV appearances (CNN, Discovery Channel, CNBC, BBC, FUJI, Nippon, ITV) and over 300 press articles per year (FT, NY Times, The Week, Guardian, Time magazine, Independent, Telegraph, Asia Business Weekly, GQ, FHM, Wired Magazine) This led to significant incoming enquiries for strategic market development, achieving sales growth of approximately 100% year on year with minimum marketing budget. d3o has been adopted by a large number of sports brands (Puma, The North Face, Scott, Head, Burton, CAT, Spyder, and many more) in products ranging from footballs, ski race suits, and even ballet shoes it is patented and sold in over 50 countries. The brand & trademark has been an integral part of the marketing strategy, and is now a well recognised consumer name in impact protection, and continues to attract customers in a wide variety of applications from sports, to electronics and military. Richard recruited and groomed a replacement CEO Stuart Sawyer initially as a consultant to lead the company, and remained a director; wishing to focus on new challenges as the company was established with a coherent strategy, brand and customer base. To take d3o from the Laboratory to the position it is today Richard raised significant finance, from Europe and the US, and sold his own house to help fund the business in the early days.

Founded innovation consultancy based on proprietary innovation model, clients included Levis Strauss, Herman Miller, and Du Pont. Projects ranged from consumer to interior space. Designed and built studio in London that featured a novel use of 3D space with working desks at 2m high and tall chairs which won the 2001 Times & Gestetner Digitial Office award, competing against large architectural projects (Sainsbury's, Ted Baker) now featured in a book. The work undertaken involved exploring product gaps in the market & material properties and this led to the development of d3o™.

Developed my creativity at the RCA, projects included developing an award winning cafe table that focused on social inclusion, by allowing users to more comfortably control their position at the table. The commercial benefit was greater seat efficiency with less table 'ownership' and redundancy for cafe profitability

Led and developed the commercial consultancy for the Design & Engineering department, and ran a large number of projects using the Universities facilities and expertise with large clients including Matra Marconi, Du Pont and Textron. Lectured in Design, Innovation and Structures

In charge of new application developments for the Engineering Polymers department in Scandinavia, based in Goteborg this involved working with automotive manufacturers and first tier suppliers to develop new beneficial applications for Du Pont materials and nurture long term client relationships to ensure commercial success and loyalty. The projects utilised the resources of the polymer development department in Geneva, and the design department in UK to offer new solutions (e.g. car radiators).