Richard is the Chief Executive Officer of Quantori, a data sciences and digital transformation company focused on the life sciences and healthcare sectors. The company serves clients globally on an outsourced basis with innovative solutions for data engineering, data management, and data analytics. Quantori’s leadership team has worked together for over 25 years to deliver superior client service, winning widespread industry recognition for technical excellence and innovation.

Richard served as Global Head of the Life Sciences Business Unit at EPAM Systems, one of the fastest growing publicly traded technology firms in America. EPAM has over 35,000 professionals worldwide focused on developing innovative technology solutions to help clients improve their competitiveness.During Richard's tenure, the Life Sciences Business Unit became the fastest growing unit at EPAM, working with pharmaceutical, medical device, and scientific instrumentation companies, as well as the software and publishing companies associated with the life sciences industry.Engagements addressed scientific informatics, genomics, digital engagement, enterprise IT, and data analytics to help clients navigate successfully through multiple waves of technology change. Among Richard's clients were nine of the ten largest global pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, Merck, and Novartis.

In 2001, Richard co-founded GGA Software Services, an outsourcing company that specialized in scientific informatics services for life science companies, serving at its president and chief executive officer from inception. Under Richard's leadership, GGA built a reputation for innovation and client satisfaction, winning numerous accolades and industry awards, and was acquired by EPAM in 2014 as the foundation for its entry into the life sciences industry. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and with a 650-person development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, GGA focused on bringing together science, mathematics, and software engineering to solve client business and research problems.

For many years prior to co-founding GGA, Richard was actively involved in the environmental and energy fields, founding an environmental consulting and publishing firm in 1980, and undertaking a number of activities to foster the development of the environmental industry. During this period, Richard served as an adviser to the United Nations and government agencies worldwide, was chairman of the Harvard Environmental Health Council at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and was a frequent resource for the media, including appearances on "Face the Nation" and "Nightline". He founded and published several respected environmental newsletters, convened a biannual environmental business conference, and advised the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on environmental policy and technology commercialization. In addition, he worked with the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures and investment banker Tucker Anthony to identify and qualify promising technology companies in the environmental field.During these years, he coauthored "The Almanac of Renewable Energy" and coedited "The Almanac of Science and Technology." which served as resource texts at several major universities including Harvard and Stanford. Richard also undertook a pilot project in rural Bangladesh to generate electricity using biogas from cow dung to power a closed-cycle regenerative heat engine.