Richard H Harris Mbe Email & Phone Number

Bothell, Washington, Us

I'm working with Corum Group, selling quality tech companies at the world's leading technology M&A firm, with responsibility for the Europe & Africa team. This builds on my experience prior to Corum of two IPOs, one merger, two outright sales, two acquisitions and subsequently multiple transactions with Corum. I'm delighted to continue to be able to help fellow founders exit successfully.Corum Group, is one of the largest and most established tech-centric M&A advisory firms in the world. Corum is sell-side only, with over 500 transactions creating over $20bn in wealth over the last 38+ years.My responsibilities at Corum include managing the European & African team, continuing the education services via Merge Briefings, Selling Up Selling Out conferences, with specialisation in sourcing, developing and closing sell-side M&A transactions involving technology companies. Transaction values are typically $10M to $100M, and are between UK & EU sellers and buyer / investors from multiple countries.

Bothell, Washington, Us

Bothell, Washington, Us

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

I built a 30-member world-class team and led the development of a multi-award-winning instant, secure purchasing solution (Onescan), building corporate value to £24m.As a leader in driving digital transformation, our customers include Panasonic, Barclaycard, P&G, Sabre, Visa, and O2.Driving successful business operations, I set the strategic vision to ensure robust operating processes. I lead the development of cutting-edge features, managing identity, security, and compliance (PCI Level 1, PSD2, GDPR) for multiple payment methods and partners (including PayPal and ApplePay). Investors include Gate Ventures, SixThirty, Olswang LLP, Jesus College Cambridge, and Telefonica through its Wayra Business Accelerator Academy, 2013 Cohort. • Led development of robust cloud-based SaaS platform with 100% up-time since going live in 2014. • Found, acquired, repackaged and sold FCA regulated money remittance business for 10x return (Mint Payment Services Ltd formerly Ensygnia Payment Services Ltd); authored and implemented policies required for FCA approval of purchase, operation, and sale.• Earned multiple industry awards, including being voted one of top three innovations likely to have greatest impact on global mobile industry.

Raspberry is Europe's fastest growing investment syndicate, bringing together serial-entrepreneurs, corporate executives and angels to invest in high impact European AI and Climate Tech technology companies.We are transforming the fundraising & investing experience for the founders and private investors in these core verticals. Each month, we review hundreds of investment opportunities and invite Raspberry Syndicate members to join us in investing in 1-2 cherry-picked startups alongside top-performing VC funds.Our vision is to be the most founder- and private-investor friendly ClimateTech/AI syndicate in Europe with at least €100m in virtual dry powder deployed annually.

San Francisco, California, Us

Englefield Green, England, Gb

I provide strategic recommendations for staff motivation / training / enablement, departmental restructuring, faculty / collegiate politics and positioning, BAME engagement, teaching practices, student engagement, and fundraising.BoardsInternational Advisory Board, School of Business and Management (AACSB Accredited)Technology & Information Management Advisory Board

Delivering successful business transformation through management consulting, board directorships, mentoring, advising, R&D and IP generation.

London, London, Gb

Mentor to Scichart CEO: Dr. Andrew Burnett-Thompson. I provided strategic advice which has helped protect IP, increase YoY revenue growth (>5x), profitability (700%) and increase average deal size.Scicharts provides the world's best performing charts. They handle truly astonishingly large data sets with 10bn+ points rendering on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and mobile in milliseconds. Applications of their incredible technology includes better and faster diagnosis through medical imaging, better trading decisions for financial markets and higher performance racing cars.

London, England, Gb

Helped secure and participated in seed investment round of just under £1m.SAVortex is an award winning cleantech company and produces the world's most energy efficient hand-dryer (Guinness World Record Holder).

Leeds, England, Gb

I was recruited to secure investment, strengthen the main Board, and refresh the company’s vision and strategy. I championed organisational change, restructuring product offerings to delivery entry to a cloud-based SaaS from a legacy on-premise system.• Secured US market re-entry for $2m pipeline in six months; selected new UK distributor for growth and organisational restructuring leading to increased profitability. • Secured interest for $10m investment round; acquired Authenticall from Mobix.• Led process improvements, taking company from £900k loss to £150k profit and growing revenues from £1.6m to £1.9m in under one year.

Leeds, England, Gb

Other members of the Advisory Board included the former CEO of Phoenix Technologies and COO of RSA, Al Sisto; as well as Taher Elgamal the world renown cryptographer, who was the initial driving force behind SSL.

Leeds, England, Gb

Led acquisition of Mobix by Swivel Secure. At Mobix, I held full P&L responsibility, appointed as the CEO by their lead investor to deliver business transformation. I created a new commercial strategy, delivered product innovation, and drove through cost rationalisation.• Streamlined operations, achieving 30% cost reduction and 82% increase in GP, and pivoting product to create, patent, and launch world’s first two-way authenticated calling platform (Authenticall).• Named Entrepreneur of the Year in Security Industry Innovation Awards in 2010 for Authenticall.

I helped secure term sheets for two £1.5m investments and a pilot with the customer for a €10m deal for Intelligent video surveillance / analysis and real-time critical security and threat detection.

I created indirect sales channels across the EMEA, succeeding in sourcing / negotiating distribution agreements with Cap Gemini, IBM Global Services, Accenture, and others, resulting in a £8m sales pipeline.

I managed existing channel distribution and the SI network, consistently hitting $1m+ per annum sales targets.

Us

Part of a small team in international (initially 8), had responsibility for Acumen EIS and the European launch of the Strategist Telco Billing Analysis module for Kenan's Arbor BP. By the end of 1996 the international team had been grown to over 100 people with $25m+ in revenue.

Telefonica Global Management Program, Business Administration And Management, General

Bsc, Theoretical Physics