Richard has been a successful divisional Finance Director for many years and joined 2OC in 2006. In June 2009 he was appointed a director of 2OC.

Prior to joining 2OC he worked for a number of years for both Dalgety and Unigate where he gained significant management experience at company and divisional board level. He was able to put this experience to good use when he was part of a management buy-out team that acquired the agricultural interests of Dalgety PLC for £50m in 1998, creating Dalgety Group. In this capacity he assumed responsibility for treasury, tax, property, company secretariat, insurance and IT.