Bio

Richard has spent his career helping entrepreneurs build great businesses. He has advised and inspired hundreds of businesses to improve performance and achieve goals. He has always recognised that thinking and acting “innovatively” in close partnership with the client is the key to entrepreneurial growth. His passion is to really understand the “difference that makes the difference” in successful entrepreneurs and codifying this difference and sharing this with others. Prior to starting Comentorise, Richard was Head of Outsourcing at RSM Tenon and a Director of Corporate Finance. He had previously spent many years working as a Corporate Finance Partner acting mainly as a lead advisor but also providing due diligence services, much of which was on behalf of VCs or VC backed businesses. He also has been a Client Services Director, managing the financial affairs of a large and diverse portfolio of entrepreneurial and international businesses. Richard has held many NED positions including listed companies (where he has been Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee); a Regional Development Agency and an international accounting association (which gave him the opportunity to build extensive international contacts). He graduated in Geography, qualified first time as a Chartered Accountant (ACA), spent time in the Big 4 and became an FCA in 1998. His is particularly interested in coaching and mentoring and is executive coach trained, a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is trained in timeline therapy and hypnotherapy.