Richard served as a director of Mercury Asset Management,Cazenove Capital and Singer and Friedlander before embracing impact investing in 2006 and amongst other things became a trustee of ASTIA .
Between 2005 and 2007, he was a nonexecutive director of Kanbay, which merged with Capgemini Financial Services.
In 2008, he was appointed to the investment and finance committee of one of the UK’s most significant single-family offices. He remains in this role from 2014 until earlier this year.  Richard sat on the London School of Economics Investment committee with whom he retains strong ties.
Currently, he is Senior Advisor to the Board of Floreat, having previously been Vice Chairman. Further, he is a trustee for two Charitable foundations and an advisor for Tellsons Investors