Richard is co-founding managing partner at Fabric Ventures. He is Chairman of Firestartr. He ran Automic (now CA) in 2014. He was founder, chairman & CEO of Tideway, bought by BMC Software in 2009. From 2001 to 2002 he was EIR for Accel; was a co-founder and SVP of Orchestream which IPO'd in 2000 with a peak market capitalization of £1.0 billion and a strategy consultant at Monitor. Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2009, he holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and dual Australian/UK citizenship. He rowed competitively in his youth. Now, he is into evolutionary history, The Roosters and wishes he slept and stretched more. He was married to the most incredible Norwegian yoga instructor and model called Hella Lund and had two mind-boggling and bewitching daughters with her.