Richard started his career as an R&D engineer in the electronics industry in Taiwan and from there moved into fuel cell research in Switzerland.
In 2000 he founded and ran the software company Kinematik, producing software for R&D management in high-tech manufacturing and pioneering the worlds first integrated program and portfolio management and knowledge management system.
Richard graduated from the University of Limerick with an honors degree in Industrial Chemistry and holds a Masters of Science in Engineering in Sustainable Energy from University College Cork, Ireland and an M.Sc. in Environmental Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
