Richard has been an in-house lawyer within payments and fintech for over 10 years, has held executive leader positions as well as being a board member. He has substantial experience at running and building successful teams in high growth, dynamic and demanding environments as well as making significant contributions to the overall business in legal, risk, regulatory and governance.

Richard trained and qualified at Pinsent Masons, before moving in-house for stints at Worldpay and Lloyds Banking Group. He was formerly Chief Legal & Risk Officer at payments firm Modulr where he built the legal team from inception and subsequently led the risk, compliance and governance teams as member of the executive team and board member for its European business. Richard is now International Head of Compliance and Assistant General Counsel at Intuit, the Nasdaq listed fintech behind brands such as Quickbooks, Mailchimp and Credit Karma, helping to achieve its significant international growth plans.