Richard is currently working for AMEC as Operations Director - West Africa & Services. He has responsibility for a diverse portfolio of AMEC's engineering and project management activities within the Europe & West Africa region, including a major brownfield project in Nigeria, LNG engineering support in South Wales and a gas storage project in UK. He is based in Great Yarmouth and is also supporting AMEC's SNS operations, including the OneGas-AJS project.

He initially trained as a Marine Engineer, but then went on to study Mechanical Engineering at Southampton University. After graduating, he worked for a number of companies in the oil & gas sector, including packaged equipment suppliers, process systems manufacturers, and operations & maintenance service companies. During this time he had extensive international experience, working in Europe, West Africa and the Middle East.

He initially joined AMEC in 1999 as West Africa Business Development Manager, and shortly afterwards took the opportunity to spend 6 months on temporary assignment with the Commercial Section of the British Embassy in Angola. He became Operations Director for West Africa in 2002, being responsible for a number of significant projects including Shell Bonga, a massive FPSO in Nigeria.

Richard has lived near Norwich since 1997, and despite a busy schedule still manages to find time to race his own kit car in a national motor racing series, try to keep fit, ski occasionally and relax with friends and family.