Richard is an entrepreneur and investor. He was a founder shareholder and director of boohoo.com twelve years ago which on its first day had one sale for £37 and has subsequently grown to a net turnover of £1.2bn and valued at circa £3.5 billion. He subsequently founded Zeus Capital Limited an Investment Bank which has advised on deals with a value of over £5.3 billion since 2013 and has historically completed 20 per cent of all the IPOs on AIM raising circa £1 billion per annum.
Richard is also a founding partner of Palatine Private Equity LLP which invests between £10m-30m in high growth companies and whose latest fund is circa £350m. In 2019 he was recognized by his peers as the leading Dealmaker over the last 25 years at an awards ceremony in Manchester. He is a director of Maggie’s cancer charity and Bookmark, a children’s reading charity.
Woven throughout the presentation will be the determination and perseverance of him and his colleagues to achieve the greatest gains.
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