Richard worked for UK Trade & Investment helping British companies develop their business in Japan and Japanese companies expand their activities in the UK. His work focused on the Electronics, Life Sciences and Energy sectors and he helped companies such as Takeda, Sharp and Panasonic gain access to advanced technologies for use in production processes or final products.

Prior to that, he worked for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in their international purchasing division, buying equipment for power plants. He first came to Japan in 1992 and has lived in Nagaski, Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo. He has diplomas in Business and International Trade, a degree in Applied Science and an MSC in environmental Technology from Imperial College.

At Intralink, Richard has worked in the mobile comms sector, licensing a service delivery platform and associated applications to Japanese carriers through system integrators and resellers. He has also worked with a leading German software security company, to develop and implement their Japan market entry strategy, by coordinating all of the necessary set up arrangements and launch of its Japanese consumer software. Finally he has worked in the consumer electronics sector developing opportunities for a unique optical touch solution for a broad range of devices.

Richard is based in Intralink’s Tokyo office.

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