Richard is a chartered accountant with over 20 years experience in the European financial sector. He has held various general management, business development and operational roles within (JP Morgan) Fleming and ABN AMRO Asset Management.

He is a graduate from Trinity College Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales [ICAEW].

After completing a DPhil, Richard trained and worked as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse (Coopers) before leaving in 1994 to join (JP Morgan) Fleming, where he held a number of directorships before becoming European Head of Operations and Customer Services for Fleming Asset Management between 1998 and 2000.

In June 2000, he joined ABN AMRO as Managing Director for ABN AMRO Investment Funds SA Luxembourg. He was made Head of European Funds, ABN AMRO Asset Management in March 2004 and was Chairman of the Group’s Luxembourg-based funds.

Richard is a native English speaker and fluent in French and German with a solid working knowledge of other European languages. Over the past 10, years he has acted as a Director for various Luxembourg domiciled funds, including alternative investment vehicles, multi-manager products, private equity and structured funds. In addition to this, he is actively involved in a number of industry bodies, including membership of the Investment Funds Committee of Luxembourg Institute of Directors, and the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies.