Richard has been Managing Director of Chiltern Railways since September 2020 and is a member of Arriva’s rail leadership team and is a non-Executive Director of the Rail Safety and Standards Board. He is a Trustee of the Railway Children charity.

Prior to joining Chiltern, Richard held several Director roles at train operator Northern including Commercial Director, People and Strategy Director, and Regional Director, during more than a decade with the second biggest train operator in the UK. Richard first worked in rail with GNER on the East Coast Main Line.

Richard was a member of the CBI Yorkshire & Humber Regional Council from 2018 to 2020, and raised over £17,000 for the Railway Benefit Fund (RBF) by cycling from London to Paris in 2016 and Paris to Geneva in 2018. He is married with two grown-up children.