Richard is founder and Chairman of Zen Internet, the UK’s largest B Corp certified telecommunications and network connectivity provider. Zen provides a full range of broadband, data, voice, hosting and infrastructure services to homes and businesses across the country including through a thriving network of channel partners. The company also delivers complex network and cloud solutions for a wide range of large businesses and corporate customers through its strategic partnerships with AWS and Cisco.  

A multi-time Which? Recommended Broadband Provider, Richard started Zen in 1995 with only a handful of dial-up modems. The rise of the internet since then has been remarkable and Richard has been at the forefront of an industry that has fundamentally changed the shape of how we communicate and do business.

Richard is fully focussed on ensuring Zen’s ethos underpins every aspect of the service the company provides by making the right decisions for long-term success and sustainability and challenging the bad practices the industry has become renowned for.

Richard has been instrumental in creating a people-first culture at Zen ensuring customers get an award-winning service that has many times been voted the UK’s best. His fundamental long-term objectives for the company are Happy staff, Happy customers, Happy suppliers. Zen is Great Place to Work certified.