Richard holds an MBA from INSEAD and co-founded Castlegreen Partners in 2005. Previous experience included nine years at Deutsche Bank where he was Managing Director and co-head of Nordic Investment Banking. Prior to Deutsche Bank Richard had worked at Svenska Handelsbanken, Merrill Lynch and Cazenove. Richard is an active investor in early-stage companies.  Successful investments include: DeepMind (sold to Google); Frontier Developments (listed on AIM); Ownit (Sweden – sold to Telenor); Teraco (South Africa – sold to Permira); VWater (sold to PepsiCo).