As a Managing Partner for Everest Group, Richard oversees the Advanced SciTech practice, which focuses on understanding and tackling long-term Science and Technology discoveries. Richard leads a team of global trends and technology professionals who are driven to understand how future transformative developments will impact education, companies, cities and governments, and the people they serve. His approach is grounded in research in the field, taking key developing indicators to assess more credibly what the future will bring us and how to act on that information. Richard’s project work has helped to influence and drive growth in a wide variety of spaces, giving him a truly rounded perspective on the forces at play that will shape the future. Taking an innovative approach to experiential research, his team develops global views on topics such as geopolitical chaos, new business model disruptions, technology developments, and more. In his 29-year career Richard has worked with more than 250 of the world’s leading CEOs and world leaders at entities such as GE, Intel, FedEx, VW, Panasonic, ExxonMobil, Government of Mexico, Government of the United Kingdom, United States Office of Science & Technology, and Facebook. A globally recognized thought leader and speaker, Richard has worked in more than seventy countries, consulting and researching with people from all walks of life. Authoring hundreds of thought pieces and having regular media appearances, Richard can provide a perspective few can bring.