Richard is the founder and Commercial Director of Transmit, which operates the Transmit Startups and Smarta brands.
He founded his first business, a music promotion company called Funky Slug Promotions, in 1990 and has been running companies ever since. He got into business finance after spending a number of years mentoring other founders and helping with their growth strategies. This naturally progressed into business finance when Transmit Startups became a delivery partner for the British Business bank's Start Up Loans programme.
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