Richard is the Deputy CEO and Director of Innovation Adoption at Health Innovation Wessex. Richard’s extensive experience at the forefront of healthcare innovation include establishing a deployment framework within a digital healthtech scale-up, guiding portfolio companies within a medtech investment business, national innovation adoption programmes at NHS England and business and strategic partnership development at a government-owned research organisation.

Richard is keen to enable patients and NHS staff to benefit through innovation adoption, partnering with academia and industry to improve the lived experience within the health and care environment.