Richard runs the Private Markets portfolio at Railpen. The Private Markets team has the remit and responsibility to invest across high-risk illiquid strategies through a variety of investment structures (funds, co-investments, secondaries, directs), focussed primarily on equity strategies. Having joined Railpen in 2007, Richard has evolved and implemented Railpen’s current approach to private market strategies promoting the principles of flexibility, control and cost. Earlier in his tenure at Railpen, Richard was responsible for the commodities pooled fund. Richard started his career in 2003 as a strategy consultant serving the Private Markets industry. He is a guest lecturer on the Private Equity executive education programme at University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
