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"Richard was hugely entertaining, an excellent raconteur with useful business insights."
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Manufacturing & Eng., The Political Landscape, Emerging Markets (BRIC), Change Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Overcoming Adversity, Risk, Transformational Leadership, Corporate Turnaround
SPEECH TITLES
Building a strong community
Risk-taking
Maintaining innovation
Competing against the downturn
BIOGRAPHY
As International & Commercial Director of Dyson, Sir Richard is responsible for developing the company's manufacturing and sales operations in Europe, the US and the Far East.
Richard originally served as a Conservative MP and Michael Heseltine's Deputy at the DTI. He is credited by many for reinvigorating export strategy and in particular for regenerating Northern Ireland's infrastructure and economic base. He took huge risks when he insisted that Belfast's bomb-damaged city centre be reconstructed in glass and steel, to show confidence in the future.
Since leaving politics Richard has worked as Chairman, Director or advisor to over twenty companies, from world giants like GEC to start-ups like Quantum Imaging. Aside from his role at Dyson, he chairs Avon Rubber and Imperial College's DeltaDot (which introduced the world's most advanced DNA sequencer), and serves as Vice Chairman of NEC Europe.
Heading-up Dyson's move into China, Richard has developed unrivalled contacts at the highest reaches of Government and at local Party Secretary level. He knows the advantages and pitfalls of doing business in China and is perfectly placed to help companies enter the market at the right level, in the right place and with the right partners.
At a time when businesses are experiencing the first major downturn for two decades, Richard's experience of the ups and downs of commercial life provide a sharp insight into what to do and what not to do in order to survive and thrive. He explains how to drive change, and how to make targets work; with trademark gusto and a wonderful sense of humour, he also provides a clear insight into turnarounds, risk-taking and innovation in both public and private sectors, at home and abroad.
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