Richard leads africapractice Group operations across our offices in Africa and London. In addition Richard is our Senior Advisor to business and government leaders particularly in the infrastructure, energy, oil and gas sectors. Richard advises a portfolio of companies who have collectively invested billions of dollars in Africa.
Prior to africapractice, Richard spent 5 years as the Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Microsoft Africa, where he was responsible for managing Microsoft’s strategic engagements with development partners and inter-governmental organizations across 47 countries in sub Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. He was instrumental in establishing Microsoft’s partnerships with the African Union, African Development Bank, UNECA, ECOWAS, World Bank and The East African Community among others. He is also credited with negotiating significant public-private-partnership contracts in the education and health sectors.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Richard spent 4 years as the East African Regional Manager for SAP, the World’s Largest Business Software Company. Richard studied economics and political science at the University of Toronto Canada, with a particular focus on the economics of development. He is passionate about focusing on the role of productivity in accelerating Africa’s growth and competitiveness and is deeply committed to building partnership and proactively managing stakeholder relations as a critical ingredient to achieve sustainable and high impact results.