Richard is Roku’s Director UK Strategy, responsible for shaping and delivering Roku’s vision for the UK. Roku is the leading TV OS in the US, Canada and Mexico with 70 million active accounts worldwide.

Prior to Roku, Richard worked with the UK advertiser community and major digital platforms to develop a global blueprint for cross media measurement, Origin. The programme was successfully piloted under his leadership and is now scaling for launch.

Richard founded and was Chief Executive of YouView, the connected TV platform backed by the UK’s major broadcasters, BT and Talk Talk. He helped shape the initial joint venture, led the team through launch and scaled the platform to three million UK homes. YouView’s track record of innovation in content delivery and discovery underpins its continuing importance to the UK TV platform ecology.

Richard started his media career at the BBC working with channel and commissioning teams, becoming Controller of TV Strategy in 2003. He went on to establish a Business Strategy function responsible for the BBC’s partner relationships, commercial and platform strategy.

Outside work he enjoys travelling, is a keen runner and theatre goer and is proud dad to teenage daughters and a son.

Richard is Roku’s Director UK Strategy, responsible for delivering Roku’s vision for the UK. Roku is the leading TV OS in the US, Canada and Mexico with 70 million active accounts.

Prior to Roku, Richard led the development of a global blueprint for cross media measurement, Origin, which is now scaling for launch. Richard was founding Chief Executive of YouView, the connected TV platform backed by the UK’s major broadcasters, BT and Talk Talk. Richard started his media career at the BBC, where he was Controller of TV Strategy and then Business Strategy.

Outside work he enjoys travelling, is a keen runner and theatre goer and is proud dad to teenage daughters and a son.