Richard’s already established IT & System skills were finely honed during extensive working with Japanese automotive companies within the U.K. in the 80’s & 90’s. He became fascinated with the Asian methods of organisation and developed an advanced level of IT systems and integration knowledge working with the automotive supply chain across Europe. This was followed by stints in the mobile telecoms industries – where he really enjoyed developing new systems, which at the time were ‘MMS’ services!

During the late 90’s Richard became very involved in emerging on-line trends and developed his first ‘hobby’ web site in 1997 quickly followed up with first commercial web sites in 1998 and then rapidly absorbing new languages and methodologies to become involved in the development of large-scale on-line ordering platforms and management systems for a multitude of industries for many years.

Richard joined with Relish in 2014 to initially design and develop a new approach to recipe and menu management. This has now grown into the ‘holistic’ all-encompassing Relish-Ops system. At every stage devising, developing and maintaining the multiple modules, bespoke to the operational requirements of Relish operations, our clients, suppliers and partners. From the early days of a few simple recipes and menus, the systems are now maintained and continually developed with the help of his trusty team of experts in portal development and data management. The systems regularly handle over 1.3M interactions with users per month. Richard quotes: "The role is ever changing, we are always learning which is highly rewarding – for geeks like me!''