Richard is a Tax Partner and Vice Chair with KPMG in its Financial Services Practice. Richard worked with KPMG’s Managing Partner to set up the Black Heritage (BH) Working Group which brings together senior stakeholders who can deliver a strategy to build on inclusion of BH colleagues. Richard has played a critical role as part of the BHWG to devise KPMG’s proactive Black Lives Action Plan which not only aims to double black people in leadership but also to enhance our policies to support the career progression of black colleagues in KPMG.
Richard also Chairs the Race Diversity Board for Business in the Community, The Prince’s Trust and has championed many initiatives including working with a number of businesses to lobby for Ethnic Pay Gap Reporting by way of an open letter to the Prime Minister. Richard is also on the City of London Taskforce aimed at redressing the imbalance for socio-economically disadvantaged people in the financial services sector and the professions.