Richard is a chartered mechanical engineer with 30 years’ experience in subsea engineering, mainly focused on delivering subsea production systems for the Oil and Gas Industry. He is currently the Technical Sales Manager for Siemens Energy based in Houston Texas. Originally from the UK, he moved to Houston in 1997 for a 6 month assignment and never went home.

Richard holds a BSC from the University of Durham and an MSC from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a chartered mechanical engineer, is Chairman of the API 17Z committee on subsea medium voltage power systems, and holds four patents.