理查德毕业于达勒姆大学的地理学，然后是特许验船师，并在波兰和英国开发自己的物业业务。他于2012年加入冰岛，在成为冰岛店经理然后搬到总部，在伦敦作为伦敦的架子堆垛机和收银员，在2015年成为董事，在2015年成为董事，并在2018年举办董事。
Richard is a committed environmentalist who has led all Iceland’s recent sustainability initiatives including its pledge to eliminate plastic packaging from the Iceland own label range by 2023 and to remove palm oil as an ingredient from its own label food by the end of 2018. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of the DEFRA Council for Sustainable Business, and a regular panellist on BBC One’s Question Time. Outside family and business, his greatest passions are trail running, skiing, surfing and climbing.