Richard Knight

Advisory Board

Richard Knight has over 30 years experience working within the IT and Engineering sectors.  Richard began his career in the defence industry, working on major projects across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  Richard then moved into the IT space, selling and managing a number of global transformation programmes, largely powered by SAP.  Since 2010, Richard has been working at the cutting edge of cloud and security solutions.

Richard was part of the Virtustream team that built a cloud based unicorn that was, ultimately, sold to EMC for $1.3Bn in 2015 and subsequently onto Dell Technologies in 2016.

Richard is a serial angel investor with holdings in more than 30 technology start-ups both in the UK, Middle East and Africa.