Richard has spent almost 20 years in drug discovery, first as a computational chemist, and then in business development. After his degree and PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford, he spent several years working in academia, biotech and government labs in California as a comp chemist. In 2008 he was hired as the Head of Computational Chemistry at Evotec, and after leading a team and several drug discovery projects, became SVP Business Development, managing a team to build successful alliances between Evotec and biotech and Pharma.
