Richard is Founder & CEO at LoveLive who specialise in producing, licensing, syndicating and monetizing cutting edge Live Music content across all platforms, filmed weekly from gigs, sessions and festivals around the world.  Richard has worked at the forefront of enabling technology and its convergence with the most effective distribution and commercialization of media content for the past decade.  Prior to establishing LoveLive, Richard served as Group Commercial Director at Premium TV [where he was also a share holder and member of the Board of Directors]; having been instrumental in the sale of that business, Richard assumed the role of Managing Director, Entertainment at Perform Group, one of the largest online premium content subscription businesses in Europe and resulting entity from the merger between Premium TV post sale and Inform. Prior to that, Richard enjoyed success as Director, Front at Framestore CFC; EVP Global Sales and Strategy at image.net [subsequently sold to Getty Images] and Founder CEO of In2Film, a magazine publishing company which achieved the highest monthly circulation of any entertainment magazine in the UK.