Career
His entrepreneurship is associated with the United Kingdom city of his birth Sheffield. In June 2012, he led the company to an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. He was born in Sheffield, England in 1970, where his father worked in the steel industry.
In the mid 1990s, Richards formed an Systems, Applications and Products consulting company, which he sold in the late 1998 and moved to Silicon Valley.
Raising $25m from venture capital, he then founded business software company Insevo before creating Librados, which was acquired by Netmanage in 2004. WANdisco was incorporated in 2005 after a chance meeting between Richards and WANdisco chief scientist, Doctor Yeturu Aahlad.
Richards recognized the potential of Aahlad"s invention, and the two decided to create a company without the use of venture capital or angel investors.