Background
His father was a labourer and sheep shearer.
chess player investor Businessperson
His father was a labourer and sheep shearer.
University of New South Wales.
In 2012, he took on the role as Chancellor of London South Bank University. Farleigh featured in series 3 and 4 of British Broadcasting Corporation"s He lives in London, United Kingdom. He previously lived in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Born Richard Buckland Smith in Kyabram, Victoria, Australia.
His foster family gave him the surname Farleigh. He is sixth generation Australian.
He was one of eleven siblings. Richard was taken into foster care by a family from Peakhurst, Sydney.
After graduating with honours in the early 1980s, he worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia, then joined Bankers Trust Australia in Sydney when 23 as an investment banker and trader, where he stayed for ten years.
Farleigh left Australia in the nineties. He then spent much time with Norwood investigating research from Oxford University in the United Kingdom that had potential commercial applications. IndexIT was the company formed to fund some of these ventures.
lieutenant was later sold to Beeson Gregory for £20m.
At this time he invested his own capital in British technology companies. In 1999, Farleigh invested £2m in the renovation of the old French Embassy mansion in London"s Portman Square, turning it into the private members club Home House.
In 2005, he published a guide to personal investing entitled Taming the Lion: 100 Secret Strategies for Investing (). He is currently writing a new book named "Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur", and excerpts are being printed Mondays in City Master of Arts as well as on his website.
The Rich 200 list estimated his personal wealth at around A$160,000,000.
He is ranked as the 876th on the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 with an estimated Netto worth of £66 million. Several companies Farleigh invested in include: ClearSpeed, Evolution Group, IP2IPO, Proximagen, Home House and Wolfson Microelectronics. In 2010, Farleigh "launched advisory firm H2O Markets".
Farleigh was selected in 2006 to appear as an investor on the British version of the business-related television programme for the show"s third series.
Farleigh said he would be seeking further investments through the show, saying he was looking to "hopefully uncover the next big thing". lieutenant was announced on 21 May 2007, that Richard Farleigh had been dropped from the series.
Farleigh played for Bermuda in the 31st Olympiad in Moscow 1994 and for Monaco in the 34th Olympiad in Istanbul 2000.
He is currently a member of the Review Weekly Rich 200 list, a list of the 200 wealthiest Australian individuals.