Research Director at Large
Richard is our research director at large and also founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector. For the first 8 years he covered Global Telecom Equipment as a lead analyst and covered companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Lucent, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Filtronic, Alcatel-Lucent amongst others.

Later, Richard began looking at Handset software and over a period of 5 years became an industry leader in the space. In 2009, he shifted from direct stock coverage to covering technology on a global scale, taking on responsibility of the complete technology ecosystem and spending much more time interacting with clients at Nomura Securities.

His firm Radio Free Mobile is a partner firm of Counterpoint Research and we cooperate together on various tasks. Radio Free Mobile covers the digital mobile ecosystem. It is the only one of its kind that can define and assess all of the ecosystems against each other and tell you how well they are doing and how valuable they are. It is critical for any company making a living in the mobile / digital space to understand how the money is made, by whom and most importantly why.