Primary Job Title Group CTO Primary Organization 
Falanx Group Ltd
Location Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Richard is Group CTO of Falanx Group. He is best known as a twenty plus year contributor to the Linux kernel and the Open Source community, and as co-author of SmoothWall, protecting major retail brands from Ford to Halfords, Moto Service Stations to schools, colleges and government departments in the UK and across the US. He joined Falanx from
Gartner where he served as Director and CTO within their Global Security Practice. Prior to Gartner, he headed up security strategy in the US for Red Hat the leader in Open Source where he served more than 10 years in two stints, seeing the business grow to $3bn revenue from $200k. He is an in-demand speaker and panellist at security events and has talked for NCSC and UK Government/US Department of Homeland Security in 2017 at major events.
