Richard joined The Warehouse Group in March 2019 as General Manager, People Experience, Remuneration and Employee Relations. In August 2020, he was promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer. Richard is responsible for attracting and retaining world-class retail talent by making The Warehouse Group the best place to work in New Zealand. 

Previously, he held several senior human resources and corporate legal roles at a number of New Zealand’s leading organisations. Richard began his career as a litigation lawyer at Chapman Tripp before moving to Fletcher Challenge as corporate legal counsel where he was involved in significant mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring activity for the Forestry division. 

Subsequent to Fletcher Challenge Richard held senior HR roles at Telecom (now Spark) as General Manager, HR Service Delivery and Assistant General Counsel Employee Relations and then Television New Zealand as General Manager, People and Talent. He holds an LLB (Hons) and MPhil (Hons) from the University of Auckland