Meet Richard

Richard Class

Richard Class

Non-Executive Director, Chair of Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Mr Class’ career spans more than thirty years in the financial services sector. During more than a decade at Morgan Stanley, he was Managing Director and Head of EMEA Business Development for Fixed Income, and a portfolio manager for fixed income portfolios with assets totalling €7 billion. Prior to that, he worked for nine years at BG Consulting, a financial services training company and was an executive member of the BG Consulting board for his last three years at the company. He began his career as a fixed income derivatives trader in interest rate and FX products at Rabobank and Morgan Grenfell. He is currently a senior advisor to OptimX, which helps clients to reduce the costs of using financial markets, and is also a senior mentor to junior and senior professionals in the financial services industry. Mr Class has a Mathematics degree from Oxford University and is a resident of the United Kingdom.