Meet Richard

Richard Class

Richard Class

Non-Executive Director, Chair of Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Richard Class joined the Board with effect from the 1st November 2023.

Richard's career spans more than thirty years in the financial services sector. Over more than a decade at Morgan Stanley, he was Managing Director and Head of EMEA Business Development for Fixed Income, and also a portfolio manager for their fixed income portfolios with assets totalling €7bn. Prior to that, he was a Board Director and trainer at BG Consulting, a financial products training and development company. He began his career as a fixed income derivatives trader in interest rates 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. Richard has a Mathematics degree from Oxford University.