Richard Pinder is co-Founder and SVP responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Richard has 20 years' experience in the knowledge and information management industry and has worked for a range of organizations, including Eastman Kodak, Microbank (now Sungard), and SilverStream Software (since bought by Novell).

Richard has a deep knowledge of the technologies that surrounds Smartlogic's solution: Content Management Solutions, such as SharePoint and enterprise search engines such as Google and FAST. He also has experience in information and knowledge management consultancy, having run TFPL, a leading UK Information Management consultancy practice.

Specializing on subjects such as 'findability', and applying taxonomies and ontologies into real life business applications, Richard helps clients build business cases and strategic road-maps to sell the business value inside the organization. Richard is very well placed to help teams at the tipping point of business change.