Richard has over 35 years experience as a researcher and consultant in business, consumer and customer research. Prior to forming The Beveridge Research Partnership, Richard was a partner and director of the successful Melbourne research agency, Beveridge & Cummings Pty Ltd.  He has worked with a range of companies during his career such as GlaxoSmithKline, Smith & Nephew, ANZ, AXA, Medibank, Australian Unity and Myer.

Richard has expertise as a buyer of research services and internal consultant in the manufacturing industry; specialist researcher and consultant in new product and service development; research buyer and consultant within the advertising and communications industry; and as a supplier of qualitative and quantitative research.

Richard is director of  Research Advisory, a market research consultancy affiliated with Growth Solutions Group.

He has been a Fellow of the Market Research Society of Australia.