Mr. Richard Haythornthwaite serves as Board Member at Globant. He serves as Advisory Board Member at Ventura Capital. He also serves as Chairman at Creative England. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor and Chairman at Qiu Technologies. Mr. Haythornthwaite is the global chairman of the NYSE-listed Mastercard Inc and an Advisory Partner to Moelis & Co. He also serves as Chairman at Automobile Association. He is co-founder and chairman of QiO Technologies, an industrial artificial intelligence company, and director of the digital consultancy, Globant. He is also an investor in and chairman of ARC International, the global glass tableware manufacturer. He was previously the CEO of Invensys from 2001-2005 and Blue Circle Industries from 1999-2001 having joined as Director of Asia and Europe in 1997. He spent his early career in BP from 1978-to 1995 before moving to Premier Oil as Commercial Director from 1995 to 1997. He has served on the boards of Network Rail as chairman and Cookson, Lafarge, ICI, and Land Securities as a non-executive director. In the UK not-for-profit sector, he is the current chair of the Creative Industries Federation and former chair of the Southbank Centre and Almeida Theatre. He was educated at MIT (Sloan Fellow) and The Queen's College, Oxford (MA Geology).
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