After 10 years in the insurance industry in the 1990s, risk-managing everything from tigers in TV commercials to million pound online lotteries Rick founded Chimaera Games in 2002, a mobile casino and games start up (right product, five years too early).  

Rick then joined the founding team at mobile tech start-up Mfuse, who quickly became the leading provider of mobile software to the UK’s betting operators. In 2010, Rick jumped the fence to work on a new role within Sportingbet Plc as their Head of Mobile, quickly taking the vertical to 20% of their business before going back to what he likes best – fast-moving startups, founding Bonza Gaming, disrupting the online gambling industry with a Facebook integrated real money slots application.  

The business was acquired in early 2015 leaving Rick to move away from the gambling industry to co-found Geektastic, an HRtech start-up providing a technical assessment platform to businesses scaling their development teams.   

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