Richard is a businessman with extensive experience in traditional business and MLM. He started his first MLM business in 1989. Although this business was ultimately a failure, the lessons he learned have been invaluable.

In 2000, Richard founded Netready, a software company specialising in MLM, Direct Selling and Party Plan software. (www.netready.co.za). This company is highly successful and has helped some of the biggest companies in the world achieve success in MLM. He is currently the CEO of Netready.

In 2002 he launched AcornKids (www.acornkids.com), a highly successful party plan company. The company was sold in 2007 and is still an extremely successful business.

Today, Richard hosts the MLM for CEO's podcasts and blog site. The aim is to help companies enter the MLM space and succeed.