Henri Richard,

During the past four decades, Mr. Richard has held numerous senior management positions with leading companies in the IT industry. He started his career as the Chief Executive Officer of Informatique Haute Performance, Paris, France, a company he founded. After selling the company, he became the Vice President of Marketing with Metrologie International, Asnieres, France, then Vice President and Managing Director- Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Conner Peripherals, and upon the acquisition by Seagate Technology became Vice President, EMEA Strategic Accounts.

He moved to the United States in the late nineties, as Vice President Sales & Support WW Distribution & E-Business, IBM Technology Group in San Jose, CA, and was a member of the top 300 executives group. He then became Executive Vice President, WW Field; Customer Operations for WebGain, Santa Clara, CA, a privately held software company delivering Enterprise development tools. He later joined Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, where he became Executive Vice President, Chief Sales; Marketing Officer. He then went on to be Senior Vice President, Chief Sales; Marketing Officer for Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, TX. In this last decade, he led WW OEM sales at Sandisk Corporation, Milpitas, CA, until the sale of the company to Western Digital, and then became Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field and Customer Operations at NetApp, Sunnyvale, CA, until his retirement in May 2020. He then joined Gartner as an executive partner responsible for the Chief Sales Officer advisory practice for three years, retired again, only to join Rapidus Design Solutions as President; General Manager in February 2024. In this capacity, he leads the company
Go To Market functions globally.

Mr. Richard’s academic credentials include a Master’s Program in Sciences, Physics from the University of Paris Jussieu.