Dr Richard Bradley is Research Director, working across Platforum’s research programme, on bespoke research and consultancy projects. He has been researching investment distribution for the last decade, initially at Platforum. Since then, Richard has worked at Fundamental Media, conducting research on global retail and institutional investment distribution, and at Boring Money, where he was responsible for analysing the UK D2C market. Richard re-joined Platforum in 2018. He holds a BEng and a PhD in engineering from the University of Southampton, with a focus on control systems and artificial intelligence.