Richard Hollis
Business Development Manager at Cochrane (formerly known as The Cochrane Collaboration)
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hollis is a seasoned business development leader with 14+ years of experience building and commercialising information products for healthcare, academic and corporate markets. Currently Business Development Manager at Cochrane Innovations, he drives product strategy and revenue for tools that support evidence-informed healthcare, channeling profits back into the charity’s mission. His career spans senior roles at ProQuest, The IET and Cambridge University Press, combining sales leadership, M&A scouting and partnership development across international markets. With an MBA and a Master’s in Library & Information Science, he uniquely blends commercial acumen with deep domain knowledge of information products and publishing. He also contributes to developer-focused tooling—improving Swagger documentation generation for Rails APIs—showing hands-on technical curiosity beyond his executive remit. Based in St Albans, he pairs strategic vision with practical operational experience in scaling subscription and platform businesses.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business Studies, MBA, Business Studies at Open University Business SchoolFarnborough Grammar SchoolMaster's Degree, Library and Information Science, Master's Degree, Library and Information Science at The University of SheffieldBA, History, BA, History at University of Bristol
Github Skills (7)
json10
ruby-rails10
swagger10
rails10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richhollis/swagger-docs
Oct 2013 - Jan 2017
Generates swagger-ui json files for Rails APIs with a simple DSL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 132 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the configuration and generation of Swagger documentation for a Rails API. Their work involved modifying code related to generating JSON files for the Swagger UI, including adding base paths and refining the path generation process. They also made minor improvements to the codebase, removed unused dependencies, and updated the version information. These changes suggest a focus on improving the API documentation generation process.
apirailsdsljson-filesswagger-ui
Wordsmith/wordsmith-plugin
Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years
on-demandjqueryjavascriptdemanddefinitions
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