Summary
Richard Ive is a commercial technology leader and Managing Director with 11 years of formal experience and over 19 years of technical grounding in software development, SaaS and project delivery. He has progressed through product, customer experience and operations roles at Metafour to shape pricing, digital transformation and agile delivery practices that cut costs and accelerated roadmap cadence. Richard blends hands-on technical credibility—maintained through occasional freelance development—with strategic planning skills (Prince2) to align organisational operating models from Point A to Point B. He is known for translating customer needs into product-led processes, instituting QA/UAT and six-week release cycles, and building cross-functional teams that bridge engineering and commercial goals. Based in Chalfont St. Peter, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to sustainable growth and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Hons, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Hons, Computer Science at De Montfort University
English