Richard Thorp
Chief Technology Officer at Swissport
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Thorp is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer with over 25 years of global leadership driving technology and operations transformations across transportation and airport services. He has delivered large-scale modernization programs—cloud migrations, datacentre consolidations, SD-WAN/voice rollouts and BI-led operational improvements—that produced multi-million dollar savings and measurable resilience at organizations like Swissport, FirstGroup America and Go Ahead Group. Known for building high-performing, diverse teams and trusted executive relationships, he blends commercial acumen with technical delivery, managing complex estates of tens of thousands of users, devices and global sites. He also brings hands-on experience negotiating major vendor agreements and steering M&A technology integration and divestiture activity. An advocate for applied AI, he’s currently implementing AI initiatives to improve safety, efficiency and revenue in aviation operations. Holding US, UK and Irish citizenship, he contributes at the industry level through Evanta/Gartner and other advisory boards.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Mechanical Engineering, BEng, Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University
Github Skills (7)
jetpack-compose9
kotlin8
kotlin-android8
player7
android7
git6
material-design5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
rthorp/go3270
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 days
gitextensions/GitExtensionsDoc
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
The new Git Extensions Manual repository
Contributions:21 commits in 4 months
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