RICHARD BRANDON

RICHARD BRANDON

TITLE: VP OF STRATEGY

COMPANY: RTBRICK

LOCATION: UK

Richard Brandon is the VP of Strategy at RtBrick, a leading provider of cloud-native routing software, precisely designed for connectivity companies.

Within the software company, Brandon’s role includes overseeing strategy and partnerships, while also heading its marketing efforts – for which he’s been widely recognised as a leading industry influencer.

Q. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EDUCATION AND CAREER PATH.

» I studied Physics at Imperial College in London, specialising in astrophysics. So you should be warned – if you ever bring up the topic of space into a conversation, then it could turn into a long night.

Sadly, as interesting as the universe is, employment opportunities off-planet are limited. So, my first job took me into telecommunications, working on fibre optics for a large telco.

I had a pretty technical role for a few years, before moving into product management and, eventually, more of a marketing role.

I moved into the vendor industry, working at Cisco and Juniper, before heading back to a smaller operator, and, since then, I’ve run marketing for a few start-ups, helping to take one public.

I think every company I’ve worked for has been smaller than the last. I’m not sure what that says about me. Either I don’t like people very much