Biography
Richard's attention has consistently been focused on the crossroads of entertainment and technology. He has produced video games, films, television, cross and new media properties and commercials. He is also the head of User Experience at the BBC.
Richard was the co-founder and CEO of {tag} media (acquired by Razorfish in August 1998); Richard then served as the Managing Director of the Los Angeles office which he built into a division employing 300 professionals, both organically and through the acquisition of FUEL in mid 1999. Richard helped establish Razorfish's new platforms practices (including wireless and ITV) and served on the corporate management team as VP of Strategic Investments until his 2001 departure.
On departing, he, with his wife, Tavin Marin Titus, founded Plinyminor. They have developed and produced a variety of feature film and television projects as well as executive producing the feature film On_line, a romantic drama/comedy about six characters whose relationships, work and sex lives are connected through and changed by the Internet. The Film premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and was released theatrically in the US in July of 2003.
Richard currently also serves as President and co-founder of leading Los Angeles based interactive agency, Schematic; one of the largest and fastest growing interactive agencies in the US whose clients include ABC News, Cablevision, Comcast, Microsoft, Neilson, Turner and Sony. Schematic's work has been created and deployed on a wide range of devices and platforms including the game consoles, PC's, set-top boxes, wireless devices and of course the Internet. The company is the market leader for User Interface design for the screen and a leading proponent of open source software development.
Richard began his career as a sound engineer for The Beach Boys, beta-testing Digidesign's Pro Tools software on Summer In Paradise, the first all-digital "tapeless" production of a major record album. His music industry ventures include the reorganization and management of start-up sister record labels City of Tribes and ZoëMagik Records-home of Young American Primitive-and concluded with a stint as an executive at Moonshine Music. His early career also included Brad Krevoy and Steve Stabler's MPCA, where he produced early multimedia projects like Blue Heat, an interactive game, and several feature films, including Corporate Ladder starring Talisa Soto and Ben Cross. In 1997 Richard created and produced the pioneering parallel media web-show, Thevisitor.com, with Dean Devlin, producer of Independence Day, in conjunction with the Fox Network television series The Visitor.
Richard was a founder of and a committee chair of the Digital Coast Roundtable and serves on the board of the Producer's Guild of America New Media Council and several advisory boards including the AFI ETV Workshop and the Interactive Television Alliance. Richard is a regular panelist and keynote speaker at Industry events such as E3, CES, NATPE, NAB and Digital Hollywood as well as educational institutions including Argyros (Chapman), Graziadio (Pepperdine) and Anderson (UCLA) business schools. For the last three years, the Digital Coast Reporter Magazine has named Richard one of the 50 most influential people in the Digital Coast.
