Richard Barker is Partner at Counteract – a specialist VC fund focused on investment into early-stage businesses in carbon removals.
Richard brings over 30 years international experience in sustainable businesses, investment banking and strategic consulting. Previous roles include: CEO of Biogen, the UK’s leading food waste AD builder and operator, CEO of RecovCo, a specialist aluminium recycler that acquired and operated Alcan’s French aluminium recycling business and Head of Strategy for ANZ Investment Bank in Australia.
Richard also advises private equity investors in sustainable investment, and is currently a non-executive director at Verdalia, a Goldman Sach’s backed European biomethane platform.
Richard has an MEng in Engineering Economics and Management from Oxford University and was a lecturer in Economics at University College Cork in Ireland.