Richard Smith

Partner & Chief Financial Officer at Inflexion

As a Partner and Chief Financial Officer, Richard is responsible for the finance function and overseeing the firm’s financial affairs. His remit includes the funds and investment manager operations, portfolio reporting, portfolio management, compliance, financial planning, fund structuring, treasury, and tax.

Richard has significant private equity experience, and before joining Inflexion in 2017, was Finance Director at European Capital, where he built up the finance team from inception and was involved in the primary LSE listing and multiple fundraising initiatives. Prior to this, Richard worked in multiple financial roles at Barclays Capital, qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Arthur Andersen, and also has experience of working in the technology industry at IBM and the energy industry at Mobil Oil.

He has a BSc in Business Studies from Aston University.

Location

London, United Kingdom

Links


Org chart


Teams


Offices


Inflexion

Inflexion is a mid-market private equity firm, investing in high growth, entrepreneurial businesses with ambitious management teams and working in partnership with them to accelerate growth. Inflexion’s flexible approach allows it to back both majority and minority investments, investing £10m to £300m of equity in each deal.


Industries

Employees

51-200

Links