Richard Batty
Mr. Batty has a broad background in business planning, marketing and operations for Fortune 50 and startup companies, particularly in the technology sector. He has extensive experience in preparing forecasts, budgets, and business plans for new product, capital expenditure, staffing and schedule requirements that have resulted in substantial revenue generation and cost reductions. He also has deep experience in defining customer requirements for product features and in financial analysis.
His operations and general management experience includes leading a team of 40 through a $34 million IPO for an enterprise software product. Mr. Batty has built strategic partner relationships at companies such as Autodesk where he developed and managed relationships with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Apple.

Richard has specific experience in enterprise software, including CRM and directories, as in his roles as Vice President Marketing at Radiant Logic, Inc. and as General Manager at ReSourcePhoenix.com. He has defined and led marketing initiatives, liaised with journalists and industry analysts such as Gartner, presented at industry conferences, and has created marketing collateral, presentations, white papers, press releases and web site content. At Hewlett-Packard, Inc., he developed and managed programs for the introduction of a strategic minicomputer I/O card and developed other vertical marketing and customer upgrade programs. He has led numerous customer visits in support of sales initiatives.

Mr. Batty has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Richard is also fluent in French.