Skills and experience:

Richard Ogdon has more than 35 years experience in the financial sector, with senior positions in investment banking, private equity, and fintech with a focus on the development of the Russian and CIS financial markets.
From 2012-2018 Mr. Ogdon served as an Independent Non Executive Director and Board Audit Committee Chair at the U.K. FCA regulated Russian securities brokerage Sova (previously Otkritie) Capital.
In the 2000s Richard Ogdon worked in Moscow at Russia’s leading independent investment bank Troika Dialog as Head of Investment Banking (2003-2005) and then as Chief Risk and Capital Officer (2006-2011).
Mr. Ogdon began his career at UBS Warburg in 1987 where he worked for 13 years until 2000 starting the bank’s business in Russia in 1992 and establishing the bank’s Moscow office in 1994.
Mr. Ogdon has worked in education- at his alma mater Eton College in 2013 and at the Cambridge Careers Research Advisory Centre 2000-2003 -helping both organizations raise money for new educational projects.
Mr. Ogdon is a member of the supervisory board of the Russian Independent Directors Association and international goodwill ambassador of the Aurora Forum – a global humanitarian initiative.

Education:

Mr. Ogdon graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford University, Department of Classics and Modern Languages, BA (1984-1987).