Richie is one of the owners of EAC. Born in South Wales, he is a modern languages graduate from Reading University and qualified as an English teacher in 1983. He has lived and worked in Egypt, Spain, Italy, Kuwait and Germany as well as the UK.
Richie has extensive experience working within the English language industry and has held various managerial positions prior to starting EAC. He speaks Italian, Spanish, French and German as well as some Arabic. He is married to Liz who is a teacher with EAC and they have three teenage children.