Richard Fordham has over forty years’ experience within the hospitality industry and can draw on a solid craft-based background as a chef and catering manager to augment the thirty years spent providing equipment solutions to the sector, working for a number of manufacturers in sales roles, both in the UK and Middle East. With an active interest in the built environment, in 2019 he formed Ki-Tech Solutions, with business partner, Andy Fulham, to provide a platform from which to promote an energy optimisation system and to explore the wider arena of remote monitoring and connectivity.