Successful businessman, professional sportsman, elite performance coach, high altitude mountaineer, entrepreneur, accomplished motivational speaker, cancer survivor, sought after mentor, global strategist and a total failure at school………

……Richard Cotter has packed a lot of life into his Life

From playing golf against multiple major winners Sir Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and Sandy Lyle, summiting Kilimanjaro and Mont Blanc with Sir Chris Bonington and building Berghaus the eponymous British brand into a global market leader, Richard has both the experience and a unique ability, to correlate the risk and adventure of high-altitude mountaineering, professional sport and elite performance coaching with the risk and adventure of running businesses in corporate life. Drawing parallels which deliver success in both fields and articulating them in a pragmatic and actionable way.

Richard has built a reputation for the rapid turnaround, transformation and growth of consumer businesses, delivering significant Shareholder value creation at every organisation he has worked with

He is now Chairman of a portfolio of household retail and consumer names, International Leisure Group, American Golf, Jollyes The Pet Superstore, Silentnight, New Look, Jack Wolfskin, alongside the strategic consulting and business re-engineering work he does for Private Equity Investors