Richard Koch is the author of 15 highly acclaimed books, including the best-selling 80/20 trilogy: The 80/20 Principle (over 700,000 copies sold), The 80/20 Individual, and most recently Living the 80/20 Way.
As well as lecturing and broadcasting, he is an extremely successful entrepreneur and investor.
His ventures have included Filofax, Belgo, Plymouth Gin, Capstone, and currently Betfair, the world?s largest betting exchange. Formerly he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, a partner of Bain & Company, and a founder of LEK Consulting.
He was educated at the Universityof Pennsylvania and at Oxford University.
He is now an outside director of several companies, including listed venture capital houses in Luxembourg and the UK. He has homes in London, Cape Town, and the south of Spain.