Business leader · Entrepreneur · Author
Business.Leadership.Resilience.
Richard Stephenson brings international business experience to the challenges of technology, leadership and organisational resilience.
Experience & perspective
Leadership,
built through experience.
Richard’s career spans private equity, public companies and technology ventures. He has served as CEO and chairman of businesses operating across the UK, Europe, the USA and Asia.
Today, as founder and CEO of YUDU, his focus includes the technology that helps organisations communicate, coordinate and keep working through disruption.
Explore Richard’s background
- Early careerManagement training at Unilever, followed by business ventures in the Middle East and Malaysia.
- Corporate leadershipCommercial Director at Cape and Divisional CEO at Scapa, followed by leadership of Madison Filter.
- Private equityOperating Partner at Duke Street Capital, with chairmanships including Xafinity and Deloro Stellite.
- TechnologyFounder and CEO of YUDU, spanning digital publishing and the Sentinel crisis communications platform.
Current focus · YUDU Sentinel
Keeping leadership connected when it matters most.
Sentinel gives organisations an independent space to communicate and coordinate a crisis response when their everyday systems are unavailable or compromised.
Explore SentinelRecognised by the Business Continuity Institute
YUDU Sentinel · Europe 2025 · Continuity & Resilience Provider
Ideas for leaders
Selected perspectives.
What Your IT Director Isn’t Telling You — And Why It’s Your Problem
Cyber risk, board accountability and the questions non-executive directors need to ask.
Read perspectiveSame Controls, Less Time: Responding to AI Cyber Threats
How accelerating threats are changing the time available to prepare, respond and recover.
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The book · Richard Stephenson
The Grey Zone
Why Britain and Europe are losing the war they don’t know has started.
An examination of cyber disruption, interconnected risk and the decisions leaders must make to keep organisations and essential services running.
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