Posted by: Jon Dupre, Operations Director for North America at risr/ What is your name and where are you from? My name is Jon and I live in Ottawa, Canada. What is your job title and what do you do? I am the Operations Director for North America. I support the North American customers with…
Posted by: Melanie Whyte, Managing Director at risr/ What made you decide to work for this risr/? I spent my early career within heavily bureaucratic engineering companies. While the technologies I worked on were exciting and innovative, the way in which we worked always felt onerous, hierarchical and frustrating. The opportunity to create an organisation…
Posted by: Vic Pereira, Marketing Lead at risr/ What is your name and where are you from? My name is Lisa McClare and I live in Manchester, North of England. What is your job title and what do you do? I am a Project Manager and I champion the development of skills and toolkits for…
Posted by: Tim Jones, People and Culture Officer at risr/ What is your name and where are you from? My name is Tim and I am based in Balham, South London. What is your job title and what do you do? I am the People Person at risr/. As a People Person my role is…
Posted by: Paul Glover, Chief Operating Officer at risr/ What attracted you to work for this company? Having worked for 20+ years in large corporate organisations I had become tired of navigating bureaucracy at the expense of innovation, the people and actually getting things done. I’d known Fry, now risr/ for a number of…
Posted by: Mary Lawson, founding member of the risr/ Australian office What is your name and where are you from? My name is Mary Lawson and I am currently located in Melbourne, Australia. What do you do at risr/? My role is varied and I lead the Asia-Pacific team which was established in 2021 to…
Posted by: Zahid Malik, Chief Executive Officer at risr/ What made you decide to start this company? I was inspired by a Brazilian businessman called Ricardo Semler who created an amazing culture at his company based on trust and freedom. What’s your biggest hope/aspiration for this company? It’s a cliche but my aspiration for this…
Posted by: Keean Schupke, Chief Technology Officer at risr/ What made you decide to start this company? When we started, the Internet and the Web were only really used by universities and academic research organisations. It was easy to see that the internet was going to revolutionise computing and change the way business was done,…