Richard Alvin
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| Richard Alvin FRSA | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Andrew Alvin 23 February 1975 Blackheath, London |
| 🎓 Alma mater | London Guildhall, London |
| 💼 Occupation | Company Director, author, journalist |
| Title | Freeman of the City of London Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) Royal Society of Arts |
Richard Andrew Alvin FRSA (born 23 February 1975 in Greenwich, South East London) is an entrepreneur in London.[edit]
Education[edit]
Alvin was educated at Davenant Foundation School, Loughton, Essex, and later London Guildhall University.[citation needed]
Business[edit]
Alvin started his career at the London Docklands Development Corporation, the UK Governments' urban development corporation to oversee the regeneration of 17 square miles of deserted former inner city Docks. Following the completion of the LDDC's regeneration remit he bought Docklands News, which was then the largest single edition local newspaper in the UK with a claimed readership figure of 147,000,000 copies every issue when distributed and later, after increasing the frequency to weekly, added a sister title City & Islington News to serve the City of London. Alvin went on to purchase an interest in Life Publishing.
Upon the sale of the previous companies Alvin created Audere Capital in 2006 which has gone on to invest £1.8m in media and fashion companies.[1] Its initial acquisition and investment was in Capital Business Media which purchased Business Matters, a then struggling business magazine, which in 2012 became the UK's largest business title and was the official business magazine to Team 2012, the Visa sponsored element of London2012.
Seven years after it was formed Alvin founded and invested in a number of new start and emerging companies and in July 2013, under Alvin's direction, Audere Capital invested in the Welsh PR company Cake Communications[2] seeing him join the board as executive director.
Awards and commendations[edit]
He was made a Freeman of the City of London in May 2010 for services for entrepreneurship.[3]
He is one of 27,000 fellows of the Royal Society of the Arts & Commerce allowing him to use the post-nominal letters FRSA.[4]
Alvin was named Entrepreneur of The Year in 2013 by the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Dockland's Business Club.[citation needed]
Local community work[edit]
Alvin was a member of the Docklands Business Club from 1999 to 2005, serving as the organisations' Vice Chairman and then in 2001 as a member of the council of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Alvin is also an advisor to new start businesses and was a volunteer of the UK Government backed StartUp Britain campaign for the London Docklands & Canary Wharf area.[5]
Alvin has a keen interest in local issues in Chigwell, Essex and was elected to the Chigwell Parish Council in 2008[6] serving as the council Vice Chairman in 2011-12 and 2014-15 & Chairman 2012-13 and 2015-16. He has also served as Chairman of the area Planning Committee between 2010 and 2019. He resigned from his position in June 2019[7]. He was also governor of Chigwell Row Infant School 2006-2007 & Chairman of Governors 2008–10. He was also governor of the secondary school, West Hatch School, in Chigwell from 2010−12 overseeing the schools transition from local authority to Academy Status. He was a governor of, the secondary school he attended in Loughton, Essex, Davenant Foundation School 2014-2017.
References[edit]
- ↑ Barry, Sion (2013-08-20). "Audere takes a slice of Cake Communications". walesonline. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- ↑ Tilley, Jonathan (2013-08-06). "Cardiff agency targets London clients after selling minority stake". PR Week. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- ↑ "List of Applications for the Freedom" (PDF). City of London. 2011-04-07.
- ↑ "Join the Fellowship - RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-08-28. Unknown parameter
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