About
Three decades at the intersection of media, enterprise and the small business economy.
Richard Alvin is a serial entrepreneur and investor whose career began at the London Docklands Development Corporation before he acquired Docklands News, then the UK's largest single-edition local newspaper.
As founder and Group Managing Director of Capital Business Media, now with offices in London, New York and Florida, he built Business Matters into the UK's largest business magazine, appointed the official business magazine of the London 2012 Olympics, alongside titles including Travelling For Business, EV Powered, Not Ltd and Property Portfolio Investor. He is also chairman of Trends Research, the SME-focused research firm founded in partnership with the Telegraph Media Group.
A former advisor on small business to the UK Government and the Mayor of London, Richard is a Freeman of the City of London for services to business and charity, winner of the London Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year, and an Honorary Teaching Fellow and Entrepreneur in Residence at Lancaster University. In the US, he hosted the business-rescue television show Save Our Business, broadcast on HBO and TNT.