Gravity Industries designs, builds and flies Jet Suits, pioneering a new era of human flight. The company was founded in March 2017 to challenge the perceived boundaries in human aviation and to inspire others to dare to ask “What if?”.
Prior to founding Gravity, Richard was a Royal Marines reservist for six years and an Oil Trader with BP for 16 years. He developed business in many countries including Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Russia and
conducted trade relations with many more.
He discovered and implemented major new technologies in BP including turning a $30k ground-breaking trade flow analytics (ship tracking) platform into an award-winning venture, winning the BP Group
innovation Award and generating in excess of $50m within the first 3 months. This platform is still at the heart of the global commodity industry to this day. Richard has also been a key participant and investor in a number of successful start-up ventures externally and is a passionate STEM advocate.
Gravity has to date been experienced by over one billion people globally with Richard and his cohort of pilots completing over 150 flight events around the world and speaking at dozens of events from TED
Talks to XPrize.
When he is not flying around the world, Richard is in Salisbury with his wife Debbie and their two
children, Oliver and Thomas, kayaking and camping amongst other things