Richard Benson-Armer

Research Director & Senior Advisor at Activant Capital

Speaker

Richard Benson-Armer is the Research Director and a Senior Advisor at Activant Capital, a research-led growth equity investor backing relentless founders shaping industries and markets globally. He spends his time working with an outstanding team of Cape Town based researchers identifying emerging trends, market discontinuities, and those players likely to win. Activant actively supports teams and leaders to be more effective as they rapidly scale their businesses, and Richard also functions as a non-executive director of portfolio companies.

Prior to working with Activant he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he was the location managing partner in McKinsey’s Stamford office for 5 years and held global leadership roles in the Consumer Goods and Capability Building practices. He worked out of McKinsey’s Toronto, Sydney, Brussels, Seoul, and Stamford offices serving global and local clients in the consumer goods, retail banking, and B2B information services industries where he focused on issues of strategy, performance management, and capability building to support the rapid growth of companies. His experiences at McKinsey are complemented by strategy and operating roles at The Thomson Corporation, South African Breweries and Unilever.