Richard Smith CBE - Host City speaker

Richard Smith CBE

Position: Chief Operating Officer, Invictus Games

Richard served in the Army as a Brigadier having deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

He coordinated the contribution of 18,000 military personnel to the security of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. And he assisted in planning the security for the inaugural Invictus Games in London 2014. On leaving the Army in December 2015 he was appointed Director of Operations at the Stamford Endowed Schools before joining the Invictus Games Foundation full time in January 2019.