Richard Kent has been appointed as a Director at Osprey Technical following a career of over two decades at the top end of professional yacht race marine electronics.
Richard Kent
Richard joined the Hamble-based company that specialises in complex marine electronics for superyachts and racing yachts in 2021, to head up the Tiger Lily Too – Gunboat 90 refit in Newport RI.
His promotion to Director comes at stage where the company is growing rapidly and expanding its work with major superyacht yards and builders.
Starting out with an electronics qualification, Richard initially worked with established marine electronics firms, before moving to a variety of Volvo Ocean Race and America’s Cup campaigns. Starting with the IACC yachts for 2002 One World Challenge, he moved to the Victory Challenge, then Alinghi and subsequently to Oracle, for the first of the AC72 foiling cats.
After the Bermuda America’s Cup, Richard joined management team at Sailmon to help grow the business over a 2-year period.
“Becoming a Director at Osprey is a new career highlight for me,” comments Richard. “Previously, it was being part of the ABN Amro and Ericson teams that won the Volvo Ocean Race. As well as being closely involved in running the electronics teams for major projects, I’m going to be more involved with shaping the growth of Osprey and mentoring and developing our engineering team skill set.”
Outside of work, Richard has sailed at Hayling Island since childhood and still enjoys racing there when time allows, along with his wife and three children.