Jordan Richards
CEO & Co-Founder, &above
Jordan Richards is CEO and Co-Founder of &above.
Jordan began his career at Google at 18 through an apprenticeship, going on to become a design lead and work on global-scale design, content and technology solutions. That experience shaped his belief that technology is most valuable when it is grounded in real user needs and built to work at scale.
He went on to build and lead businesses across design, technology and creative production before bringing those disciplines together at &above. Today, he works with leadership teams to identify where AI can create genuine business value and turn those opportunities into working products and systems.
Under Jordan's leadership, &above has worked with organisations including Google, Tesco, Revolut, Sage and Upstix. He regularly speaks and writes about AI adoption, AI investment and value, building versus buying AI, the future of work, AI native products, entrepreneurship and what it takes to move from AI pilots to systems that businesses can actually rely on.
Media topics
- AI adoption and value
- AI investment
- AI strategy
- Build vs buy
- AI native businesses
- Entrepreneurship
- Design and technology
- Apprenticeships and alternative routes into tech
- Leadership and building high-performing teams







