Richard Sargeant
Chief Commercial Officer, Faculty

Richard Sargeant is the chief commercial officer at Faculty. Richard supports senior leaders across a variety of sectors to transform their businesses to use AI effectively. Previously, he was director of transformation at the Home Office, where he oversaw the creation of the second most advanced in-house machine learning capability in government; he was one of the founding directors of the UK’s Government Digital Service; and he was at Google. He has also worked at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and HM Treasury. He is a nonexec on the Board of Exeter University, and the Government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. He has a degree in political philosophy, economics, and social psychology from Cambridge University.