Richard Alvin
Verified- Group Managing Director, Capital Business Media, Business Matters Magazine
- Editor-in-Chief, Travelling for Business
- Managing Editor, Electric Home
Richard Alvin’s Biography
As founder and Group Managing Director of Capital Business Media, now with offices in London, New York and Florida, where Alvin is based. He built Business Matters into the UK's largest business magazine, which now operates alongside titles including Travelling For Business, EV Powered, Not Ltd and Property Portfolio Investor. He is also chairman of Trends Research, the SME-focused research firm founded in partnership with the Telegraph Media Group.
Alvin is also a former advisor on small business to the UK Government and the Mayor of London, Richard is a Freeman of the City of London for services to business and charity, winner of the London Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year, and an Honorary Teaching Fellow and Entrepreneur in Residence at Lancaster University. In the US, he hosted the business-rescue television show Save Our Business, broadcast on HBO and TNT.