Richard Palmer (entrepreneur)

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Richard Palmer is an entrepreneur and the founder of the company D3O Lab. He raised millions of pounds of Business Angel and Venture Capital fund to get the business started and was so committed to making the project a success he even sold his car and house. https://www.epo.org/news-issues/press/releases/archive/2019/20190507h.html

In 1999, Richard Palmer founded an award-winning innovation consultancy after studying at the Royal College of Art, working with clients such as Herman Miller and Levi's.^[1] Palmer's office/studio design won the , competing against entrants such as Ted Baker and Sainsbury's. During this time, Palmer invented a new protective garment material since branded as D3O.^[2] The company received government funding to develop military hardware and has since won the o2 and Arena Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year award.^[3][1] Palmer has had multiple television appearances discussing the product, to include BBC News,^[4] CNBC,^[5] and Nippon.^[6] The product has also been reported in many newspapers and magazines, such as The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Richard is nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2019/palmer.html

Palmer holds an MA (RCA) and a BEng (Hons) in 1st Class Mechanical Engineering, as well as a diploma in engineering, from Imperial College London.

Sources[]

• d3o Official Site
• Interview with Richard Palmer
• What's the story? website

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External links[]

• d3o's Richard Palmer on Sky news on YouTube
• http://ideasuploaded.com/interview-with-richard-palmer-inventor-of-d30-an-impact-protection-material/

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