Getting to Know Richard Chester

Job Title: IT - RTB IB Service Operations Head of Release Management

Based out of:   Canary Wharf, London

Former Job:  IT Consultant, Accenture

What do you enjoy about your work:   The people. I have a very bright, diligent, enthusiastic team who have great ideas and are always looking to learn. They make my working life particular easy and enjoyable. The problem solving nature of the job with respect to the wide range of technologies is another motivating aspect.

About your family:  Married with 2 young children.

Favorite 3 movies of all time:

(apologies, very hard to cut down to 3)

Casablanca

This is Spinal Tap

Withnail and I

The Star Wars series

Raiders of the Lost Ark (not the series, just the first one!)

The Great Escape

The Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

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Favorite book:

(see comment above regarding numbers, even harder with books)

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Fatherland by Robert Harris

The Beach by Alex Garland

Papillon by Henri Charrière

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn

The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis

Bordersnakes by James Crumley

The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman

Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

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Favorite hobbies:

Skiing, cycling, football, reading.

Interesting fact about yourself:

I have a degree in Astrophysics and a PhD in something more applied and less explicable. Both come in extremely useful in my daily working life in an investment bank....