Sir Richard John Gage Heygate, 6th

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(born 1940) is a businessman and writer. As a businessman, he is chiefly known for being part of the team which created the world's first on-line ATM and for a long career as a

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partner. As a writer, he has co-authored two books about England published by John Murray.

Career

Richard Heygate is the son of Sir

John Heygate Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th Baronet (19 April 1903 – 18 March 1976), was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his liaison in 1929 with Evelyn Gardner while she was married to Evelyn Waugh. He is portr ...

, a writer, and

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, a Gaumont Company

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actress. He was educated at Repton School and

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. After leaving Oxford Richard Heygate joined IBM in its Banking Division and led the team that created the first on-line ATM for

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. The Bank itself was built by his maternal grandfather, Howard Lloyd, in the 19th century. After IBM, he began a long career in Management Consultancy McKinsey in two separate periods, during the second of which he was elected a partner. In the middle of this career, he resigned to run the family estates in

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. He created a modern food factory and exported luxury products, such as

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, throughout the world. A local newspaper in

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dubbed him "Le Roi de Saumon Fume". Richard Heygate has published a number of articles in his company's business journal, the ''

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''. Most recently, he has been involved in writing, TV and radio, including *''The Bart and the Bounder'' (

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, air date 28 Feb 2006) *''Endangered Species'' (Hardback 2007), (Paperback 2008) *''The Book of English Magic'' (Hardback 2009), (Paperback 2010), (US edition 2010)

References

External links

LinkedIn biography"The Power of Process Redesign"
''McKinsey Quarterly''.
"Memo to a CEO"
''McKinsey Quarterly''
"Being intelligent about intelligent Technology"
''McKinsey Quarterly''
"Immoderate Redesign"
''McKinsey Quarterly''.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heygate, Richard Living people 1940 births Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Repton School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford