 Through
his passion for original art, Richard Thompson has provided innovated
solution strategies for Online Marketing and Management, devoting his
expertise to galleries and the art world. Born and raised in Toronto,
Canada, Richard graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of
Honours in Engineering Science. Richard is also passionate about traveling
and the outdoors. He has hiked Canada’s West Coast Trail, the Grand
Canyon, Nepal, Austria, Switzerland and France. Richard speaks four
languages including German a language learned during a four month work
experience in Munich.
A year at Celestica/IBM in Toronto and three years at Seanix Technology
in Richmond, B.C developed Richard’s understanding of designing,
managing, and promoting technology. Richard left Seanix in the Autumn of
1998 and with his fiancé, artist Sara Genn, moved to Europe to create
their online illustrated travelogue Saraphina Mosey (www.saraphina.com).
Richard remotely self-published their year-long journey through Ireland,
France, Spain and North Africa in their 1978 Alfa Romeo.
Witnessing over eight years of Sara’s work experiences, Richard
realized the imminent need for galleries to control their own web sites
and online presence to operate as an effective second gallery.
Subsequently, Richard conceived of the idea to take the online gallery one
step further and match it with a customer relations management system.
Richard developed an enabling user-friendly program for galleries to
publish their own original art images online as well as send photo-packs
to existing and prospective clients in minutes. The turn-key Theo Digital
Gallery System was created to give any gallery content control and the
ability to manage an otherwise intimidating technology and one-of-a-kind
inventory.
Richard enjoys simplifying and applying technology -- making it more
effective and user-friendly to every day life. With Theo, Richard has
increased the possibilities of making visual information exchange over the
Internet accessible. Richard is successfully bridging the gap between the
global scale of the Internet and the intimate experience of original art.
With his development of thoughtful and efficient software, Richard’s
goal is to champion the best of the world’s original art online.
Richard Thompson lives with Sara Genn in Vancouver, Canada with their
Airedale, Dorothy.
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