has over 10 years of experience building global technology businesses. He began his career in the wireless telecoms sector, working on new product development and international distribution for world leading handset makers, carriers and financial services companies. He has been with ITOCHU since 2003, working in a variety of emerging technology sectors, most recently focusing on CleanTech. His role encompasses venture investing, international business development, strategy development and project management.

He has extensive experience in the China market. In 1998 he led a major study of how leading foreign and domestic brands across 15 industries had successfully developed their market positions and distribution networks over time in China. He has spent one third of his life in Asia, and has lived in 8 countries and traveled and worked in over 40 nations.

He graduated in 1994 with a Masters in Engineering and Management from Oxford University, where he was a scholar and winner of the university management prize. He has recently successfully completed the final level of the CFA program examinations. He enjoys golf, tennis, swimming and other outdoor pursuits.

has been an entrepreneur and investor in clean-tech related businesses for over 10 years.

As founder of Advent, Mr. Kinsman has been responsible for initiating and developing strategic venture investments in industrial cleantech companies and for overall positioning of Itochu’s U.S. based clean-tech investment activity.

Previously as Director at Global Technologies, LLC, an ITOCHU portfolio company spun out of Raytheon/Los Alamos National Lab, Richard was responsible for licensing, business development, and strategic marketing of a liquid carbon dioxide cleaning technology (DryWash*). DryWash was an R&D Magazine 100 award winner voted the # 1 new technology of the year by Popular Science magazine in 1996. Global Technologies licensed this technology to 10 major worldwide OEMs in the machinery, chemistry, and industrial gas industries, including Electrolux AB, AGA-Linde GmBH (Europe), Alliance Laundry Systems, Inc. and Chart Industries (US) and Sail Star Ltd., (China). These licensees are currently selling systems in commercial markets worldwide.

Richard began his career as an Economist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C., conducting market and cost/benefit analysis of various proposed agency initiatives. He also served as a Project Manager for the Agency’s Design for Environment (DfE) group, a non-regulatory initiative focused on voluntary adoption of new cleaner technology by small businesses as an alternative to regulation.

He holds a B.A in Economics (1992) and an M.A in Public Policy with an Economics concentration (1994) from the College of William and Mary, where he was a scholarship varsity football player. Richard was raised in South America and has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia.