A digital and management practice committed to helping you navigate the 4th Industrial Revolution. Enabling your organisation to thrive through the innovative yet pragmatic application of technology and process.
Combining creative thinking with deep expertise
Rich Wainwright, the founder of 4IR Solutions has a wealth of experience working for both technology solution providers and for client organisations implementing imaginative and transformational technology-based business solutions.
Rich began his career as an IT service desk analyst and worked his way up through project and programme management into a variety of senior leadership roles including CEO, CIO, Strategy Director, Product Director and Managing Director.
Rich has held executive board director level roles since his late 20's within a variety of organisations including Boeing, RAC, Aviva and Civica. Throughout his career, Rich has been focussed on delivering tangible business benefit through the innovative yet pragmatic application of technology.
Business Strategy
Past projects and achievements
Implemented a strategy to transform a software business into a digital platform and ecosystem provider delivering digital banking solutions to the UK financial services and retail banking sector.
Contract Negotiation
Negotiated a ten year, multi-million pound contract with a strategic technology partner to disrupt the provision of loans and savings solutions to specialist banks and building societies.
Technology Strategy
Devised and executed a technology strategy to transform a traditional software application provider to a SaaS cloud-based FinTech based on microservices architecture.
Innovation and Investment
Achieved acceptance onto the prestigious Innovate UK Edge Scale Up Assistance Programme through being identified as a company with the highest growth potential in the UK and secured European Regional Development Fund investment for the development of an app to disrupt the live music sector.
Business Disruption
Created a vision, strategy and new business unit to disrupt how digital transformation is delivered to external clients in the defence and security sector
Programme Management
Transformed the profitability of a £1.1Bn IT transformation and digitisation programme through contract renegotiation, enhancing efficiencies, controlling costs and boosting revenues by £400m.
Business Development
Spearheaded numerous sales bids and won new business contracts worth up to £117m.