Author profile
Richard is CEO of Cambridge Consultants. He leads a global team to help clients redefine their industries through deep-tech strategies rooted in first-principle science and engineering, creating sustainable and defensible value.
He focuses on driving strategic growth and delivering transformative impact across telecommunications, space, healthcare, energy and industrial, defence and security, and consumer sectors. With extensive experience spanning R&D and general management in both consulting and product organisations, Richard has worked internationally from the USA to Asia. He specialises in turning bold, market-changing ideas into reality, partnering with ambitious organisations to create meaningful, lasting impact through innovation.
Space is shifting from an uncharted frontier to essential everyday infrastructure. In this Yomiuri Shimbun interview, Cambridge Consultants’ CEO, Richard Traherne, and Representative Director for Japan, Yoichi Ishige, urge Japan to move faster commercially, build on its strengths in safety-critical systems and sensing, and pursue global partnerships while balancing space sovereignty with international collaboration.
Discover how Japan is shaping the collaborative space economy through international partnerships, space innovation, regulation and initiatives ahead of SPACETIDE 2026.
Cambridge Consultants is proud to return as a Gold Sponsor of SPACETIDE 2026, continuing our commitment to accelerating innovation and commercialisation across the global space ecosystem.