Team
Richard McLean
Exec Chair & Co-founder
LinkedInRichard has been here at ElementX since the beginning as one of the three co-founders, and has 20 years of service delivery establishing new products and new markets. Richard is eager to explore opportunities, challenges, and productivity improvements in today’s dynamic environment.
What do you find most rewarding about your work at ElementX?
‘One of the things I really like about being here is the dynamic nature of the technologies we work with; there is always lots to learn when things change fast.’
If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?
‘I would be a humpback whale - because they live a long time, they travel the world for free and can probably talk to dolphins.’
Posts by Richard
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The Hidden Cost of Waiting on AI
What's the risk of doing nothing? Richard McLean explores why staying on the sidelines might be the most costly choice.
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Happy 10th Birthday, ElementX!
Founders Daniel Xu, Ming Cheuk, and Richard McLean reflect on a decade of building ElementX (formerly Spark 64), the AI breakthroughs they have lived through, and the lessons they pass on to organisations starting their own AI journey.
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AI Governance Series: To Build or to Buy?
How boards should approach the build-or-buy question for AI, covering trade-offs around speed, control, talent, maintenance, and capex versus opex, plus the often non-binary middle ground of building on top of pre-trained models.