Richard Wishart

For the last 3 years, Richard Wishart has been advising the United Nations specialist agency for posts (The Universal Postal Union) on RFID strategy and in particular on how the use of RFID for mail measurement can be extended. He was technical architect for the Global Monitoring System which has already been rolled out to the first 20 countries.

Delivery Management specializes in the tracking, association and the context of uniquely serialized items.

After graduating from Edinburgh University, Richard became a professionally qualified aircraft systems engineer in the Royal Air Force. Later at the London Stock Exchange he developed and implemented some of the market critical information systems associated with "Big Bang" deregulation. In the British Post office he led major systems implementation projects before taking on commercial responsibility for its overseas supplier selection and international commercial relationships. He was responsible for business systems strategy within a number of major postal joint venture projects.

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