Who I am
My name is Richard Osborne born in the Luton & Dunstable Hospital in 1974, and commonly known as Ozzy on many business forums on the Internet such as the UK Business Forums where I am happy to provide business advice and support on many other Entrepreneurs.
Currently I live in Northampton with my wife and two children where I also run my own business, Quick Formations, which is a company registration agent that specialising in setting up new companies and providing ongoing statutory compliance support to many accountants and solicitors throughout the UK and rest of the world. More recently I have also become a Parent Governor to my daughters school in Kislingbury.
In the little spare time that I do have I am also a Northamptonshire Ambassador, a volunteer advisor to Young Enterprise, and an award winning Business Champion for EMDA. Speaking of awards, my business Quick Formations has won its fair share of awards ranging for Innovation in Technology through to Best Customer Care. After having a flurry of winning 12 awards we no longer enter business awards because we’ve done it now, it’s no longer news and we’ve proven we can win awards for what we do.
My family is very important to me so I make a point of always ensuring that whenever possible I am home by 6pm every
working day, and my weekends are family time also. When I do have my own time I make a choice between either enjoying the Northamptonshire country lanes on my R1 motorcycle, or more often than not now I’m getting on a bit I play golf, such as in this photo of my father-in-law teeing off when I took him for a game at my home club, Whittlebury Golf & Country Club. Since losing my mother-in-law on New Years Day in 2007 I’ve introduced Ray to Golf and he’s taken to it rather well. A bit too well as it was months before I would use my driver when I started and he belts the ball a bit too well for my liking :-). Now the golfers amongst you will notice that he seems to be leaning back, arms bent and not too well balanced, not that I’m worried as it still means I win which is all that counts!
Finally, I actually enjoy public speaking and specifically working with the younger generation in inspiring them to consider working for themselves in the future when they leave school or university. This picture is of me speaking to around 80 students studying Entrepreneurialism at Nottingham University for which I received some fantastic feedback, and truly enjoyed giving. Whether the subject is motivational or based around things I have learnt along my own journey of being an Entrepreneur, I am an energetic individual and share my experiences with a passion.
Talks given at academic institutions are done under my work with the EMDA Business Champions. Not for financial remuneration and purely aimed at helping inspire and motivate the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.