Richard M. Holmes

Richard is founder and CEO of Leading Locally Ltd, and the mobile Lolly app and cryptocurrency launching Q3 2018. Lolly reinvents the relationship between customers and brands on mobile. The Lolly cryptocurrency is used to reward users for "information mining", creating a true mass-market currency reward system. Richard's career as founder, director and investor in e-commerce, social media, gaming, software development and video games publishing spans over 25 years. He has designed and produced three #1 games in the UK charts, including Tactical Manager and Football Glory published by Black Legend, and over 400 further product launches worldwide. Richard has substantial experience in retail distribution and marketing (in the days before the digital distribution of video games, selling games world-wide involved distribution, shelf-space buying at Wal-Mart, manufacturer discounts, booking shopfront displays and sell-through marketing). Richard completed a London AIM stock exchange flotation with IncaGold PLC in 2005, was a founder in Silicon Valley VC-backed venture Stiki Digital Inc, and has acted as ecommerce consultant to the Isle of Man Government, as non-executive director on boards of media and gaming businesses on the Isle of Man. Richard has worked on product launches with brands as diverse as Nestlé, Kellogg’s, Yokohama and the RSPCA, creating video games promotion, social media marketing applications and social commerce marketplaces. Richard is an advisor to the cryptocurrency networking system Kryptopy, based in Quebec, Canada. Richard is actively involved in children's rights charities across Europe, working against child abuse, pathogenic parenting, parental alienation and international child abduction. He is a founder and board member of two charities, SOS Child Abduction e.V. in Berlin, Germany, and International Child Abduction Slovakia in Napoli, Italy, and campaigns for children's rights with the EU, ECHR and national governments.