Richard Fennell is the the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. As well as being responsible for the delivery of systems and tools used by Black Marble, he also consults with clients of all sizes in the area of ALM & DevOps processes.

He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM (nee Team System), an ALM Ranger, a Typemock MVP, a Certified Scrum Master, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng).