Team profile

Richard Williams

Director of Strategic Partnerships

As Director of Strategic Partnerships, he develops relationships with mobile operators, local authorities and place-based organisations, helping turn connectivity ambitions into viable programmes and practical deployment.

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Role

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Previous Ontix role

Director of Acquisition

Works with

Mobile operators, local authorities and place-based organisations

About Richard

Richard is a strategic partnerships and connectivity leader with extensive experience across telecommunications, public-sector engagement, programme leadership and business transformation. He brings a commercial, collaborative approach to shaping partnerships that connect infrastructure investment with local and regional priorities.

Role at Ontix

Richard leads the development of strategic partnerships that help Ontix identify opportunities, align stakeholders and structure workable delivery models. His remit spans early engagement, asset access, commercial frameworks and mobilisation for indoor and outdoor mobile infrastructure.

He builds a shared understanding of coverage and capacity needs, local priorities and delivery constraints, bringing public and private partners together early to create investable programmes that support digital inclusion and economic growth.

Areas of expertise

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Strategic partnership development

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Local-authority and public-sector engagement

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Digital infrastructure and small-cell deployment

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Commercial frameworks and asset access

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Programme mobilisation and business transformation

Career experience

Before taking up his current role, Richard served as Director of Acquisition at Ontix, leading stakeholder engagement and securing routes to deploy small-cell infrastructure using public assets. He has led projects across the UK, working with councils, combined authorities and mobile operators.

Earlier, Richard ran his own management consultancy business specialising in telecoms and public infrastructure projects. He has held several senior interim leadership roles across the public and private sectors, covering programme delivery, strategic marketing and organisational change.

Professional qualifications

MSP and PRINCE2 Practitioner
CHAMPS2 Practitioner and ITIL-qualified

In Richard’s words

The best connectivity programmes start with an honest conversation about what a place needs. I bring public and private partners together early, so ambitions become plans that can be funded and built.