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Richard Hine
Senior R&D Technical Consultant
Richard has 8 years of specialist expertise in R&D tax credit claims.
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Expertise
- First Class Honours degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering combined with 8 years of dedicated R&D tax credit practice
- Exceptional technical expertise in industrial automation, energy systems, and Revenue claim compliance
- Proven ability to identify genuine technological advancements across heavy engineering, plastics, and food processing
- Delivers technically sound, maximised, and fully audit-ready R&D Tax Credit claims for clients
Richard's deep technical literacy is grounded in practical engineering. Before specialising in innovation funding, Richard built an extensive career solving complex engineering challenges across major industrial and energy sectors. During a ten-year tenure at GE Power / Alstom Power, he managed multi-million sales and service contracts across the power generation industry. His major project management experience includes serving as a Contract Project Engineer on a €58m+ major food factory upgrade, where he monitored project budgets, managed site contractors, and oversaw equipment installation.
Qualifications & accreditation
Professional & academic qualifications
- BEng Hons First Class - Manufacturing Systems Engineering (Liverpool Sir John Moore University)
- BTEC HND & ONC - Production Engineering
- EITB Engineering Apprenticeship - British Coal (Mining Equipment Industry)
- Systems and Compliance Trained - AML Complaince trained, MS Office, AutoCAD, SAP, and CRM systems (Salesforce, Siebel)
Career & experience
Richard has 8 years of specialist expertise in R&D tax credit claims.
A results-driven and client-oriented professional, Richard excels at communicating across all organisational tiers, from operational site engineers to C-suite executives, ensuring maximum claim performance and strategic compliance. At TBAT Innovation Limited, Richard managed end-to-end R&D tax credit claims from initial client discovery through to financial preparation, technical claim reporting, and final submission to Revenue.
Operating as a crucial bridge between a client's internal technical teams and their accountants, he ensures the submission of robust, highly defensible innovation funding claims for both SMEs and large enterprises. He is also highly experienced in managing Revenue enquiries, actively responding to and leading defence meetings with Revenue caseworkers.
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