Richard Woods (2015 BBC Apprentice Final Five Candidate) , is an entrepreneur, speaker and author based in Surrey, England. He has a serious obsession for Entrepreneurship, Design and Digital Marketing.
 

Richard runs a large portfolio of businesses including:
 

• · A Digital Marketing Agency Yomp Marketing www.yompmarketing.com
• · A Videography, Audio and Photography Company Yomp VAP www.yompvap.com
• · An oil distribution business Top Up Fuels www.topupfuels.co.uk
• · A Property / Asset Management Business Yomp Consultancy.
   

His latest company to launch is The Digital TrailBlazer www.digitaltrailblazer.co.uk, which aims to help small service sector businesses rapidly grow using cutting edge marketing techniques. 
 

He is a frequent speaker at large business events, trade shows and seminars
 

He was a finalist upon BBC’s The Apprentice, Series 11 (2015) – Where we was the top seller across all tasks, won 8 out of 10 tasks and broke two Apprentice records one for most sales in one day (£4.3 million) and secondly “The best Advertising Task ever seen on The Apprentice” – Lord Sugar
 

He proudly studied ‘Business with Entrepreneurship’ at Southampton Solent University and received a first class hons for his final dissertation ‘Is there a link between Dyslexia and Entrepreneurship’.
 

Outside of business he has a love of rugby and will also be found on many a weekend half way up mountains hiking / climbing, with his brother and business partner Tim Woods and father Dennis Woods.
 

He is 32 years old and based in Surrey, England. Married to Cara Woods, son Mylo Woods and daughter Poppy Woods.