Richard Alvin
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Richard Andrew Alvin (born February 23, 1975 in Greenwich, South East London) is a prominent and high-profile young business leader in London.
Alvin was educated at Davenant Foundation School, Loughton, Essex, and later London Guildhall University, where he was the youngest candidate to complete the Advertising & Marketing trade qualifications set by the CAM Foundation.
He started his career at the London Docklands Development Corporation, the UK Governments' urban development corporation to oversee the regeneration of 17 square miles of deserted former inner city Docks. Following the completion of the LDDC's regeneration remit he bought Docklands News, which was then the largest single edition local newspaper in the UK with a claimed readership figure of 147,000 copies every issue when distributed and later, after increasing the frequency to weekly, added a sister title City & Islington News to serve the City of London.
Alvin was a member of the Docklands Business Club from 1999 to 2005, serving as the organisations' Vice Chairman and then in 2001, at 26, he was the youngest member of the council of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
