Richard Lingard

Scientific informatics · Commercial leadership · Founder

Richard Lingard

I have spent more than 30 years working where scientific software, customers and commercial growth meet. At Dotmatics, I helped grow revenue from £4 million to £16 million in three years. I now lead Adroit AI.

In brief

I started in molecular modelling and genomics, then moved into commercial leadership.

My work has involved understanding how scientists use data, building customer-facing teams and taking specialist software into international markets.

“Knowing what made the last generation of scientific data platforms successful, what can the next do better?”
30+years in scientific informatics
4×revenue growth in three years at Dotmatics
2×international commercial team at Dotmatics
4major global regions scaled
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Away from work

Skiing, travel and rowing.

Outside scientific informatics, I am a keen skier and traveller, and a former rower.

I still spend as much time as I can travelling and in the mountains.

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Adroit news

News & announcements

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LinkedIn · 12 June 2026

Adroit AI launches its unified chemistry and biology platform

The formal launch announcement for a single AI-ready environment connecting molecules, targets, reactions and assay results.

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LinkedIn · 10 July 2026

A faster, more accessible approach to scientific informatics

Adroit sets out its approach to rapid deployment, flexible hosting, patent intelligence and enterprise capability without enterprise overhead.

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LinkedIn · 24 June 2026

Why we built Adroit AI

Why I built Adroit to address fragmented chemistry and biology data.

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