MISTRAL at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England in 2001.

Richard Hosking BSc(Hons). Operations Director. Graduating in Information Technology with a First Class Honours Degree in 1995 from De Montfort University. Key member of Mistral for 31 years and can take a large part of the credit for propelling Mistral into its world leading role in the industry it is dedicated to serving. Richard is to a computer what Beethoven is to a piano. Hard working, talented, lateral thinking programmer, team leader and organiser. Always conversant with unrelenting advances in computing technology. Unassailable.