Richard Hollingsworth is Regional Manager at Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI) and has responsibility for the company's activities in the Asia-Pacific region. He joined Bell & Howell in 1993 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A British national he has lived in Malaysia for four years prior to which he held positions with the company in England, UK. He also has experience of working with libraries and research centres in the Middle East and Africa.

He lived in Tokyo, Japan for four years between 1989-1993 working for International Thomson Publishing.