Rip began programming software for the Self-Storage industry almost 30 years ago but, after being made redundant when his previous employer ceased trading, he wanted to be able to continue to both support the customers who used the program he'd helped write and to be able to continue with its development. In 1992 he therefore started RADical Systems by buying an ‘off the shelf’ company from WH Smiths. He spent the first 7 years or so on his own, working out of an upstairs back bedroom, and after 9 years RADical Systems had grown to the point where we moved into the first half of our current offices in Guildford. He is famous for always wearing a bush hat and a leather Gilet, whatever the weather!