Richard Newman has more than 20 years of experience in applications and infrastructure across both the retail and hospitality vertical markets. He was co-founder and CTO of Reliant prior to their acquisition by Acumera in 2022. He holds multiple patents in the edge computing space and was the primary designer of the Acumera Edge Computing Platform. He is considered one of the leading innovators in the restaurant space bringing edge computing solutions from concept to reality for both large and small operators. His technical expertise extends to cloud, DevOps, networking, agile software architectures, and information security.