Major General Richard Matthew McQueen Sykes CVO (born 1955) is a retired senior British Army officer.
From 2010 to 2014 he was group chief executive of Elizabeth Finn Care, a large charity providing relief from poverty in the UK.
[2] He went on to be Strategic Policy Chief at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in 1997, Chief Co-ordinator of Joint Firepower for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in 2000 and Director of Corporate Communications for the Army at the Ministry of Defence in 2002.
During his time as Defence Services Secretary, he was responsible for the introduction of the Elizabeth Cross awarded to families of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack since the Second World War.
[3] After leaving the Army, from 2010 to 2014 he was group chief executive of Elizabeth Finn Care, a British charity helping people in the UK struggling with financial hardship.