 In 1958 he was working as an account executive for McCann-Erickson, a firm that produced a regular television program and in the mid 1960s Richardson and three others from this firm decided to form their own production company, Nimbus 9.Initially, audio recording was only one aspect of Nimbus 9, which was formed to provide multi-media production to their clients.Within a brief period of time, however, audio recording became the single focus of operations.