Chris is a commercial and procurement executive with unrivalled expertise of publicly funded fibre-broadband programmes and more than 30 years’ experience in the UK telecommunications and broadband sector. For the 8 years prior to joining The Project Advisory Group, Chris was engaged with BDUK to provide senior commercial, procurement, contract and supplier management capability and was the lead advisor to the £2.5Bn Superfast Broadband Programme where he supported most of the local authorities in England and all devolved governments of the UK to procure and contractually close over 150 multimillion-pound procurements that are now delivering superfast and fibre broadband to over 6 million premises. He is adept at building strong relationships, a delivery-focused advisor – able to work with clients to form strategic thinking but importantly, can turn strategy into tangible delivery of outputs. Chris will enable clients to achieve their digital infrastructure objectives as part of the UK Government’s Digital Strategy for Gigabit broadband, public sector fibre networks, 5G connectivity and Smart City infrastructure.

IAUK is a rapidly growing advisory firm supporting national Governments and public sector bodies in business case development, procurement, commercial & financial management and delivery of strategically important economic infrastructure projects including fibre broadband, telecoms & mobile networks, rail franchise & metro networks and public transportation systems.