Chris has held a senior economic development post in local government, led international teams in publicly quoted technology companies and served in top management consultancies delivering high-value contracts into HM Government. Now retired from full time paid employment, Chris acted in the role of the Local Authority appointed governor on the board of a Hampshire school from 2019-2023 and currently contributes as a trustee and volunteer in the charity sector.

Chris was seconded in 2015, then headhunted in 2016, from PA Consulting & EY into local government to manage and market Science Vale, the Oxfordshire enterprise zone clustered around the UK's 'Big Science' infrastructure at Harwell Campus, Culham Science Centre and Milton Park.In 2016, working alongside the councils' strategic director towards successful recognition through the Government's second enterprise zone award, Chris established a second Oxfordshire enterprise zone. This resulted… Show more Chris was seconded in 2015, then headhunted in 2016, from PA Consulting & EY into local government to manage and market Science Vale, the Oxfordshire enterprise zone clustered around the UK's 'Big Science' infrastructure at Harwell Campus, Culham Science Centre and Milton Park.In 2016, working alongside the councils' strategic director towards successful recognition through the Government's second enterprise zone award, Chris established a second Oxfordshire enterprise zone. This resulted in the Didcot Growth Accelerator, with the potential to attract leading science and technology investment capable of achieving £140m of business rate income.Chris provided direction and guidance resulting in the creation of a powerful brand for Science Vale UK centred on the two enterprise zones and the world renown science campuses at Harwell, Culham and Milton Park, positioning these assets to be the growth engines for a transformational Garden Town development at Didcot.Chris authored the innovation sections of the Didcot Garden Town Delivery Plan, successfully recognised and awarded status within the UK Government's Garden Town programme.Chris was instrumental in the formation of a private-public consortium led by First Group, operators of First Great Western, for a bid into the UK Government’s CAV3 (Competition for Autonomous Vehicles Round 3) funding competition. This successful application resulted in a project being run to gain experience of operating an integrated MaaS (Mobility as a Service) public transit trial using autonomous shuttles, taxis and coaches, one of the first in the UK. Show less

Chris was employed by EY and PA Consulting Group on behalf of The Department for International Trade (previously UKTI) to attract foreign direct investment into the UK within the advanced engineering & manufacturing (AEM) sector & to work with foreign-owned UK based companies to deliver growth

Chris was employed by the Regional Development Agency to assist strategically important companies to UK Government in the advanced engineering sector by delivering bespoke productivity, growth and cost base reduction solutions in response to their issues.

Chris was responsible for in-region and country; lead generation, corporate marketing and brand value delivery, PR and communications, marketing programs, distributer and reseller channel relationships to deliver sales revenues that met or exceeded the plan for Manhattan Associates in Europe, Middle East and Africa

Chris was responsible for in-region and country; lead generation, marketing communications, branding and PR.Upon taking on the role, Chris identified that an organisational change strategy and action plan needed to be conceived and approved by senior management to restructure and re-motivate an under-performing team, whilst ensuring no loss of talent. Chris completed this successfully, achieving the forecast benefits for the organisationOperationally Chris was accountable for managing… Show more Chris was responsible for in-region and country; lead generation, marketing communications, branding and PR.Upon taking on the role, Chris identified that an organisational change strategy and action plan needed to be conceived and approved by senior management to restructure and re-motivate an under-performing team, whilst ensuring no loss of talent. Chris completed this successfully, achieving the forecast benefits for the organisationOperationally Chris was accountable for managing activity, budgeting and reporting on the return on investment from the corporate EMEA marketing communications budget. Show less

Contract supply for the NHS Direct telephone triage system

As Technical Support & Customer Training Manager, Chris was responsible for; connecting retail and banking sector trading partners' back office systems on GE's proprietary electronic value-added networks, extranets and intranets; end user customer training on GE's network connectivity software; and customer second-line technical support on GE's distributed, mini and mainframe connectivity software productsAs Product and Service Marketing Manager, Chris was responsible for product and… Show more As Technical Support & Customer Training Manager, Chris was responsible for; connecting retail and banking sector trading partners' back office systems on GE's proprietary electronic value-added networks, extranets and intranets; end user customer training on GE's network connectivity software; and customer second-line technical support on GE's distributed, mini and mainframe connectivity software productsAs Product and Service Marketing Manager, Chris was responsible for product and service marketing of GE's UK Tradanet and European Global Express electronic trading services, later for GE's extranet and intranet replacements for these proprietary networks Show less

Marketing management of Vodafone's paging service network in the UK

As a business planning manager, Chris was responsible for the UK company business planning process and market research supporting the development and sign off of the annual business planAs a printer, then colour copier, product manager, Chris was responsible for the product life cycles of a series of printers and copiers in the UK and German markets from; the identification of market need and evaluation of product opportunity to commercial launch management, through in-life product… Show more As a business planning manager, Chris was responsible for the UK company business planning process and market research supporting the development and sign off of the annual business planAs a printer, then colour copier, product manager, Chris was responsible for the product life cycles of a series of printers and copiers in the UK and German markets from; the identification of market need and evaluation of product opportunity to commercial launch management, through in-life product commercial performance evaluation, enhancement and reporting, marketing and sales support, to product life cycle extension, market withdrawal and new product replacement.As a concessionaire channel manager, Chris was responsible for product management and third-party distribution and channel management, performance and reporting Show less

International work experience based at the company's commercial and production head office in Gutach, Germany, combined with intensive German tuition at a spracheschule in Freiburg im Breisgau.