Chris holds a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen LLP in 1979 where he spent his early career.
Chris has considerable financial and operational experience and became the Finance Director of Unipalm Group plc, from 1996 to 2001. He then went on to become CFO of Searchspace Group Limited from 2001 until 2005. Chris then went on to hold a number of non-executive roles across a range of companies with a technology focus in many cases.