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Chris has a background of technology mixed with commerce. Recently he has majored in the delivery of bids and proposals for modernising government.

His early career was in BT where he ensured that BT’s £6Bn p.a. core network business understood and met the future needs of BTs’ customers and channels to market. Prior to that he co-ordinated the BT sales, service and marketing initiatives targeting the travel and distribution sector across UK, Europe, Americas and Asia.

More recently Chris was seconded from BT to the Central IT Unit (now e-envoys office) in the Cabinet Office. He left the Cabinet Office end April 1999 to pursue the practical delivery of Modernising Government. Whilst in the Cabinet Office Chris initiated and established the policy framework for the exploitation of commercial third parties in the delivery of government services and he contributed to the development of the Modernising Government white paper. He participated in the development of “Building The New Library Network” report, and worked on the review of the operational licence for Post Office Counters Limited, the IT support for the European Convention of Human Rights, the Select Committee on Broadcasting, e-democracy etc.

He didn’t start like this. He spent 2 years at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and another three years at The Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham doing a first degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering.

For the last few years Chris has been involved in the practical delivery of “Modernising” government. Recent activities include an involvement in

1. Local Government online bid to integrate delivery of Pensions, Housing Benefit and Jobcentre Plus (£7.33M)
2. Local Government online bid to integrate the Valuation Office with The Local Authorities Billing Agencies (£2m)
3. H M Treasury Invest to Save bid to “Transform Local Authority Systems” (£12m)
4. Automation of the searches involved in the house buying process in England and Wales (NLIS).
5. Bids to provide IT training for 500,000 people over three years using the public library network. Exploiting the libraries position in society and contributing to it. (NOF, Invest to Save and Capital Modernisation bids)
6. Local authorities implementing the Modernising Government agenda in England and Scotland
7. Business case and service requirements definition for DETR bid to automate Local-Central communications
8. Demand aggregation service bid for IDeA Marketplace
9. SME services in Scotland
10. Regional development and Objective One funded broadband initiatives. Establishing a trading entity to acquire a regional broadband infrastructure

In general Chris contribution has been focussed on business case and bid development, service delivery to the Citizen (rather than internal systems) and customer service measures.

Chris is also involved in the development of other companies. These tend to be in the area of emerging technology. He is also involved with the family giftware business. He has also been responsible for the conversion of an 1820 five floor Georgian terraced house in St Marylebone.