A senior commercial marketing leader with a record of delivering results across multiple disciplines, Chris has experience across multiple marketing disciplines. He started his career in creative marketing agencies, delivering TV, radio, digital and many other campaigns for a range of clients from Club Med to Arriva Buses, Calor Gas to Namco Bandai (formerly Atari). He then spent 10 years in commercial and marketing roles in the Live Events industry with the NEC Group. Here he did everything from running the Group’s digital and creative teams, to being Commercial and Marketing Director at the NEC Group’s data and ecommerce business (The Ticket Factory). In 2021 he moved to BT and is currently focussed on looking after EE’s Pay As You Go customer base, executing a broad range of marketing programs to improve the customer experience.
Chris has a passion for seeing young people develop in their careers and was previously Vice President of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce’s Future Faces. Having completed his tenure as Vice President, he then came to work with BCUSU in 2019 supporting across marketing, commercial and strategic transformation projects.
In his spare time, he is running around with his four children, playing sports (of any shape or size), enjoying music, technology and hunting for new challenges – the current one being cycling!