Chris was previously the Chief Executive of Catch22, the social business delivering cradle to career public services across England and Wales. He stepped down in July 2022 following 11 years in the role. He originally trained as a social worker and spent much of his early career working in the criminal justice system at both a local and national level. Over his career he has become increasingly interested in how to reset public services so that they move away from what they have increasingly become – transactional, bureaucratic and compliance led systems, so that they can become more agile, relational, entrepreneurial, and local. 

He is now pursuing a portfolio of interests. He is a Non-Executive Director of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, he chairs Catalyst Choices, a Community Interest Company delivering a range of adult social care services in the North West, he also chairs Jobs22, a joint venture between the Australian based Angus Knight Group and Catch22 which delivers employability and skills services, and he is a Non-Executive Director of Big Society Capital.  He continues to represent Catch22 on the board of Capacity – the public services lab which operates across the Liverpool City Region rethinking public services as people services and is a founding director of We are Juno, a new model of children’s residential social care. 

He is also a trustee of The West London Zone. He lives in Nottinghamshire and is a long-term season ticket holder at Nottingham Forest.