Putting a face to the name.

Chris has spent most of his time avoiding a ‘proper’ job. With an events-related background in theatre and venue management, and a passion for event organising first realised at University, Chris turned a fun hobby into a career and into a company. In 2000 when the world was going dotcom crazy he founded Brand Events, with a mission simply to create great days out for his family and friends.   Equally important was inventing an environment where it didn’t feel like work!  From the early days when he operated from the cramped HQ in his spare room at home, Brand Events has now grown into a global business which employs 150 people in eight countries.

Nowadays Chris is often travelling overseas, expanding the Brand Events empire through the hugely successful event formulas such as Taste Festivals and Top Gear Live; whilst all the time, planning new shows to launch and meeting new talent and partners to share in the exciting journey.

Delighting in breaking the normal office routine, some of Chris’s ‘livelier’ moments in the office have included sellotaping ‘boring’ staff to their chairs, celebrating the new office in Earls Court with an impromptu aerobics display (move over David Brent) and descending on an awaiting conference audience from a trapeze.  Reinforcing the company values of JFDI (just f***ing do it!), being funny,  winning, honest and up for each other, Chris has instilled a spirit of ambition, achievement and passion amongst the Brand Events teams.    
     
When he’s not globe-trotting Chris is to be found at his riverside home in Marlow surrounded by his family; wife Lynda, daughters Jessica, Emma and Natalie and latest addition to the brood and toddling Coventry City fan, Thomas.