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Interests: Sport & travelling.

 

Interests: Sport & travelling Biography: Chris is a qualified Chartered Accountant with an Economics degree from Sheffield University. Prior to joining Rapier he was Deputy Finance Director at Leo Burnett Group and headed the commercial integration of Leo Burnett with Arc & lime. Previously (and rather uniquely) he worked on the client-side in a marketing role - managing PimmÕs & launching Captain MorganÕs Spiced Rum whilst at Diageo in Australia. He has also worked in interactive TV when Commercial Manager of the channel PlayJam whilst at Static 2358.

 

Achievements: Was commercial lead for the growth and eventual sale of Static 2358 to Open TV post the collapse of the dot.com boom. Not being discovered as a finance guy in disguise whilst working in marketing!