Originally from Bath, Chris graduated from Manchester University in 1993 and then spent 4 years working as a Sales Manager for an Industrial Combustion Engineering company in the North of England.

In 1997 he moved to London and joined one of the world's largest engineering recruitment companies. He was rapidly promoted to Associate Director, managing an office of 18 recruiters. During his eight years with them he managed and significantly grew the following divisions: Oil & Gas; Piping, Mechanical & Subsea, Building Services, Civil & Structural and finally Architectural.

In 2004 Chris migrated to South Australia, with his Australian wife. He turned down an opportunity to set up an Australian division with his previous company and instead opted to broaden his horizons joining a different organisation. Chris was charged with developing an engineering division from scratch. At the time of his resignation Chris had successfully built and trained a team of 4 consultants which primarily serviced Adelaide's engineering consultancies.

Chris puts his recruitment success down to listening, understanding and then delivering on what clients and candidates really want. He gains great satisfaction from contributing to the growth of companies and helping candidates to realise both their short and longer term career aspirations. Chris is passionate about building longer term relationships which both understand and facilitate the best interests of all parties; it was the ability to apply this philosophy which provided Chris with the motivation to establish CTC in March 2007.

Chris' vision is to build a highly respected recruitment consultancy that adds genuine value to the industry. It is his dream to have a company which both clients and candidates are happy to be openly associated with irrespective of whether they are actively recruiting or looking to move jobs.

With a young family Chris is an enthusiastic convert to living in Adelaide and he takes every opportunity to promote South Australia.