Chris has 25 years’ leadership experience in businesses providing data-driven insight in regulated industries from Law firms to central / local Government, Law Enforcement, National Security and Financial Services.

Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Xapien, an automated background research platform used by financial institutions, industry regulators, charities and commercial organisations to truly understand their counterparts.

Chris began his career at Detica (now BAE Systems) leading teams delivering fraud, compliance, cyber security and analytics systems into major private and public sector clients. His final role was Managing Director of the Financial Crime division, with 600 staff in 12 countries.

Chris left BAE to spend 2 years as Chief Commercial Officer at CallCredit, the challenger credit reference agency, prior to its acquisition by TransUnion for £1Bn.