The Rise and Rise of Poker

Chris moved around quite a lot as a child, but spent the majority of his formative years in a rural-ish bit of Switzerland just north of the Alps. He was the first kid in his school to have a computer at home and was quite ‘into them’, growing up (when he was 14 he even stole his own bicycle in order to buy a Sinclair Spectrum with the insurance money). This inevitably led to him studying Computer Science and getting a job designing user interfaces for bulletin board systems in the late 80s.

Which in turn inevitably led to him co-founding a web-design company in 1995 and then liquidating it 6 years later when people suddenly decided they didn’t want websites any more. Which in turn led to him getting a degree in the humanities and a masters in international politics.

He now lives in Sheffield with his wife and two boys where he is Innovation Director for Technophobia. Over the years Chris has delivered projects for 4 local authorities, at least 5 banks, a university, several government departments, a whole bunch of multinationals and a purveyor of naive art.