Chris has over 20 years' experience working within the property industry and has worked on several mixed-use, town centre schemes as developer, client representative and development manager. His experience ranges from feasibility stage through to detailed planning consent and then taking the schemes through procurement and into detailed design and construction.

Chris has also played key development management roles on the delivery of residential schemes, ranging from super prime to care home facilities.

Chris became Director of aspireDM in 2008, after joining from Lendlease and has worked on a number of large scale projects including development management of a large strategic land property portfolio for Savills Investment Management and the redevelopment of the Commonwealth Institute, Hollandgreen on behalf of Chelsfield, before repositioning the town centre asset and delivery of a new store for John Lewis Partnership on behalf of BlackRock.

With a background in Architecture, Chris began his career at Benoy Architects, working on such high-profile schemes as Bull Ring (Birmingham) and Touchwood (Solihull). Chris then made the move to Westfield and later Lend Lease as a Senior Development Manager, working on large mixed-use town centres schemes.