In 2024, Christopher was appointed as Executive Chair of the Sherborne Schools Group and sits on the Governance & Nominations, Finance and Remuneration Committees.
Christopher is a business leader and entrepreneur. He has experience as both CEO and Chair of quoted and private companies in the education, healthcare, and technology sectors in the US, Europe and emerging economies.
Christopher started his career in the British Army before joining The Boston Consulting Group. After a variety of senior management positions at Baxter International, the US-based healthcare multinational, he was CEO of several fast-growing venture capital backed healthcare businesses before co-founding Iceni Capital LLP in 2004, a venture capital firm focused on providing capital and operational support to entrepreneurial UK companies in the services sector. He was Chair of TQ Education & Training, which he sold to Pearson plc, one of the world's largest education companies and a component of the FTSE-100. Until 2015, he led Pearson's businesses in the ‘emerging’ economies.
Christopher has been a Governor of a small rural primary school as well as the Defence Sixth Form College (Welbeck).
Christopher is also an Old Shirburnian, (a, ‘75) and holds an MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.