Chris is the founder of Evergreen Strategy Partners - a management consultancy advising clients in the mobile and IoT industry. Working with client, GCF, he advises on the operational and strategic development of GCF’s Certification Programme working with GCF’s members and partner organizations to define and maintain GCF’s Certification Criteria.  He also advises on how to identify and deal with changes in the market that impact the demand for GCF Certified devices.  

Prior to setting up Evergreen, Chris was a standards manager in Nortel actively negotiating standards for IMS and VoLTE in a wide range of international groups including ITU-T, ETSI and 3GPP.  

Chris is also member of the London based Dot Matrix Group Investment Syndicate where he regularly reviews UK tech start-up business plans and questions Boards on their strategic priorities.

Chris holds an MBA from Imperial College, London (2014) and he is a Professional Engineer (UK CEng) with a Masters degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from University of Strathclyde (2000).