Chris is an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. He is Managing Partner of Outrun Ventures, and one of Europe’s most prolific angel investors in Fintech companies.

After a ten year career at GE Capital, Chris co-founded a specialty finance company, Marlin Financial Group, that became one of the fastest growing businesses in the UK, featuring in the Sunday Time Fast Track 100 for four consecutive years. In 2014, he and his partners sold the business to a NASDAQ listed entity and specialist buy-out fund for $485mm. After exiting he turned his attention to venture investing and mentoring founders, running Techstars London's fintech accelerator for four years, writing 50 first investments into the likes Cuvva, Seldon, Cutover, Bokio, Post Quantum and Everledger – all of whom went on to be valued above 9 figures.

Chris has also invested personally, as a first cheque investor, into a further 175 fintech companies, many of them now notable, including Griffin Bank, Kuda Bank, Quant Network, Marshmallow Insurance, Smart Pension, and Atom Bank. He was named the UK’s Angel investor of the year in 2018/19 and Sifted named him the most active fintech angel in Europe from 2020-23. In 2022 he was named as the leading Seed Investor in Europe by Business Insider and Tribe Capital and in 2023 was named the Investor of the year in the Great British Entrepreneurship Awards.  Although primarily an angel investor, Chris formed Outrun Ventures to facilitate investment into the growth stage round of some of his most exciting growth stage portfolio companies.