Chris is a restaurateur, Chair of Leukaemia UK and co-founder of the event, Who’s cooking dinner? which brings together the hospitality community and raises vital funds to stop leukaemia devastating lives.

Along with partner Jeremy King, Chris restored and renovated the grade II listed building situated next to the Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly, transforming it into one of London’s most iconic and upscale restaurants, the Wolseley- which he credits as one of his greatest achievements. For forty years, the duo have transformed other well-known restaurants, including The Ivy and Le Caprice into hugely in-demand eateries.

Chris studied for a Certificate of Higher Education in History of Art at Birkbeck in 2010 and speaks of restaurants as vehicles of self-expression: “There’s a certain art in what we do as restaurateurs…Artwork in a restaurant really feeds a person’s senses and contributes to the experience.”