Chris is a Pharmacist and Non-Executive Advisor at Alliance Healthcare having run two successful independent community pharmacy chains in the West Country and West Wales.
He has a busy portfolio career, including Chairman of Milford Haven Port Authority, Co-Chairman of the Bevan Commission and Chairman of the Life Sciences Hub Wales Ltd. He has recently been appointed as Chair of Pharmacy, delivering a Healthier Wales Delivery Board and a member of the Health and Care Research Wales Advisory Board. He is a Trustee and Director of Marie Curie UK as well as the Chairman of the Wales Advisory Board for Marie Curie and Chair/Trustee of Haverfordwest Swimming Pool Trust. He is also a member of the Queens Award for Enterprise Judging Panel for Sustainable Development.
He was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 2006 for outstanding contribution to the practice of community pharmacy. In 2018, Chris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Swansea University to celebrate his entrepreneurial success along with his distinguished career in the public, private and charitable sector and in 2023 appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed.