Chris co-founded Oakley Advisory and Oakley Capital Corporate Finance. Chris worked at Investec Investment Banking for 10 years, as head of Telecoms Media and Technology in Corporate Finance where he led numerous M&A deals and IPOs and prior to this as head of Telecoms equity research. Previously Chris was a financial journalist for 10 years, latterly as Business Correspondent for the Independent Newspaper and beforehand with BBC News covering business and economics for radio and TV.