Chris worked within global media businesses for over 18 years’ up to MD level, managing an £8m+ media portfolio across magazines, digital, conferences & events, data, subscriptions and SaaS solutions. His career was built within senior roles at Haymarket Media, Incisive Media and Wilmington plc. Chris’s understanding and expertise within media, particularly the challenges faced by hiring managers to recruit good candidates at all levels, put him in a unique position to visualise how an exceptional recruitment agency should be operating to efficiently fill roles. He launched ZMedia (now part of ZBusiness Ltd) in 2015 and has built the business up to have one of the highest conversion rates in the UK media recruitment industry (CV sent : interview requested).