In 1996 he co-founded ThreeWeeks, a newspaper covering every aspect of the Edinburgh Festival, while offering students a great media training opportunity. In 1998 he co-founded CMU, with the aim of bringing together everyone working in music across the UK. During this time he also dabbled in theatre production, both at the Edinburgh Fringe and in London's West End, specialising in new plays.

In 2002 he co-founded UnLimited Media, bringing together the ever expanding operations of both ThreeWeeks and CMU, as well as creating a uniquely integrated content, communication and consulting business, providing both creative and communications services and expertise to other brands, companies and marketing agencies.

Since then Chris has helped expand ThreeWeeks to the Brighton Festival, launched daily and weekly bulletins under the CMU banner, and launched two new websites - CreativeStudent.net and ThisWeek in London - as well as leading numerous innovative content, communication and consulting projects for an exciting mix of entertainment, media and consumer brands, and corporate clients.

Many of UnLimited's media and communication projects also involve a training or educational element, and this led to the creation of a separate training division within the UnLimited group, UnLimited Insights. Through this business, Chris develops and delivers training and skills-development programmes about and for the entertainment, media and communication industries, providing beginners guides to students and entry-level practioners, and current trend and best practice insights for more experienced professionals.

When UnLimited forms long-term partnerships with clients or other marketing agencies Chris often takes on an associate role within those partner companies. Chris has performed such a role within partner agencies Making Waves and BigTime, and is currently Pubisher for Unicorn Jobs, the communications recruitment company for whom UnLimited provide content and training services.

Based at UnLimited's HQ in Shoreditch, and in Edinburgh during August, Chris continues to head up the operations and marketing of UnLimited's media, as well as leading content communication and training programmes for UnLimited's clients.

Meanwhile, through his work on CMU, ThreeWeeks and the other UnLimited media, he has become a leading expert on the music, media and PR industries, and the Brighton and Edinburgh festivals, and regularly comments on these things for other media, including Radio 4's Today programme, Radio 5's Wake Up To Money and Drive show, plus the BBC News Channel, CNN and Sky News.

Chris also recently completed a part-time Law degree at London Metropolitan University, where he wrote a indepth paper on protecting music rights in the internet age. He's also thinking about getting round to finishing that book he started on the British constitution, and may be even completing that first murder mystery novel.

Chris blogs at www.stuffbyme.co.uk.