Chris trained as a student apprentice with Thorn Electrical Industries and became engineer in charge of the wired television laboratory in 1965.
He joined Teleng Ltd in 1970 where he was appointed laboratory manager and also tested and set up cable TV systems in Belgium and in Canada.
Chris left Teleng and formed Swires Research in 1976. Swires Research closed in 2017 after forty years of designing and manufacturing products for the Cable TV industry.
Chris has lectured regularly on Cable TV subjects and is the author of many technical papers. He is a member of the IBC paper selection committee and the exhibition steering group.
Currently, Chris chairs the SCTE training committee.