Christopher Townsend

Chris is a Senior Partner at KPMG and Head of KPMG’s Infrastructure, Government, Defence and Healthcare practice. A key part of his role is the governance and delivery of a wide range of Government projects and contracts supporting the Government and wider public sector. He has extensive expertise at Board Director level bringing together multi-disciplinary teams across the public and private sectors. Over the past 25 years Chris has held a number of CEO and senior commercial and marketing executive roles leading the successful development, delivery and management of major and high-profile projects in broadcast, sports and Government entities including BSkyB, Transport for London, London2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Broadband Delivery UK and Chelsea Football Club.