Chris Adams

Chris Adams has six years of professional work experience. From 2011 to 2014, they worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company. During this time, they supported a team of senior trading directors to develop criteria, processes and tools to avoid running duplicative or poorly-performing promotions, returning more than £50 million p.a. run-rate profit. In 2014, they also worked as Manager of Global Strategy and Corporate Development at IHG Hotels & Resorts. From 2015 to 2017, they worked as Brand Research Manager at Credit Suisse and Principal Consultant at Hylia. At Hylia, they helped clients across sectors with their most pressing strategic and commercial issues, typically as a principal consultant or programme manager. Chris also directed six teams totalling 25 consultants and advisors to support transformation of services and improvements in population health. In 2017, they became the CEO and Co-Founder of OTHERWORLD, a virtual reality paradise in the cloud.

Chris Adams attended the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2011, where they earned a Literae Humaniores BA (Hons.) in Classical literature, history, art, and philosophy; modern ethics and political theory. Prior to that, they attended Richmond School from 2000 to 2007, where they studied A-level Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and Latin.