Chris is executive committee member for Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at the Hong Kong Call Centre Association.
Most recently, Chris held the position as Director of Customer Contact Centres for Shangri-la Hotels and Resorts, overseeing regional call centre and CRM operations in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. He held several senior management call centre roles with Shangri-La from 2001-2008, and prior to that managed a conferencing call centre for Worldcom in Hong Kong.
Australian born, Chris worked for QANTAS Airways in their Brisbane call centre from 1994-2000. There he was involved in projects ranging across all facets of call centre operations including stints in Sydney and Hobart.
He has built contact centres, run the daily operations, consolidated and centralized them, and turned cost into profit centres. Chris is certified as a COPC-2000 Standard registered coordinator.
He is Chairman of the sustainable development committee at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and formerly sat on the corporate social responsibility committee for Shangri-La.
Under Chris' direction, Shangri-La won various call centre awards in both Hong Kong and Malaysia , and participated in regional competitions.
He has authored a white paper on corporate social responsibility in the contact centre industry entitled “answering the call for corporate social responsibility.” |