Chris Evans
Chris Evans is Managing Director, and a shareholder, of Foreshore Limited which is an international-class, telco-neutral internet and data services business based at The Powerhouse, Queens Road and was created to help facilitate the growth of electronic business in Jersey.
He has been involved in running information technology businesses in Jersey for over twenty years. In 1984 he formed Omicron Computer Systems, Jersey’s first specialist IT networks business. In 1993 the company was merged with another local business specialising in outsourced IT services to create what is now the Itex Group, where he served as deputy chairman. During his time there the company grew to become the largest IT services company in the Channel Islands with subsidiaries in Guernsey and the Isle of Man and employing over 200 staff. This business was sold in 2000, and Foreshore was formed in the same year.
Chris has served as a non-executive director for a number of local companies and is currently on the board of the Jersey Electricity Company. He has had articles published, by specialist international journals, on the dynamics of e-business with an emphasis on the offshore dimension.
He has also participated in a number of States of Jersey committees. He was a member of a sub-group of the Office of the Chief Advisor (chaired by John Christiansen) in 1999 which examined how Jersey could diversify its economic activities through electronic commerce. More recently he was a member of a sub-group of the Economic Development Committee (chaired by the then Deputy Gerald Voisin) called the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Group with a similar economic diversification objective. He is currently a member of the Public Accounts Committee which scrutinises public expenditure in Jersey.