Chris has played an active role in the technology industry for almost 20 years, and prior to joining RM, was Director of Education for multinational technology company, Microsoft. Here, he was responsible for supporting over 30,000 of Microsoft's Education customers in the UK, across schools, colleges, universities, museums and libraries. He is a school governor, a trustee of an edtech charity, and as a parent of two young children has a vested interest in helping the industry improve educational outcomes for all. In the 1980s RM and its rival Acorn Computers sold thousands of computers to schools in the UK as part of the government's Microelectronics Education Programme. A key model of the time was RM's Z80-based RML 380Z. RM introduced its AX model in 1986, using the Intel 80286 processor. A common use for the AX was as a fileserver, connected to PC-186 clients using MS-Net, Microsoft's network operating system of the time and Z-Net hardware (later optionally via Ethernet). Usually the PC-186 clients were diskless, booting via the network. Diskless client computers that loaded their operating system, applications and user data centrally from fileservers were common in UK education for a further decade, partially to avoid the cost of local storage devices such as hard disks, but also to protect system files, as the client Operating Systems MS-DOS and Windows did not offer access control at the file system level until Windows XP introduced support for NTFS. Gordon, Jamie. "RM share price and profits up following Consortium acquisition". UK Investor Magazine . Retrieved 4 July 2018.

Cuts in the budgets of UK educational establishments in 2011 damaged RM's revenues, leading it to shed hundreds of employees and sell less profitable parts of its business. [17] [18] At Microsoft, Chris managed the UK education industry team, working to deliver on the vision of empowering every student and educator to achieve more by helping them make the most of the technology available to improve learning outcomes. This included helping customers use this technology to transform their organisation, enable richer teaching and learning and supporting the development of 21st Century skills for students and staff. Chris brings knowledge and experience of working with customers and partners across every phase of Education.Oates, John. "RM buys catalogue firm". The Register. Situation Publishing Limited . Retrieved 4 December 2015.

The Key Group is a collection of mission-driven brands who believe that positive change happens in schools where education leaders are empowered to take meaningful action. Supporting 19,000 schools across the UK, each of their for brands work to bring that belief to life in different ways: The KeyRichard is responsible for managing RM’s existing customer propositions and developing new ones in the fields of e-assessment, school MIS, safeguarding and managed IT services. Working closely with schools, government ministries, examination boards and professional awarding bodies, Richard is seeking to stay one step ahead of what they may need. With the arrival of microprocessors in the mid-1970s, the company expanded into the design and manufacturing of microcomputers. The company shipped its first computer in 1977 [5] to a customer in a Local Education Authority and has been involved with educational computing ever since. RM’s ideal date: “It’s like the ordinary college student date. We can see a movie together, eating together, walking together. I want to have love like that. It’s because i can’t at all. (Laugh)”

RM Resources is the established provider of education resources for early years, primary schools, and secondary schools across the UK and to 80 countries internationally.

Mike Fischer was Chief Executive of the Group until 1997. He was succeeded by Richard Girling (1997–2002), Tim Pearson (2002–08), Terry Sweeney (2008 [9]–11), Rob Sirs (2011 [10]–12 [11]), Martyn Ratcliffe (2011–13 [12]) and David Brooks (2013 [13]–21 [14]). RM was part of the advisory board that helped the DfE decide on the standards and provides school broadband connections that meet them.