Career
Public service for Parliament, City of London & pro-bono activity
He is a Freeman of the City of London. And serves as Court Assistant and Chairman of the Education & Training Committee, and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the 100th Livery Company of the City of London which received a Royal Charter in June 2010. In addition to his business activities, Chris’s pro bono activities include providing guidance, consultancy and online services to charities and voluntary sector bodies.
His pro-bono work has included projects for World Autism Awareness Day, the Royal Corps of Signals, Autistica, United Kingdom disability charity Radar Citizens Advice, the Parliamentary All Party Group on Autism, e-Skills United Kingdom, Information Technology 4 Communities, National Autistic Society & others
Living in Teddington, to the South-West of London, Chris has been a Governor at Lilian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth, Trustee at The Vision Charity, has served in the Territorial Army (United Kingdom), and served as a board director at the Association of Business Communicators. Business career
The first decade of his career was spent running traditional media portfolios starting in 1986 at Centaur Media plc, followed by seven years at Emap Business Communications where he became a publishing director
Internet ventures and interactive television were the theme for the second decade of Histed’s career, and in 1997 he moved to become head of Aspen Interactive (part of Aspen Group plc) and was responsible for major interactive projects including e-Ticketing for GNER. Then, Chris became general manager of Sky Interactive Production at British Sky Broadcasting, with Pty Ltd responsibility for Sky"s web businesses, directing the teams which developed SkySports Active and SkyNews Active, the world"s first interactive television services. Following a period as Vice President at FT.com he was appointed Director of strategy & United Kingdom General Manager at Silicon Media Group (Siliconcom) which was sold to National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation-listed Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications Networks (now part of Columbia Broadcasting System) in 2002.
Next, as Chief Operating Officer, he assisted the sale of Parliamentary Communications Limited to Huveaux Public Limited Company.
In 2003 he founded Public Technology Limited and as Chief Executive Officer launched the Public Technology online information network (10 separate content driven online information including PublicTechnologynet).
In 2004 he founded and then ran the e-Government National Awards, the United Kingdom"s public sector annual technology competition. This has been supported since inception by Cabinet Office Ministers, the United Kingdom’s Government Chief Information Officer, and has had Prime Ministerial input from Number 10 Downing Street and support from David Cameron, Gordon Brown & Tony Blair. In 2009 he sold Public Technology Limited to Sift Media Limited, and remains a non-executive & advisor to the business.