Christopher Baker-Brian

Christopher Baker-Brian is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bboxx.

Chris has led Bboxx’s technology strategy, vision and execution for the last 15 years, underpinning the growth of Bboxx into a super platform that has reached >4m people across Africa with essential products and services. Founded in 2010 by Chris and two fellow Imperial College London students, Bboxx has enjoyed fast growth, employing more than 3000 full and part time staff in 15 countries globally.

Chris has diverse expertise across physical and digital product areas, including clean tech product development and manufacturing, scaling cloud infrastructure, building high performing software engineering teams (both remote and on site) and is equally comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders in a range of settings.

Chris is an Imperial College London Graduate. He obtained his Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electronic & Electrical Engineering with 1st class Honours in 2010. While studying at Imperial College London, Chris met our two other co-founders – Mansoor Hamayun and Laurent Van Houcke. Through their experiences travelling, they saw first-hand the challenges that communities and businesses face without access to energy supplies. In response, Chris, along with his two classmates founded a successful student charity, called e.quinox, which initially brought electricity to six villages in Rwanda and continues to operate today.

Chris is a British national residing in London.