Chris lives in Berlin and has been attending RIPE Meetings regularly since RIPE 56 in 2008. He is currently the co-chair of the RIPE IPv6 Working Group.
His first contact with IPv6 was in 2004 at the non-profit and volunteer-driven ISP, Individual Network Berlin e.V., where he has been chairman of the board since 2002.
He was a Network Engineer and Team Lead Network for nearly 14 years at STRATO AG and deployed IPv6 in a network for a few million domains and tens of thousands of servers.
Since 2019, Chris is Network Consultant, Information Security Officer and Team Lead Professional Services at system.de GmbH and also supports their subsidiary Route 128 GmbH which is specialised in IPv6.