Chris Corbishley's guest appearances

Chris Corbishley

Imperial Business Podcast

Dishing Podcast

MinnoTank

Jason Mitchell

Sonja Overhiser

Mark Lewis

Andrew Mitchell

Kate Ahl

Bjork Ostrom

Matt Molen

Laurie Buckle

Andrew Wilder

Brian Jones

Kevin O'Leary

Kate Kordsmeier

Joanie Simon

Sarah Hill

Carrie Forrest

OwlTail

When you pitch a venture firm, the last thing you expect is for them to pitch you a job. But that is what happened to Chris, who now works with tech startups across the United Kingdom. Find more at https://forwardpartners.com/

When you pitch a venture firm, the last thing you expect is for them to pitch you a job. But that is what happened to Chris, who now works with tech startups across the United Kingdom. Find more at <a href="https://forwardpartners.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forwardpartners.com/</a>

Chris Corbishley | Investor | Forward Partners

Husband and wife, Chris and Nicky Corbishley founded popular food blog Kitchen Sanctuary and business blogger resource Living the Blog to share with others their love of food and their success in business. Nicky After Nicky Corbishley took her college degree in computer science, she went straight into the corporate world, where she spent the next 14 years, most recently as a disaster recovery manager in the IT department of a pharma company. During that time, she met Chris (at work), they dated, got married, and had two children. As they advanced in their careers, the Corbishleys found it more and more difficult to juggle their professional responsibilities and spend time together as a family. Nicky also wanted to do something more creative with her life. That opportunity came at the end of 2013, when Nicky took a voluntary layoff package that allowed her to figure out another career without worrying about money for a while. By this time, she had already started tinkering in creative writing and blogging. When she left her job in June 2014, she'd decided she was going to focus her energies on turning Kitchen Sanctuary into a business. Nicky chose to blog about food because it was (and still is!) her passion. She’d been cooking family dinners since the age of 11, and she always found pleasure in cooking and eating. Her kitchen is her sanctuary (hence the blog's name). Cooking and baking were her way to de-stress after a long day. Nicky's first blog earnings came in September 2014 – £25.14 from ad revenue. It took until March 2015 to get her first piece of freelance work ($50 per recipe)! From there, her momentum and income continued to build to the point that, in June 2017, Chris was also able to leave his corporate job and join her. Chris Like Nicky, Chris went straight into IT after college; technical support initially (which Nik has always taken full advantage of for Kitchen Sanctuary!), moving up until his last role as programme manager of a global team. Always a bit of a tech geek, Chris first taught Nik how to use his digital camera for her food, and then, when time allowed, he started doing some photography. When Nik decided to move into food videos, Chris took on the videography and editing. Around this time, Chris was growing restless at work and looking for a new challenge. The demand for video was increasing, and Nik was getting crazy busy (especially after winning the Neff cookaholics competition). She'd been badgering him to come and work with her and it had been fun working on the videos. So, after much discussion and planning, Chris finally took the plunge and left his corporate job. Chris says it's been a huge change for him to go from a senior management role with a global team to self employment. He's still getting used to it, but he loves the many perks, like:  Being able to work in sweatpants Getting to watch you-tube videos and calling it research Playing with cameras Getting the barbecue going on a Tuesday lunchtime, just because Oh, and getting to spend all day with his beautiful wife! 

Husband and wife, Chris and Nicky Corbishley founded popular food blog Kitchen Sanctuary and business blogger resource Living the Blog to share with others their love of food and their success in business. Nicky After Nicky Corbishley took her college degree in computer science, she went straight into the corporate world, where she spent the next 14 years, most recently as a disaster recovery manager in the IT department of a pharma company. During that time, she met Chris (at work), they dated, got married, and had two children. As they advanced in their careers, the Corbishleys found it more and more difficult to juggle their professional responsibilities and spend time together as a family. Nicky also wanted to do something more creative with her life. That opportunity came at the end of 2013, when Nicky took a voluntary layoff package that allowed her to figure out another career without worrying about money for a while. By this time, she had already started tinkering in creative writing and blogging. When she left her job in June 2014, she'd decided she was going to focus her energies on turning Kitchen Sanctuary into a business. Nicky chose to blog about food because it was (and still is!) her passion. She’d been cooking family dinners since the age of 11, and she always found pleasure in cooking and eating. Her kitchen is her sanctuary (hence the blog's name). Cooking and baking were her way to de-stress after a long day. Nicky's first blog earnings came in September 2014 – £25.14 from ad revenue. It took until March 2015 to get her first piece of freelance work ($50 per recipe)! From there, her momentum and income continued to build to the point that, in June 2017, Chris was also able to leave his corporate job and join her. Chris Like Nicky, Chris went straight into IT after college; technical support initially (which Nik has always taken full advantage of for Kitchen Sanctuary!), moving up until his last role as programme manager of a global team. Always a bit of a tech geek, Chris first taught Nik how to use his digital camera for her food, and then, when time allowed, he started doing some photography. When Nik decided to move into food videos, Chris took on the videography and editing. Around this time, Chris was growing restless at work and looking for a new challenge. The demand for video was increasing, and Nik was getting crazy busy (especially after winning the Neff cookaholics competition). She'd been badgering him to come and work with her and it had been fun working on the videos. So, after much discussion and planning, Chris finally took the plunge and left his corporate job. Chris says it's been a huge change for him to go from a senior management role with a global team to self employment. He's still getting used to it, but he loves the many perks, like: <ul> <li>Being able to work in sweatpants</li> <li>Getting to watch you-tube videos and calling it research</li> <li>Playing with cameras</li> <li>Getting the barbecue going on a Tuesday lunchtime, just because</li> <li>Oh, and getting to spend all day with his beautiful wife!</li> </ul>

034: Nicky & Chris Corbishley | Kitchen Sanctuary

Forward Partners is an early stage VC based in London, investing in Applied AI, e-commerce and marketplace startups. Forward Partners recently raised a second £60million fund. Chris Corbishley is currently an investor with Forward Partners, previously founded data science platform growthsquared.io, enabling e-commerce businesses to apply advanced analytics to their data. Before that, as Head of Analytics at Swoon Editions, he championed the "zero stock, zero lead time” model in online furniture retail. He has a PhD in organisational economics from Imperial College London, where he worked with the Grantham Institute to incentivise institutional investment into renewable energy infrastructure. He also worked part-time on the London Stock Exchange ELITE programme, supporting UK scale-ups - including brands such as Skyscanner, graze.com, Vision Direct and MedicAnimal - with the exciting nightmare of rapid growth. He has coached early stage tech entrepreneurs and deep science spinouts from Imperial College, and produced a series of case studies on common startup challenges. This is the first ever episode of the series that is off-campus, Chris was kind enough to invite us in at the Forward Partners office. You can watch this video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/r3P7W0DG6Cg The main website of the podcast is here at http://BusinessPodcast.co

Forward Partners is an early stage VC based in London, investing in Applied AI, e-commerce and marketplace startups. Forward Partners recently raised a second £60million fund. Chris Corbishley is currently an investor with Forward Partners, previously founded data science platform <a href="http://growthsquared.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">growthsquared.io</a>, enabling e-commerce businesses to apply advanced analytics to their data. Before that, as Head of Analytics at Swoon Editions, he championed the "zero stock, zero lead time” model in online furniture retail. He has a PhD in organisational economics from Imperial College London, where he worked with the Grantham Institute to incentivise institutional investment into renewable energy infrastructure. He also worked part-time on the London Stock Exchange ELITE programme, supporting UK scale-ups - including brands such as Skyscanner, <a href="http://graze.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">graze.com</a>, Vision Direct and MedicAnimal - with the exciting nightmare of rapid growth. He has coached early stage tech entrepreneurs and deep science spinouts from Imperial College, and produced a series of case studies on common startup challenges. This is the first ever episode of the series that is off-campus, Chris was kind enough to invite us in at the Forward Partners office. You can watch this video on YouTube here: <a href="https://youtu.be/r3P7W0DG6Cg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/r3P7W0DG6Cg</a> The main website of the podcast is here at <a href="http://BusinessPodcast.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://BusinessPodcast.co</a>

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