Chris Chaplow
Managing Director

Chris Chaplow was awarded an honours degree in Civil Engineering at Kingıs College, London and worked in management on a number of major construction projects including the Watford Grandstand, the Twickenham South Grandstand and the Stavely bypass. He then worked on several infrastructure projects in Gibraltar and finally the Safeway Superstore, before his interest in Andalucia, photography and computers led him to Spain.

This commenced with the Andalucia Slide Library which began as the creation of a digitised database of Andalucian images and the perfecting of techniques for their transmission to the worldwide media via telephone. The internet became the obvious means by which to continue this work and resulted in the internet business founded with Chris Mason in Kingston upon Thames in London in 1996 which evolved into what is now Andalucia.com.

Andalucia.com is the market leader in its field and Chris´s business philosophy as the Managing director for the last ten years, has always been first and foremost to be adaptable to change, to promote integrity, fairness, honesty and trust towards employees, clients and business partners.

A longtime member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain (BCCS), Chris Chaplow was elected to the Governing Council in 2008 and was subsequently appointed BCCS Secretary.

Chris is also a member of the Commercial and Business Users Constituency (www.bizconst.org) of ICANN (www.icann.org) and was representative on the Communications and Coordination Work Team whose goal amongst other tasks is to develop new GNSO Website requirements. His a member of the "Inter register Transfer Policy" working group which review the policy on domain transfers and is Chair of the 'Comercial Stakeholders Working Group on ICANN Budget and the Operating Plan'.

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