24 Facts About Chris Gilbey

Chris Gilbey was born at Whittington Hospital in North London.

Chris Gilbey attended Tollington Boys High School in Muswell Hill and subsequently The South African College School in Cape Town, South Africa.

Chris Gilbey dropped out of university and became a computer programmer for a period.

Chris Gilbey studied engineering at the University of Cape Town before returning to the UK to pursue a career in the music industry.

Chris Gilbey co-wrote several singles by the band including its first single, "Strange Girl", which was a Melody Maker "record of the week".

Chris Gilbey designed a number of Hobbit-inspired clothes, which were sold in Carnaby Street.

In 1979, Chris Gilbey returned to Australia to become managing director of ATV Northern Songs.

Chris Gilbey signed a number of artists in Australia and helped a number of songwriters who had moved overseas including Steve Kipner.

Chris Gilbey established a joint venture with EMI Records reactivating the Parlophone label as the imprint for the records that he produced.

Chris Gilbey produced the band's first hit single, "The Unguarded Moment", and debut album, Of Skins and Heart.

Chris Gilbey left ATV Northern Songs at the time that the company was acquired by Robert Holmes a Court, and established a venture with MCA Music.

Subsequent to this, Chris Gilbey became the Senior Executive VP of BMG Records in Australia, and led the development of one of the first transactional music web sites as well as the development of the enhanced CD.

Chris Gilbey became the founding chairman of the Golden Stave Foundation.

Chris Gilbey received the Order of Australia Medal in 1992 for his contribution to the music industry and charity.

In 2001 was Chris Gilbey appointed to the post of CEO of Lake Technology, an ASX-listed company with a focus on Digital Signal Processing.

Chris Gilbey led the company until its sale through a friendly takeover to Dolby Laboratories in 2005.

In 2009, Chris Gilbey began serving as a consultant to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science based at the University of Wollongong to help develop a strategy to commercialise some of the centre's intellectual property in energy capture and conversion and medial bionics using electromaterials, 3D printing and nanotechnology.

Chris Gilbey established a research project that involves science PhD candidates interviewing CEOs of companies to develop an understanding of the skills that PhD graduates need to transition into industry.

Chris Gilbey became Entrepreneur In Residence at ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science where he developed spin-out opportunities for the center's scientific research.

Chris Gilbey produced AdBioFab, consisting of three conferences a year bringing together industry, research and government to explore themes in 3D printing and medical bionics.

Chris Gilbey was an executive director in a bio banking start up company, Cytentia.

In 2014, Chris Gilbey co-founded Imagine Intelligent Materials Limited and acquired a family of patents related to methodologies for producing graphene from the University of Wollongong emanating from the research of Professor Gordon Wallace and Professor Dan Li.

Chris Gilbey is Executive Chairman and CEO of Imagine Intelligent Materials Ltd.

In 2018, Chris Gilbey co-founded the Australian Graphene Industry Association and remains its chairman.