Chris Gallacher is the Cabinet Member for Growth and Enterprise at RCBC. Chris started his working life at ICI and worked in many roles in engineering in the Petro-Chemical industries for a large portion of his civilian life, ending up running his own CAD and E commerce solutions business. Concurrent with this, Chris was involved actively with the Army, both Regular and Reserve, for forty two years.

Chris was born and raised in Middlesbrough but has spent time abroad working. He has a keen interest in the area and loves to spent time on Redcar wide open beaches in all weathers. Like many of his generation, Chris remembers many happy days on crowded Redcar beaches and looks forward to seeing those crowds return.