Meet Chris Marsh
Meet Chris — The Business Development Specialist Connecting Ambitious Businesses for Growth
Chris Marsh has spent more than 26 years helping businesses across Manchester’s digital, technology, and creative sectors unlock new opportunities through meaningful relationships. With a career dedicated to new business sales and commercial growth, Chris has built a reputation for connecting ambitious companies with the people, partnerships, and opportunities that help them succeed.
At the heart of Chris’s work is a simple belief: business is built on relationships. While products, services, and technology continue to evolve, genuine human connections remain the foundation of sustainable growth. His mission is to help ambitious businesses build meaningful relationships that create long-term opportunities and lasting success.
Throughout his career, Chris has worked alongside companies at every stage of their journey, supporting them as they expand their networks, strengthen their commercial strategies, and grow within highly competitive industries. His extensive experience across Manchester’s thriving digital, tech, and creative communities has given him a deep understanding of how collaboration, trust, and consistency drive business development.
Chris believes that successful sales are never about simply closing deals, they are about understanding people, recognising opportunities, and creating partnerships that deliver value for everyone involved. His positive approach and natural ability to connect people have made relationship-building the defining characteristic of his career.
Inspired by entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses from the ground up, Chris has enormous respect for those who take risks, overcome challenges, and create something meaningful from nothing. He admires resilience, determination, and the willingness to keep moving forward, qualities that continue to shape his own approach to business.
But Chris’s work extends beyond generating commercial opportunities. He is passionate about supporting the wider business community by helping organisations build stronger networks, develop trusted partnerships, and create sustainable growth through collaboration rather than competition.
His mindset is simple but powerful: meaningful relationships create meaningful opportunities.
Three Words To Describe Chris: Positive. Enthusiastic. Confident.
Chris joins The Legacy Bench ready to connect with ambitious founders, business leaders, and entrepreneurs, share decades of commercial experience, and inspire others to grow their businesses through authentic relationships and genuine collaboration.
