Chris Davenport
CEO at Great British Beverages Ltd
Wootton Courtenay, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Davenport is a veteran CEO and entrepreneur with 14 years of formal experience leading consumer goods ventures and over four decades of commercial experience across FMCG, property development, and sales. He currently heads Great British Beverages, the UK exclusive distributor for branded children’s drinks and snacks, combining product innovation with international supply knowledge. Prior roles include launching export-focused beverage lines and running CMD International, giving him proven strengths in market entry, distribution and global sales. He also contributes to open-source software, fixing backend issues in the well-known Joomla CMS, evidence of hands-on technical problem-solving beyond his executive remit. Based in Somerset, Chris blends operational leadership with grassroots sales instincts—from estate agency startups to niche performance car retail—bringing practical commercial grit to brand growth and distribution strategy.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
content-management10
joomla10
debug9
page-builder7
mysql7
site-builder7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Aug 2013 - Apr 2020
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 42 PRs, 356 comments in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor enhancements within the Joomla CMS backend. Their work focused on addressing issues in Smart Search, resolving PHP notices, and improving code related to the system and admin components. Key contributions include fixing indexing problems, correcting code, and improving the functionality of the CMS. The user also worked on updates related to Smart Search and fixing PHP notices.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
chrisdavenport/webservices
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:37 pushes in 6 months
working-groupwebservices
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