Christopher Needler is a businessman, entrepreneur and the former Chairman of Hull City. He was born on 4 September 1944, near Kingston upon Hull, England and attended Repton School in Derbyshire. He spent five years qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CPA) and three additional years as a mature student at Trinity College, Cambridge. Once retired from all his previous businesses, in 2005 he began a debt counselling company called DebtWatchers. He currently lives in Monaco and has a partner and two step children.