Chris Malyon

Chris Malyon (full name Christopher Malyon, born February 1959, British) is a public-sector finance executive best known for his long tenure as Chief Finance Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire County Council. In that role he acted as the council's statutory Section 151 officer, the legally designated official responsible for the proper administration of the authority's financial affairs. He appears in council finance records in this capacity across the mid-2010s, including a September 2016 financial report to the Greater Cambridge City Deal Executive Board, and continued as a senior member of the corporate leadership team into the early 2020s.

A publicly available LinkedIn profile bearing the same name and matching credentials describes a CIPFA-qualified finance professional with roughly 30 years of local-government experience and about 14 years of Section 151 experience, and lists prior roles associated with the London Borough of Barnet and Capita Business Services, with a more recent role as Assistant Director of Commercial Services at Barnet. There is some ambiguity in the sources as to whether every "Chris Malyon" reference (some list a Southampton base) is the same individual, so this career-progression detail should be treated as probable rather than confirmed.

The most notable episode of his career concerns This Land Limited, Cambridgeshire County Council's arms-length property-development company (registered address Compass House, Vision Park, Histon, Cambridge). Companies House records show Malyon served as a director of This Land from 17 June 2016 until his resignation on 9 July 2020. He later told the council's commercial investment committee that he stepped back after "candid" external legal advice that, in his statutory role as Section 151 officer, he risked being conflicted by simultaneously sitting on the company's board. This Land — and the council's roughly £100m of lending/borrowing tied to it — was the subject of considerable local-press scrutiny.

By late 2022, Cambridgeshire County Council had a new senior finance line-up (Tom Kelly is referenced as Director of Resources and Chief Finance Officer), indicating that Malyon had by then left the CFO post.

• This is not a private-capital investor. No evidence supports an angel-investing thesis, personal check sizes, or a seed-stage focus. Any "investment" framing derives from his statutory oversight of council finances and his board seat on a council-owned property company.
• As Section 151 officer, his professional "thesis" was fiduciary: safeguarding the proper administration of public money, ensuring value-for-money, and managing financial risk on behalf of Cambridgeshire's residents.
• His documented commercial exposure was to local-authority-led property development and housing (via This Land Limited) rather than technology start-ups or venture-stage companies.
• He publicly flagged conflict-of-interest and governance risk as reasons to withdraw from the This Land board — a stance consistent with a risk-conscious public-finance mindset rather than a deal-chasing investor one.