Chris Hunt vlog: Transcript

Chris Hunt: I'm a Warwick alumni and this place changed my life. It opened up doors for me that I never knew were even there. I made friends for life and I was exposed to new horizons that I didn't think were possible.

I came back to Warwick because I want to pass on that same opportunity to other people. That's what makes this place special. I think it's the people here and it's also the amazing and incredible things that we do at Warwick, if ever on the rare occasions I'm having a tough day, what re-energises me is to get out and about, meet the people on campus, be they staff or students, and see the amazing things that we get up to.

The key responsibilities as a commercial director are to lead and oversee and manage five distinct but really important and connected businesses: Warwick Conferences, the Arts Centre, Sports, Food and Beverage and of course, Warwick Employment Group. Collectively, they really make up an important part of life here at Warwick. They provide an amazing platform for people to engage to participate, to be employed, and to make Warwick a very special destination, to come, to stay, to do well, to learn.

So it's a really important position in that it has a massive impact on people's lives at Warwick.

I'm excited about two things for the Campus and Commercial Services Group. Firstly, it's about getting on now and delivering the strategies that we spent a lot of time designing.

Be that about making sure that Warwick Employment Group is, and continues to be, a sector leader globally for recruitment in higher education or be that about Warwick Arts, to make sure that we truly are open and welcoming for everyone to express their love and show our love of the arts, or to make sure that we put wellness and activity at the heart of everything we do here at Warwick, particularly for our staff and students and our local community. Or making sure that our food and beverage proposition really nourishes the soul, is good for people and the planet, and look out for the new rebrand of our food and beverage group for Eatwise.

Or it could be about making sure that every conference delegate leaves this place feeling fulfilled and inspired and ready to go out into the world and do some amazing things. Secondly, I'm excited about innovation. It's in Warwick's DNA, and it's incumbent upon us in the Campus and Commercial Services Group to make sure that we put innovation at the forefront of what we do as well.

New things and exciting things in our propositions that really appeals to all of our customers.

Warwick is about pointing the way ahead and making the world a better place. It made it that way for me and that's my intent to do that for others as well and pass that on.