About us

Founder and creative director:

Chris Shirley MA FRGS

Chris is the founder and creative director of Haus of Hiatus, the lead on ‘Tales of Adventure’, and is excited to be exploring the world!

 

Studying graphic design at Plymouth University in 2001, Chris is a former Royal Marines Commando officer, who has notably worked for the BBC in their London HQ, on complex media productions in remote, challenging, and difficult places. He has also worked directly with multinational tech companies (such as Google), international news channels (such as ITN’s Channel 4 and ITV), and recently worked with Sir Elton John on his final world tour.

 

Throughout his lifetime, he’s travelled to over 60 countries on 6 different continents, spent months in the jungle, desert, mountainous and maritime environments. He’s a Guinness world record holder (for rowing over 3500 miles on the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to South America), is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), has a Master’s degree in Business Management (MA), has completed the infamous Marathon des Sables, multiple Ironman triathlons and now has his sights set on completing the Silk Road Mountain race in the coming years.