Chris was married to Mairi Welman, another employee who served as the Director of Communications. Welman is a renowned software guru who has had vast experience working in CGI and computer technology; spanning various businesses throughout the public and private sector. He started his career in the animation industry on October 1993 as the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Mainframe Entertainment Inc., when they originally had just six staff members, including those from "The Hub". Chris wrote programming code, modeled, animated, ran cables, contributed to ReBoot episode scripts, set up a mocap studio and brought in IPO investors. He worked with various creative people until eventually the studio grew into a large company employing over 300 people. Once Mainframe ceased to be a