SPOR Group Co-Founders Named in the BusinessCloud Founder 250 — As Covered by IT Brief UK

SPOR Group co-founders Chris Gore and Chris Spence have been named in the BusinessCloud Founder 250, as covered by IT Brief UK.

Chris Gore | Updated 2026

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As featured in IT Brief UK

SPOR Group co-founders Chris Gore and Chris Spence have been named in the BusinessCloud Founder 250 list, recognising entrepreneurs making a significant contribution to the UK innovation economy. IT Brief UK covered the recognition on 5 August 2026.

Read the full IT Brief UK feature here

IT Brief UK, one of the UK's leading technology news platforms for CIOs and IT decision-makers, has covered the inclusion of SPOR Group co-founders Chris Gore and Chris Spence in the BusinessCloud Founder 250 for 2026.

The BusinessCloud Founder 250 is an annual list recognising 250 entrepreneurs judged to be making a significant contribution to the UK's technology and innovation economy. The 2026 list spans sectors including AI, technology, manufacturing, education and health. SPOR Group's inclusion places its founders alongside leaders from companies including Gymshark, Octopus Energy and PerfectTed. Read the full BusinessCloud feature at businesscloud.co.uk.

What IT Brief UK Said

IT Brief UK is a specialist technology news platform serving CIOs and IT decision-makers across the UK, part of the TechDay network of 61 specialist technology media sites across eight global regions. The platform covers enterprise technology, managed services, hybrid working, AI and digital transformation. Its coverage of the SPOR Group Founder 250 recognition highlighted the company's position in workplace technology and the growing demand for reliable meeting room management across large organisations. Read the full article at itbrief.co.uk.

The article noted that SPOR Group now supports more than 1,500 meeting rooms across the UK and Europe, and that the business has built its approach around long-term performance and accountability rather than limiting its role to installation projects.

The Quote That Went With the Announcement

"It's a real privilege to be recognised in BusinessCloud's Founder 250 alongside so many inspiring entrepreneurs driving innovation across the UK. This recognition reflects the incredible team we've built at SPOR Group and our shared commitment to helping organisations get more value from their workplace technology. We're passionate about creating environments where technology simply works, allowing people to focus on doing their best work."

Chris Gore, Co-Founder, SPOR Group.

Why This Recognition Matters

IT Brief UK reaches the CIO and IT Director audience, exactly the decision-makers responsible for the meeting room estates SPOR Group manages. Being covered in a publication that those buyers read is not just recognition. It is visibility in the right place at the right time.

The Founder 250 recognition and the IT Brief UK coverage together signal something important about where SPOR Group sits in the market. Workplace technology is no longer a niche procurement category. It sits at the centre of how organisations manage hybrid working, support distributed teams and protect the productivity of their people. The companies leading in that space are increasingly being recognised alongside businesses from every other sector of the UK innovation economy.

What SPOR Group Actually Does

SPOR Group designs, installs and manages meeting room technology for enterprise organisations across the UK and globally. The business was founded by Chris Gore and Chris Spence in 2019 and has grown to manage over 1,500 meeting room sites across the UK, Europe, Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong.

The core argument behind SPOR Group's approach, and the argument Chris Gore makes in his book Work Isn't Working, is that workplace technology should not be treated as a one-off installation. What happens after deployment is the part most organisations get wrong. Systems are installed, projects are signed off and nobody takes clear responsibility for long-term performance. When technology stops working, productivity suffers, support costs rise and employees lose confidence in the tools they are supposed to rely on.

SPORTrack, SPOR Group's own remote monitoring platform, watches every device in every room in real time across the estates the company manages, catching faults before they affect meetings rather than after. For more on how that works in practice, book a SPORTrack demo here.

This is the second major recognition for SPOR Group in 2026.

Chris Gore has also been named as a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2026, Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, South East of England. The ceremony takes place in November 2026.

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