Chris Tooley

Christopher Donald Michael Tooley (born 19 April 1964) is an English former cricketer and a business executive, formerly the Group CEO of Lycamobile. Tooley was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Bromley, Kent.

Business career
Tooley held senior positions at Lycamobile, a London-based provider of international calling services with operations in several countries. He was described as a "company veteran" when he was appointed as CEO of Lycamobile Group in 2014. He left the role in 2023, and later that year was removed as a director of Lycamobile UK Ltd.

In October 2023, along with other Lycamobile executives, Tooley was sentenced in France to a three-year jail term, suspended, and fined 250,000 euros for complicity in VAT tax fraud and money laundering involving the Lycamobile companies.

Cricket career
Tooley made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Somerset in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he represented the university in 25 first-class matches, the last of which came in the 1987 University Match against Cambridge University; he won Blues for cricket in each of his three years in the team. In his 25 first-class matches, he scored 667 runs at a batting average of 19.61, with 3 half centuries and a high score of 66. In the field he took 9 catches. With the ball he took 2 wickets at a bowling average of 18.50, with best figures of 1/16.

In 1986, it was for a Combined Universities team that he made his debut in List A cricket against Hampshire in the Benson and Hedges Cup. He represented the team in a further 6 List A matches from 1986 to 1987, the last of which came against Middlesex. In his 7 List A matches for the team, he scored 106 runs at an average of 17.66, with a single half century high score of 62, while in the field he took a single catch.

Tooley later represented the Kent Cricket Board in a single List A match against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy.