Our Board

David has held senior positions in the television and sports industries during a 45-year career as a media executive,
business leader and corporate advisor. David negotiated a succession of multi-billion pound TV rights deals on behalf of major sporting bodies, including the Premier League and the English Football League. David has also advised UEFA, The Scottish Premier League, Six Nations, Premier Rugby and the NFL. Most recently he sold the broadcast rights on behalf of 
the Women's Super League.
 
David is a former managing director of Reuters Television, and an ex-CEO of the Magnum photo agency. David has co-founded both Reel Enterprises and the Women’s Sports Group. David is currently an advisor to the New York Times
Group and CNN on their commercial, digital and AI strategies. Among his public boards David was a non-executive director at Channel 4, a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Services board from 2007-14 and Chair of Westminster Kingsway Corporation. David is the author of three books.

Richard is a former partner at EY’s financial risk and regulation practice, advising regulators on Government’s growth objective and financial services clients on regulatory implementation. At the Financial Conduct Authority, he held senior strategy, policy and supervisory roles, leading on market-wide analysis, Brexit implementation and design of new financial regimes for investment firms. He also created the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime. 

In 2022, Richard was seconded into DCMS to design the financial regime which underpins the Football Governance Act.

Simon Levine has been a practising lawyer in the City of London for over 35 years providing litigation and regulatory advice across a range of sectors including technology, media and sport. Until late 2024, Simon was for a decade the managing partner and co-global chief executive officer of a global law firm. He now acts as a strategic consultant to businesses in the technology, legal and professional services sectors. Since 2018 Simon has sat on the board of the regulator for higher education in England, the Office for Students. He has also been a member of advisory boards of the Zoological Society of London, City UK, the International Development Business Exchange, and the Lord Mayor of London, and is an Ambassador for His Majesty King Charles' III’s Sustainable Markets Initiative.

Dame Helen Stephenson is a Non-Executive Director and former Chief Executive of the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The Commission is a non-ministerial government department which employs around 400 staff and is responsible regulating over 169,000 charities. She joined the Commission from the Department for Education where she was Director of Early Years and Child Care. Helen previously worked in the Cabinet Office where she was Director of the Office for Civil Society and Government Innovation Group.  

Helen joined the Civil Service from the Big Lottery Fund where she was Head of Strategic Policy and Partnerships. She has worked for a large national charity as a development manager and as a researcher and consultant in the statutory and voluntary sector. Helen has a PhD from Bristol University.  

Helen is a Non-Executive Board member of the National Lottery Community Fund and Chair of the People Committee. She is a Board member of the ECB Regulatory Board and on the People and Governance Committee at the Royal Academy of Dance. Helen is a Non-Executive Director for North West London Acute Provider Collaborative. Helen is a trustee of The King’s Foundation.

Helen was awarded the CBE in 2014 and was awarded a DBE in the Birthday Honours list 2024 for services to charity and regulation.

Mark McCafferty is the Chair of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Chair of the England and Wales Cricket Boards Professional Game Committee. He has previously been a Non-Executive Director at Umbro plc and the Tote, and his current roles include Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at European Professional Club Rugby, a Board Director at ZigUp plc and a Trustee of the Wooden Spoon children’s charity.

Mark has a background in international banking and finance with Midland Bank Group, including appointments in Europe and North America. From there, he moved into the travel industry as a Managing Director with Thomas Cook Group and in 1998 became CEO of Avis Europe, a listed company. In 2005, he was appointed CEO of Premiership Rugby, the League organisation for England’s top clubs, where he spent 14 years building a business which attracted substantial investment from CVC Capital Partners in 2019.

Kevin Miles is the Chief Executive of the Football Supporters' Association (FSA) and has worked for the FSA and its predecessor organisations since 1998. He began as an international co-ordinator, and for over twenty years delivered the fans’ embassy service in support of fans of the England national team at matches and tournaments around the world. Kevin was appointed Chief Executive in 2012 and from 2008 to 2024 was a member of the board of Football Supporters Europe, the pan-European representative supporters’ organisation. He served as a member of the government’s Expert Working Group on football supporter ownership and engagement from 2014 to 2016, and in 2021 was appointed as a panel member of the Fan-Led Review into Football Governance. 

Kevin was a founder member, and for 19 years Chair, of the anti-racism education charity Show Racism the Red Card, and since 2019 has been a trustee of football’s anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out. Kevin is Chairman of Blyth Spartans AFC, currently competing in the eighth tier of English football, and is a season ticket holder at Newcastle United. 

In June 2024 Kevin was awarded the OBE for his services to football. 

Justine Roberts CBE is the Founder and Executive Chair of Mumsnet, one of the UK’s leading online communities, reaching around seven million monthly users. Mumsnet combines practical advice and peer support with influential public campaigns, including on children’s use of social media, maternal health and miscarriage care. 

In 2011, she launched Gransnet, a sister site for the original baby-boomer generation. 

Alongside her executive career, Justine has held a number of senior board roles. She served as Senior Independent Director at Admiral Group and as a Non-Executive Director of the Open Data Institute and the English Football League. 

Mumsnet has won Online Comment Site of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, and Justine has been named Institute of Internal Communication Communicator of the Year and EY Entrepreneur of the Year London and South. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the economy. 

Before founding Mumsnet, Justine wrote about football and cricket for The Daily Telegraph and The Times, and earlier worked as an economist and strategist at SG Warburg. She read PPE at New College, Oxford. 

Tara Warren has 17 years’ experience guiding transformation in elite sport, spanning commercial strategy, operations, governance, and regulatory compliance, while driving value growth. During her time as Executive Director at West Ham United, she played a key role in the Club’s successful bid to occupy the former Olympic Stadium and the stadium transition that followed, overseeing a period of significant expansion and change. More recently, as the lead Executive for West Ham United Women she spearheaded the club’s long-term development strategy. 

Tara has served on numerous Premier League and Women’s Super League Board subcommittees and was part of the CEO Working Group that advised on the formation of ‘NewCo’ to manage the top-flights of women's club football in England, now WSL football. She began her career at Morgan Stanley and has held senior commercial positions with organisations including IAACG and Savills. 

Tara is a Non-Executive director at the British Horse Racing Authority, leading the development of industry strategy during a period of during a pivotal era of transformation for the sport.  

Tara earned an Executive MBA from Loughborough and is a Chartered Manager and Marketer. 

Dr Linda Yueh CBE is an economist and lawyer, and an experienced Chair, board director and policy adviser. She is Chair of The Schiehallion Fund, a London Stock Exchange-listed investment company, a Non-Executive Director of FTSE 100 companies including Standard Chartered, and was Senior Independent Director of a FTSE 250 investment trust. 

Dr Yueh is Chair-designate of The Royal Parks and serves on senior cross-government advisory bodies, including the English Law Promotion Panel and the Soft Power Council, which encompasses legal services, culture and sport. She was previously Adviser to the Board of Trade, a member of HM Treasury’s Independent Review Panel for the statutory review of the Banking Act 2013, and Board Member of London Partners, including during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

She is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. Earlier in her career, she was Chief Business Correspondent at the BBC, examining the commercial and financial dynamics of professional sport, including football. 

Dr Yueh was appointed CBE for services to economics.