Company Secretary:

Michael Jayson is a Partner of Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP, where he is the Head of assurance services in the North West. He has played leading roles in working on transactions and providing consultancy and assurance services to a variety of mutual and membership led organisations including co-operatives, building societies and industrial & provident societies. He is therefore familiar with the differing requirements and challenges that financing and governance can pose for this diverse range of entities. He is a lifelong Liverpool fan.

Other Board members:

John Aldridge is a former Liverpool player and currently a broadcaster, commentator & columnist at the Liverpool Echo.

Barrie Baxter, CEO, Brixx Solutions, is a lifelong Reds fan. He has been General Manager, Director and VP at IBM, Compaq, Fujitsu and Dell. Currently, Barrie owns and runs a software company Brixx Group which produces Business Modeling Applications. Many Premiership/Championship clubs use the Brixx software for their business modeling, including Liverpool Football Club.

Liz Crolley has been a season ticket holder on the Kop for over 25 years. In 1992, as a leading member of the local branch of the Football Supporters Association (and with fluent Italian), she represented Liverpool fans in liaison with the local authorities in Genoa, in the days leading up to LFC's first game back in Italy since the Heysel Disaster. Liz currently works at the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool where she teaches part of the Football MBA programme, and (fluent also in Spanish) she has a good understanding of how football clubs are organised abroad, especially in Spain where democratically-structured football clubs are not unusual. She is co-author of several books on football.

Peter Furmedge has been a Kop Season Ticket holder since 1981/82. He was a founder member of Liverpool Supporters Union (now Spirit of Shankly). Peter is a Qualified accountant (ACCA), and currently works as Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Network on Merseyside.

Martin McEwan has a distinguished marketing background in industry, charitable, political and public sectors at strategic level, including global marketing strategy, research, segmentation, comprehensive branding and other marketing communications. Martin now runs an international marketing consultancy, McEwan Hackett International Marketing. He's been a Red for over 30 years.

Chris Talavera is an LFC fan and season ticket holder for many years. Chris is a retired chartered accountant, having spent his professional career in public practice. He was a senior partner in accountants and business advisors PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Isle of Man. During his career Chris specialised in the audit of offshore banking and insurance companies and corporate recovery. He now acts as Non Executive Chairman of the International Trust and Corporate service provider "Abacus" based in the Isle of Man.

Rogan Taylor, Kop season ticket holder and LFC fan for over forty years; founder member and Chair of the Football Supporters Association, launched in Liverpool after the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985. Rogan is currently the Director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool where he pioneered the world's first MBA programme which specialises in football business.

Steering Group Members:

Nicky Allt is a well known Liverpool author/playwright ('Here we go gathering cups in May', 'Brick up the Mersey Tunnels') and a lifelong Reds fan. He was a leading figure and founder member in the emergence of the Liverpool Supporters Union (now the Spirit of Shankly movement).

Bernard O'Byrne is the ShareLiverpoolFC National Co-ordinator for Ireland. Following a senior business career spanning over 25years with Coca-Cola, Nestle and CRH Plc he became C.E.O. of the Football Association of Ireland in 1996 and served for five years, during which time he also served on various U.E.F.A. committees. A Liverpool fan for over 40 years he is presently C.E.O. of The Mansfield Group which incorporates Hotels, Golf Courses, construction activity and a private Airport in Ireland.

Keith Featherstone, a Liverpudlian and lifelong Liverpool fan, is one of the senior partners in the London Office of the International law firm Fried Frank. He is the head of Fried Frank's European tax practice and has over 20 years experience in the City advising leading multinational companies, investment banks, investment funds and private equity houses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, structuring investments, corporate restructuring, the capital markets and all other forms of financing arrangements.

Kevin Jaquiss works in the law firm, Cobbetts, the top UK firm for co-operative and mutual law which has played a leading role in the development of mutuals and co-operatives in housing, health and education. Kevin was part of the group which developed the Supporters Trust concept and wrote the model constitution which is now used by over 100 football club trusts in England, Wales and Scotland.

James Maxton is the corporate affairs Manager at ASDA. He brings nearly 12 years PR experience in a variety of consultancy and in-house roles including five years working in football and sport sponsorship PR. James worked with Carlsberg for its sponsorship of Liverpool, England Team, Euro 2004, FA Cup and official beer clubs. He's worked closely with people in and around Liverpool Football Club and has an understanding of how the club works and the personalities involved.

Bill Rylance is Chairman, Asia Pacific & Vice Chairman, Global Development, Burson-Marsteller Worldwide. Born in Merseyside but has spent most of his professional life in Asia. He led the global communications programme for the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games Organising Committee and was integral in the worldwide campaign host the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. In January this year, he was appointed the company's Vice Chairman for global development.

Madeleine Tan is a Singaporean, with considerable international experience as a management consultant covering Asia, the US and Europe, and a Liverpool fan since childhood.