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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.
Martin McEwan has a 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. Having run his own marketing & communications consultancy, he is currently working for the NHS in Wirral as Director of Communications & Engagement, and is on the board of the New Heartlands Housing Market Renewal programme for Merseyside. He’s been a Red for over 30 years. 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 from Dublin and has been a senior business manager for over 25 years. He became CEO of the Football Association of Ireland in 1996 and served for five years during which time he was a member of several UEFA committees and also acted as Champions League Venue Director. Most recently he was CEO of the Mansfield Group, Ireland's largest tourism and leisure group, before joining CommsCube.com, a computer software company, as CEO,Director and Shareholder. A Liverpool fan for over 40 years, he is the ShareLiverpoolFC co-ordinator for Ireland.
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.
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.
Alastair Campbell is a lifelong Liverpool fan and a director at Extravision (www.extravision.com), a north-west based digital marketing company. He and his team are experts in all aspects of digital marketing and are responsible for promoting the ShareLiverpoolFC cause, collating information and ensuring all SLFC supporters are updated on a regular basis.
Akhlaq Choudhury is director for Design and Software Solutions (www.dassol.co.uk). Akhlaq and his team are responsible for the design and implementation of the shareliverpoolfc site, as well as general IT.
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