Our Board v Brightons Board. Shows where the issues lay

[DonegalEvertonian]

Owner - Farhad Moshiri - He is the chairman and a shareholder of USM, a diversified Russian holding company with significant interests across the metals and mining, telecoms, technology and internet sectors.
Chairman - Bill Kenwright - Local Life Long Evertonian & Prolific theatre Production Compnay ( No Business Back Ground)
CEO -Denise Barrett-Baxendale - worked for a small schools charity in Liverpool, called The Fiveways Trust
Financial Director - Grant Ingles - Been in and around the club on and off since 2006 with varies roles up to now FD
Directors
- Grahame Sharp Former Player

Brigton
Chairman - Tony Bloom - Local Life Long Brighton Fan & Success Business man outside of football
CEO - Paul Barber - 25 Years experience in the Football Business up to and including head of marketing for the FA.
Finance Director - Lee Cooper - Accountant with a background in Audit,Tax and Corporate finance.

Directors
-Ray Bloom -founder of the IMEX Group
- Derek Chapman - Founder of Adenstar Developments Ltd, which grew to become one of the largest construction companies in the south east.
- Robert Comer - Former HMRC tax inspector
- Adma Franks - worked at KPMG and subsequently ING Barings before using his considerable business acumen to build and grow businesses relating to the professional sports and financial markets. He is currently chairman of Blue and White Capital, a single family office that specialises in private and public equity investments.
- Peter Godfrey - He is an entrepreneur, founder and chairman of a number of companies, including First Agency, a global experiential creative agency, and a director and chairman of a number of other entities.
- Marc Sugarman - graduating from Oxford University, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1996. Marc joined Morgan Stanley that year as an Equity Analyst covering European Media and continued as an analyst in the same sector for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup until 2009.
- Michelle Walder - Having studied Russian and French in Bristol and Law in London, Michelle worked in HR in financial services (Commerzbank, Nomura, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), before cofounding TXG in 2004 – a leadership development consultancy where she is CEO. She is also a director at Hay Festival and Chair at the Migraine Trust.


Everton have 5 people on there board 3 with no real business experience, Brighton have 10 people all with real life business experience covering all the areas needed to run a football club, they have constructions specialists, HR specialist, Tax Specialist.

They are fast becoming the Model we should be trying to follow from top to bottom.

 

[4737carlin]

Everton have 5 people on there board 3 with no real business experience, Brighton have 10 people all with real life business experience covering all the areas needed to run a football club, they have constructions specialists, HR specialist, Tax Specialist.

They are fast becoming the Model we should be trying to follow from top to bottom.

Good post that, this part is spot on, its exactly what Moshiri failed to do, he should gave done it 7 years ago, we had a chance then, now its going to take years to sort this and he clearly isn't the owner to do it.
Investment and seats on the board won't help, only thing that can fix us is a sale to the right man or group who can do this, not sure.if it's 777, MSP sounded better but I fear Farhad is going to.cling.on.

 

[Rob17896]

Good post that, this part is spot on, its exactly what Moshiri failed to do, he should gave done it 7 years ago, we had a chance then, now its going to take years to sort this and he clearly isn't the owner to do it.
Investment and seats on the board won't help, only thing that can fix us is a sale to the right man or group who can do this, not sure.if it's 777, MSP sounded better but I fear Farhad is going to.cling.on.

He cant when we are bust.

 

[Billy Dean]

We had that Ryasantsev fella who seems to have a decent enough background, i.e. senior positions at some big banks etc

 

[blueboy1945]

We only have 4 on the board. FM is not a director.

 

[mahermi1]

Good post that, this part is spot on, its exactly what Moshiri failed to do, he should gave done it 7 years ago, we had a chance then, now its going to take years to sort this and he clearly isn't the owner to do it.
Investment and seats on the board won't help, only thing that can fix us is a sale to the right man or group who can do this, not sure.if it's 777, MSP sounded better but I fear Farhad is going to.cling.on.

...Gulp I've, I've just agreed with Carlin forgive me lads. Seriously you're correct and does bring it home you have a serious side.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Whilst I agree with you I think its too early to be labelling Brighton as some beacon of success that we must follow. Under Wee Davey/Kenwright we were doing the exact same as what Brighton have been doing but over a longer period of time due to being skint.

Brighton have had 2x seasons in the top 10 - under Moshiri's tenure we've had 3x. You also have to acknowledge you always get a small club punch above their weight for a few years - Swansea and Watford did similiar a couple of years back.

They'll be back in midtable within 2-3 seasons like WHU, Wolves, Leicester, Villa, Brentford etc who chase their tales underneath the glass ceiling of the scab 6 + oil Newcastle.

@Saint Domingo

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

We had that Ryasantsev fella who seems to have a decent enough background, i.e. senior positions at some big banks etc

He was reported as being the man charged with overseeing the owners interest with an office at Finch farm.
But he left a while ago with little explanation and no replacement.
I find that curious .
The cynic in me suggests he was manoeuvred out by the Kenwright clique.

 

[Billy Dean]

Whilst I agree with you I think its too early to be labelling Brighton as some beacon of success that we must follow. Under Wee Davey/Kenwright we were doing the exact same as what Brighton have been doing but over a longer period of time due to being skint.

Brighton have had 2x seasons in the top 10 - under Moshiri's tenure we've had 3x. You also have to acknowledge you always get a small club punch above their weight for a few years - Swansea and Watford did similiar a couple of years back.

They'll be back in midtable within 2-3 seasons like WHU, Wolves, Leicester, Villa, Brentford etc who chase their tales underneath the glass ceiling of the scab 6 + oil Newcastle.

@Saint Domingo

The bold part is a laughable shout. Brighton's owner has invested hundreds of millions into the club and installed a modern infrastructure. Kenwright invested absolutely nothing and sold off all our infrastructure, and relied on Moyes for player recruitment

 

[Billy Dean]

He was reported as being the man charged with overseeing the owners interest with an office at Finch farm.
But he left a while ago with little explanation and no replacement.
I find that curious .
The cynic in me suggests he was manoeuvred out by the Kenwright clique.

The Layman article suggested he resigned because he wanted to modernise and couldn't get past BK's intransigence

 

[Simon Buttle]

He was reported as being the man charged with overseeing the owners interest with an office at Finch farm.
But he left a while ago with little explanation and no replacement.
I find that curious .
The cynic in me suggests he was manoeuvred out by the Kenwright clique.

He was some sort of commercial guy and all I remember was some line after he had left about whatever it was he wanted to do he kept getting told "Oh we don't do it like that here as we are local club"

 

[ForeverBlue92]

The bold part is a laughable shout. Brighton's owner has invested hundreds of millions into the club and installed a modern infrastructure. Kenwright invested absolutely nothing and sold off all our infrastructure, and relied on Moyes for player recruitment

But we're not talking about investment ere - we are talking about Brightons "success" on the field the past 12-18 months which is ultimately down to smart recruitment.

Prior to Martinez Everton were doing the exact same as what Brighton are doing now.

Coleman: 60k
Jags: £5 millions
Baines: £6 millions
Lescott: £6 millions
Felli: £15 millions
Cahill: £2.5 millions
Arteta: £2 millions
Peanuts: £2.5m

You dont need to have 20 board members with vast business experience to recruit smartly - thats football basics.

 

[Billy Dean]

But we're not talking about investment ere - we are talking about Brightons "success" on the field the past 12-18 months which is ultimately down to smart recruitment.

Prior to Martinez Everton were doing the exact same as what Brighton are doing now.

Coleman: 60k
Jags: £5 millions
Baines: £6 millions
Lescott: £6 millions
Felli: £15 millions
Cahill: £2.5 millions
Arteta: £2 millions
Peanuts: £2.5m

You dont need to have 20 board members with vast business experience to recruit smartly - thats football basics.

And it was completely reliant on Moyes. Unsustainable.

 

[Billy Dean]

Although I agree it still remains to be seen how long Brighton can sustain their success as other clubs catch onto their methods and start fishing in the same waters

 

[4737carlin]

But we're not talking about investment ere - we are talking about Brightons "success" on the field the past 12-18 months which is ultimately down to smart recruitment.

Prior to Martinez Everton were doing the exact same as what Brighton are doing now.

Coleman: 60k
Jags: £5 millions
Baines: £6 millions
Lescott: £6 millions
Felli: £15 millions
Cahill: £2.5 millions
Arteta: £2 millions
Peanuts: £2.5m

You dont need to have 20 board members with vast business experience to recruit smartly - thats football basics.

Correct, but one thing you do need is an owner who leaves the right people to do the job and doesn't stick his nose into business affairs he doesn't understand