“I’m privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.”

Sir Alex Ferguson

Board of Directors

  • Avram Glazer – Executive Co-Chairman and Director

    Avram Glazer is Executive Co-Chairman and a Director of the Company. He is currently a director of Red Football Limited and Co-Chairman of Manchester United Limited. Mr. Glazer currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Innovate Corp. Mr Glazer previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Zapata Corporation, from March 1995 to July 2009 and Chairman of the board of Zapata Corporation from March 2002 to July 2009. Mr. Glazer received a business degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982. He received a law degree from American University, Washington College of Law in 1985.

  • Joel Glazer – Executive Co-Chairman and Director

    Joel Glazer is Executive Co-Chairman and a Director of the Company. He is currently a director of Red Football Limited and Co-Chairman of Manchester United Limited. Mr. Glazer is Co-Chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chairman of the NFL International Committee and a member of the NFL Finance, Media, Legalized Sports Betting Committees and a member of the NFL Management Council Executive Committees. Mr. Glazer graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1989 with a bachelor's degree.

  • Kevin Glazer – Director

    Kevin Glazer is a Director of the Company. He is currently a director of Red Football Limited and a director of Manchester United Limited. He is currently the Chairman of Glazer Properties. Mr. Glazer graduated from Ithaca College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. 

  • Bryan Glazer – Director

    Bryan Glazer is a Director of the Company. He is currently a director of Red Football Limited and Manchester United Limited. He is the CoChairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and also serves on the NFL's O&O Committee. Mr. Glazer serves on the board of directors of the Glazer Children's Museum. He received a bachelor's degree from the American University in Washington, D.C., in 1986 and received his law degree from Whittier College School of Law in 1989.

  • Darcie Glazer Kassewitz – Director

    Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, is a Director of the Company. She is currently a director of Red Football Limited. Ms. Glazer Kassewitz is the Owner and President of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation, President of the Glazer Vision Foundation and President of the Glazer Family Foundation. Ms. Glazer Kassewitz is also a member of the NFL Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She graduated cum laude from the American University in 1990 and received a law degree in 1993 from Suffolk Law School.

  • Edward Glazer – Director

    Edward Glazer is a Director of the Company. He is currently a non-executive director of Red Football Limited. He is Co-Chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chairman of US Property Trust and US Auto Trust. Mr. Glazer is also the co-President of the Glazer Family Foundation. Mr. Glazer received a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 1992.

  • Omar Berrada – Chief Executive Officer

    Omar Berrada is the Chief Executive Officer of Manchester United. He joined the club in July 2024 and oversees all aspects of the club’s operation and strategy. Omar has an extensive background in football. Prior to joining Manchester United, he was Chief Football Officer at City Football Group, managing several departments, including football operations, player transactions, data analytics, sports science, and scouting. He has also held a range of other roles within City Football Group and at FC Barcelona, where he was Head of Sponsorship. Alongside club roles, Omar has been a representative on multiple football governing bodies, including the European Clubs’ Association and as a member of the FA Women’s Super League Board.

  • Roger Bell – Chief Financial Officer

    Roger Bell was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Manchester United plc in May 2024. Roger joined INEOS from ICI in 2001 where he held a number of senior business finance roles. He has subsequently held various financial and CFO roles across the INEOS Group and is the former CFO of INEOS Sport.

  • John Reece – Director

    John Reece is a co-owner of INEOS having initially joined INEOS as Finance Director in 2000. Prior to joining INEOS, he was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he advised companies in the chemicals industry.

  • Rob Nevin – Director

    Rob Nevin joined INEOS in 2005 and subsequently held various Chairman and CEO roles across the INEOS Group within industrial businesses. He is currently Chairman of INEOS Sport.

  • Robert Leitão – Independent Director

    Robert Leitão is Managing Partner of Rothschild & Co Gestion, the top holding company of the Rothschild & Co Group, and Co-Chairman of the Rothschild & Co Group Executive Committee. He is also Head of Rothschild & Co’s Global Advisory business, worldwide, and Chief Executive of NM Rothschild & Sons.

    During his 30 year career as a senior Mergers & Acquisitions banker and capital markets expert, Mr Leitão has advised clients on more than 200 transactions around the world.

    Prior to joining Rothschild & Co in 1998, Mr Leitão was a Director and Head of UK M&A at Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited. He graduated with a degree in Engineering from Imperial College, London, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (KPMG).

    Mr Leitão also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Lowy Family Partners, the private investment business and family office of the Lowy family; Chairman of the not-for-profit digital charity box, Pennies Foundation; and a Member of the Advisory Board of the charity, Centre of Entrepreneurs.

  • John Hooks – Independent Director

    John Hooks is an Independent Director of the Company. He has been in the luxury fashion industry for over 40 years and has held positions in some of the sector's most influential companies. After graduating from Oxford University, he entered the fashion industry through Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (GFT) in Turin, Italy. For three years he was commercial director for the prêt-à-porter collection of Valentino. From 1988 to 1994, based in Hong Kong, he was responsible for the establishment of GFT's regional subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia as well as in mainland China (in 1988, the first major foreign fashion company to establish a direct presence in that country). From 1995 to 2000 he was Commercial and Retail Director of Jil Sander in Hamburg, Germany. In 2000, Mr. Hooks joined Giorgio Armani as Group Commercial and Marketing Director, considerably expanding the company's global wholesale and retail network. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Chairman of the Giorgio Armani Group. From 2011 to 2014 he was Group President of Ralph Lauren Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Hooks is currently CEO of Pacific Global Management (PGM). He is also on the board of Miroglio Fashion and is a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company.