Our Members.
United together in sport.

Simon is Chairman of Global Venue Services, and an independent Non-Executive Director of the EFL,the Football League. He’s involved with various charities, as a Trustee of the Ragged School Museum, and on the NSPCC Sports Board and the Roundhouse Trust Development Board.

At the end of 2019 he stepped down after 11 years as Chairman of JCR, the largest UK racecourse operator, and Group Chief Executive of its owner, The Jockey Club. Prior to this he spent four years as the founding Executive Chairman for Racecourse Media Group, the owner of the Racing TV channel. He was previously Chief Executive of Music Choice Europe, the first digital broadcaster in Europe, jointly owned by three major music groups and BSkyB. He started his career in the city with 10 years at KPMG. He is a maths graduate from Warwick University.

He is an owner, both as a member of a number of Thurloe Thoroughbred syndicates and with Alan King and is a lifelong fan and season ticket holder at Brentford FC, the Mighty Bees.

Chris graduated and headed into the City, where he directed his talents and training into the field of equity sales.Racing came to his attention when sneaking out of school on the weekends to visit Cheltenham. He has sincebecome a regular at Ascot and Glorious Goodwood and has lifelong ambition to see the Melbourne Cup.

Steve was born in South Africa, where he remained until 1999, when he relocated to the UK with the Investec Group. He has had a long career with Investec which began in 1989; he has held various positions and was Chief Executive of Rensburg Sheppards plc 47% Investec owned by Investec plc). In June 2010 Investec consolidated its private wealth management businesses within Investec Wealth and Investment, which he headed.

Steve has an interest in all sport and regularly plays golf.

Educated at Sherborne and King’s College London, Balthazar joined Ladbrokes in 2002. In 2005 he founded Fitzdares, the bookmakers, with members of the Goldsmith family James Osborne and Taki Theodoracoplous. Fitzdares is a member of Walpole, the trade body for the British luxury industry, representing 175 of the UK’s finest brands, and was nominated for Best Luxury Service alongside Harrods, the Connae Fat Duck. Balthazar was also a co-executive producer of the cricket documentary Fire in Babylon and a Boodles Boxer (2013).

His passions are backgammon, cribbage and the Miles frost fund.

James is a Founding Partner at Archr LLP, a boutique futures and options broker. Following the untimely demise of MF Global James and a number of his colleagues created a small but successful fully independent, idea and execution driven broker.

As he was too large to be a jockey and too short on talent to be a professional footballer James settled on life as a futures broker and sports fan.

He grew up in Melbourne before moving to Sydney and eventually London.

He loves all things sport and food, particularly when he can combine the two.

Graham was born in Largs, Ayrshire and educated at the University of Stirling, where he dabbled with academic studies and majored in representing the Golf Team and embraced all social aspects. He has spent all his working life in an around the software and services industry with long leadership positions at the likes of Accenture,Diagonal plc and SAP. Currently Graham works for his own consultancy with clients in and around the world of SAP and Microsoft. A lifelong sports enthusiast including golf, rugby, football to mention but 3 although there are very few sports he has not tried or as a minimum watched with interest. Most recently he captained RoyalMid-Surrey Golf Club in 2021 and is a member of both the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and Prestwick Golf Club, all of which he represents regularly on and off the course.

Graham is a season ticket holder at the sometimes-mighty Brentford FC and a debenture holder at Murrayfield, where he regularly watches Scotland beat England.

As President and MD for Warner Bros. Discovery UK and Ireland, Andrew leads and supports all the different business lines of Warner Bros. Discovery in the territory, including 16 different free-to-air and pay TV channels, WBD’s streaming home - discovery+, WBD’s theatrical, consumer products, home entertainment, game distribution, TV licensing, affiliate sales and advertising business.

As President and MD for Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, Andrew is responsible for a number of WBD sports businesses and brands including Eurosport, TNT Sports, the Olympic Games, Global Cycling Network (GCN) and the organisation's specialist Events offering in sport, as well as representing Warner Bros. Discovery’s interests on the Board of Formula E.

Joining the company in 2019, Andrew arrived from Lagardere Sports and Entertainment, a global sports marketing company where he was the CEO for 5 years.

Andrew is also a member of the Board of Sports United Against Dementia, part of the Alzheimer’s Society in the UK, helping raise awareness as well as funding for research and to support those suffering from dementia.

Alan was also Club Captain Royal Lytham, where he had the honour of honour of presenting the Claret Jug to David Duval in 2001.  He has horses in training with Richard Phillips, Charlie Longsdon and Henry de Bromhead.

Educated at Trinity School Croydon and qualified as a Cost and Management Accountant whilst working at International Leisure Group and Lowndes Queensway. Started as a racecourse commentator in 1992 having answered an advert in the Sporting Life and soon after began voiceover work for SIS. Presented the first programme on the original Racing Channel before working for the Hong Kong Jockey Club from 1997-2000 and then extensively in Dubai presenting the World Feed for the Dubai World Cup from 2006-2015. ITV lead commentator since 2017 and have called at all UK racecourses as well as in South Africa, Canada, France, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Japan.

Not content with dry land, Guy is also a committed sailor and in fact his father has competed in three Sydney to Hobart races – not bad for a blind man.

A native Australian based in London, Greg has had a career and track record with global finance firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Citigroup, RBS/ABN AMRO).

Greg qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in Australia, before moving to work in M&A Investment Banking (Director), followed by his current career in Private Equity, where he had invested in or advised on multi-sector deals in the US, UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Australia.  He is currently President and Partner at Demira Gate Investments, a Private Investment Firm headquartered in New York, with a track record over 10 years of direct private equity investing with sector focuses including sports, media, technology, aerospace and defence, consumer, luxury, entertainment.

Greg graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Flinders University in Australia where he graduated as 1^stplace degree student and awarded the University Medal. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia graduating as state prize winner and has been a lecturer in the course and holds an Advanced Diploma in Corporate Finance from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Greg also has varying sporting interests including former Non-Executive Director, Australian Football League Europe, former Chairman of Tennis Officials Australia, working closely with Tennis Australia former professional tennis umpire, having officiated in many Grand Slam, Davis Cup and ATP World Tour tennis finals, including Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Finals and a Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles final.

Greg lives in Chelsea, plays tennis at The Queen’s Club in London and is also a member of The Adelaide Club in Australia.

James is now retired from full time work having been a partner in the law firms of Wilde Sapte (1991-2000) and Clifford Chance LLP (2000-2016). He is now one of the six people who set up Dunelm Partners to back young people (20-35) in business. He was one of the group that organised the “Lineker Consortium” to rescue Leicester City FC from insolvency in 2003 and subsequently was a director for four years. While an ardent supporter of all Leicester and England teams at football, rugby union and cricket, it was actually cricket he played and turned out for Dulwich CC for over 30 years. Cricket has now given way to golf but the extra cover drive is still very much in evidence.

Stephen has over 30 years commercial experience in sports marketing with Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM). Stephen is currently Global President – Sales & Olympic and Major Events at SPORTFIVE – a leading global sports marketing agency.

Originally from Melbourne, Stephen has lived in the UK since 2007. Hosted by former Carbine Club President, colleague and mentor, the late John Fitzgerald, Stephen attended his first Carbine Club lunch in Melbourne in 1995. Stephen has been a member of CCL since 2013.

Jenny is a career advisor and coach with Stork & May in London. Prior to her coaching career, Jenny spent 25 years as a management consultant, including 15 years with a firm she co-founded in 2000. Jenny is also a Governor at Ardingly College in West Sussex.

Jenny studied at the University of Oxford and is an Athletics and Cross Country Blue. She still enjoys the odd muddy run but also spends much of her spare time watching football, F1, athletics, cricket, cycling and rugby (league!). She is a lifelong Nottingham Forest supporter and Warrington Wolves fan.

Brian is Chair at Trainline PLC and Lead Non-Executive Director on the Board of the UK’s Ministry of Defence, a UK Government appointment. He is also a Senior Adviser with Scottish Equity Partners.  He recently stepped down as President of the CBI.

Brian was Chairman of ASOS from 2012 to 2018. He was CEO of Amazon.co.uk from 2006 to 2011. He held senior roles at IBM in USA and UK, Dell Computers and as Managing Director of T-Mobile (UK). He has been a Non-Executive Director of Celtic Football Club PLC, SThree PLC, Computacenter PLC, AO.com, Kinnevik AB and Abrdn PLC (was Standard Life). He has served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the BBC, a member of the UK Government Digital Advisory Board and member of the Huawei Advisory Board.

Brian is a member of Camberley Heath Golf Club and the RAF Club.

Martin started his career in the City in the 1970’s. He joined the Exchange Telegraph Company designing investment management systems. Having developed a reputation in Asset Management industry he founded Citisoft PLC a global advisory service for financial institutions. The company was sold in 2005 and since then he has kept himself in touch with financial technology advising several start-up organisations.

Martin comes from a family with a keen interest in horse racing going back to the 19^th century. In 1997 he became involved in horse racing ownership and has had interests in many horses since then.  In 2006 he identified a yearling, which was purchased after discussion with other connections. This horse went on to win several group races including the Winter Derby and the Grand prix de Chantilly.  Martin still has part-ownership of several horses.

Among Martin’s many other sporting interests are rugby, tennis, soccer, cricket and golf. He is also interested in opera, renaissance art and literature. Historically he has been engaged with an African development charity and takes a keen interest in world affairs.

He is an avid supporter of Watford FC and a member of the RAC and Chess Valley RFC.

Deepam is an experienced Dentist and Implant Surgeon working in Essex. He qualified with Distinction at theQueen Mary University of London in 2002 and since then has gained an Associate Fellowship at the College of General Dentistry, along with a Master’s degree with Distinction (University of Warwick) and as a Diplomate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

Academically, he has served as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer for the University of Warwick, as well as a former Advisory Board member (Implant Dentistry) at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Deepam has a developing interest in fine wine with a growing collection in bond. A keen sporting fan with limited sporting talent, he has managed to maintain a golfing handicap of 9 and is a committee member ofThorndon Park Golf Club. Golf aside, there are few sports he will not watch - football, cricket, rugby and tennis supporting Liverpool, England and India are among his favourites.

Deepam has attended many Royal Ascot meetings over the last 15 years as a member of the Royal Enclosure and is keen to develop his understanding of the sport.

Andrew Porter is a partner at Brunswick. Prior to joining the corporate communications firm, he was a journalist for 15 years. He was the Daily Telegraph Political Editor (2007-11); The Sun Deputy Political Editor (2006-07); The Sunday Times Deputy Political Editor, and Business Correspondent (2003-06); Sunday Business Political Editor (2000-03); and Western Morning News London Editor (1997-2000).

Andrew is a Governor of Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar. He is a member of Brookman’s Park Golf Club and The Press Golfing Society. Andrew is a graduate of Warwick University, BA (Hons) History & Politics (1994). He also gained a postgraduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism from Cardiff University (1997).

Johnno set up JSC Comms in January 2004 and remains its Managing Director. JSC has quickly established itself a reputation as one of the most creative and reputable agencies in the sports and consumer PR industry with a wide variety of clients.

Johnno started his career at Craigie Taylor International (now Brand Rapport) as a PR Executive where his first clients included Vodaphone and the Famous Grouse.

After two years, Johnno was promoted to an Account Director and started to focus on horse racing accounts, working specifically on the PR for Jockey Club Racecourses such as Sandown Park and Epsom Downs, venue for the Epsom Derby.

Johnno specialises in working with major brands to develop their reputation amongst high-end clients. To this end, JSC is retained by major international names such as Investec and Sodexo.

Stephen is the third generation of his family to have gone into racecourse management. Accountancy and advertising were good experience but not the right fit. Luckily, he was in the proverbial right place at the right time when a management role came up at Sandown Park. Having then had what he regards as the privilege of running Epsom Downs and being in charge of The Derby for eleven years, he moved to Newmarket as MD in 2007 followed by a new role of Jockey Club Group Director of International and Racing Relations in 2011. He retired from The Jockey Club in 2023 and is now a consultant to a select but hopefully growing number of racing interests in the UK and abroad.

Married with four grown up children, Stephen enjoys all sport with boyish enthusiasm. Sadly, his talent for watching is not matched by his ability with bat, ball or putter - but he always tries, and he always has fun!

Dickon grew up outside of Cambridge, before moving to the Wirral to take up a marketing role at Aintree Racecourse.  After 25 years up in the North-West, he is now the Regional Director for The Jockey Club, with responsibility for Aintree and Haydock Park.   He also sits on the Sport Liverpool Board with the responsibility of promoting the City to a wider audience.

Dickon fell in love with horseracing after a visit to Newmarket in his teens and enjoys both codes of the sport, although with a bias towards Jumps racing, and particularly the Randox Grand National.

A very keen sports fan, he played cricket to a decent level in his younger days, and now enjoys a round of golf and has recently become a member at Caldy, one of the signature links courses on the Wirral, with the hope of getting the handicap into single figures!

Away from work, he is a supporter of various charities in the North-West and has two teenage daughters, who both enjoy playing hockey and other sports, Dickon is the regular taxi driver!