Richard Scudamore
English football executive
Richard Craig Scudamore CBE (born 11 August 1959) is an English sports executive.
He was the Executive Chairman of the English Premier League from June 2014 until his retirement in November 2018. He had previously served as chief executive since November 1999.
Biography
Scudamore attended Kingsfield School in Kingswood, Bristol, where he was Head Boy in his final year and which he left in 1977. He studied law at the University of Nottingham but never went on to qualify or practice law. He then spent nine years at Yellow Pages, a division of British Telecom, progressing through sales and marketing, business planning and regional management to the position of sales director.
Newspaper career
Prior to his career in football, Scudamore worked for ten years in the newspaper industry, mainly for Thomson. He joined them as group advertising director, but went on to spend his last three years with the Thomson Corporation in the United States as senior vice president responsible for all their newspaper operations in the southern and eastern U.S. He also managed all advertising, sales and marketing activity for the entire company. This assignment followed a number of general management roles within Thomson, covering a range of media.
Football League
From 1997 to 1999, Scudamore was chief executive of the Football League.
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