Following the 2023/24 season, Charlton’s owners, Global Football Partners, conducted a thorough review of the club's management structure and have made a number of changes.
Charlton Athletic’s board for the 2024/25 season will consist of James Rodwell, Paul Elliott CBE MBE, Gavin Carter, Charlie Methven and Ed Warrick.
As Managing Director, Rodwell will oversee Charlton’s football operations at Sparrows Lane. He will also continue to chair the board.
Meanwhile, Elliott has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board and continues to lead Charlton’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives.
Methven has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. In his role, he will be responsible for the off-pitch growth of the football club and will oversee the day-to-day running of the club at The Valley. Warrick continues as Chief Financial Officer while Carter continues as an independent Non-Executive Director.
As part of the changes, Andy Scott will step away from board duties to focus on his role as Technical Director in charge of the club’s first-team football departments at the training ground, reporting to Rodwell.
Rodwell, Methven and Carter will speak at Thursday evening’s online fan meeting. To find out more about the fan meeting, please click here.
Representatives from the club have been working with Charlton Athletic Supporters’ Trust (CAST) and other stakeholders over a period of time with a view to setting up a broader fan engagement strategy. The discussions have included the possibility of an advisory board being setup ahead of the coming season, with strong fan representation, respecting Charlton’s heritage as the original community club. This process has included looking at best practice at other clubs and taking advice and guidance from the Football Supporters’ Association with further updates to be shared in due course.
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Presumably by those who actually own the club, after ‘a process’.
Maybe he applied and was interviewed along with any other candidates by a panel consisting of Rodwell, Warrick, Carter and Elliott.
Demotion for Andy Scott too.
Driven by the beneficial owners, it says, which suggests they haven't been totally happy with how things have gone so far.
Personally it seems it is giving CM a title for a role he already had.
Cynics will say it's rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
Our new walk on music to replace red red robin... Sandstorm (youtube.com)
And the new Standing section when Charlie boy turns it up to 11...
Somebody Netflix highlights well enough isn't fit for purpose either.
Nathan Jones has a lot of work to do this year - 3 jobs in fact !
Hmmm
This was brought up at previous FF and one of the driving forces was the Fans4Fans supporters group. CAST seemed a bit "meh".
Shouldn't this also include other groups and organisations too?
How come CAST haven't said anything? Shouldn't they consult members?
We were at our most succesful when we all steered in the same direction, the lack of comms from the club and its affliates tells me success my not be as close as we would like
As part of the changes, Andy Scott will step away from board duties to focus on his role as Technical Director in charge of the club’s first-team football departments at the training ground, reporting to Rodwell.
Can a wage be saved here? Looks a bit similar in my opinion re the job description (Not the chair part)
GFP, which made the acquisition via its UK subsidiary SE7 Partners, is made up of seven shareholders with 5%+ each (detailed below). Those shareholders sit on GFP’s Board of Directors, along with Finance Director Ed Warrick and Sporting Director Simon Lenagan. GFP also has a small number of shareholders whose holdings are less than 5% each.
Edit: Dammit, that’ll teach me to PWR
Agreed. Hopefully he's learned from that car crash.
You’ve not thought this through.
Also don't reckon any of this will make a blind bit of difference to anything at the business end of the Club ie - Jones and the first team.
I have no strong feelings either way about Methven, but I don't see how the new title for Methven suggests the owners think he's failed, or was at fault for our dismal ONFIELD performance.
Remember he said it's an easy division, you can save loads of money by being smarter etc etc
Then we stunk it up!
Methven was a major part of the problem last year.