British Swimming Names New Chairman
Alistair Gray, a strategy consultant with vast experience of the sporting sector, has been appointed as the new Chairman of British Swimming.
Gray, the founder and Managing Director of Genesis, has led major strategic reviews of many sporting governing bodies and will spearhead British Swimming’s Board up to 2012.
The reviews include those carried out for The FA, The LTA, Scottish Rugby, Irish Rugby Football Union and Rugby Football League.
Gray is also a World Class Adviser to UK Sport and Sport England and has been asked by them to carry out many of their most complex and sensitive reviews.
He famously reviewed Irish football after the public quarrel between Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in the warm up to the 2002 World Cup, and has continued to work with the sport as it has modernised since that review.
Gray has chaired a number of companies and other organisations including the Scottish Institute of Sport and British Performance Basketball, as well as being a founding director of the Winning Scotland Foundation and former Chairman, President and Honorary President of Scottish Hockey on a voluntary basis.
Gray has also worked extensively in international management with Unilever and the John Wood Group PLC. He has 26 years experience in strategic consulting internationally and is a former non-executive director of Highland Distillers plc, AorTech International plc and is currently on the strategy committee of two other PLCs.
He was recently appointed an Honorary Professor in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland’s University of Sporting Excellence. He is also a visiting Professor at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) participating on their International Masters Programme.
