West Ham have recruited Arsenal’s Marketing Director Angus Kinnear to join the West Ham board as Managing Director from the new year. At Arsenal he was responsible for domestic and international marketing, the club’s move to the Emirates Stadium and making Arsenal a growing global brand in world football.
Previously, Angus worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble before heading up sports and youth marketing at Coca-Cola Great Britain, working with the Athens Olympic Games, UEFA European Football Championships, IRB Rugby World Cup and the Football League. Angus is also a board member of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Although he has been at Arsenal since 2004 I understand he is in fact a Luton Town fan. So maybe he is more of a ‘Hatter’ than a ‘Gooner’
Yesterday the club announced that “As Managing Director, Angus will join the Board and be responsible for the Club’s current and future Commercial and Sponsorship operations together with other specific areas relating to the Stadium migration.”
Angus Kinnear was quoted on WHUFC.com “I am thrilled to be joining West Ham United. Opportunities to help lead a world-famous Club into an iconic new home do not come around often, so it was a challenge that was too good to turn down.”
Back in 2005 Marketing Magazine said of Angus “According to one ad agency boss, who worked with Kinnear at Coca-Cola, he has an easygoing nature, a penchant for Karaoke and a reputation as a ‘rebel and a hell-raiser’”
CAREER HISTORY
1996-2000: Brand manager, Laundry and Homecare, Procter & Gamble UK and Europe
2000-2002 Brand strategy consultant, Mountainview
2002-2004 Senior group brand manager, youth brands, Coca-Cola GB
2004-2010 Marketing manager, Arsenal Football Club
2010-2013 Marketing director, Arsenal Football Club
West Ham Commercial Director Departs
West Ham’s current Commercial Director Barry Webber will become the new CEO of Stevenage Football Club in the new year it has also been announced.
Webber said in an article which can be found here “I have greatly enjoyed my time at West Ham and will leave with very fond memories of the club, the staff and the fans"
Barry was previously Commercial Director at Newcastle United as well as Sport Commercial Manager at AEG Sponsorship and Sponsorship Sales at the International Tennis Federation before joining West Ham.
He becomes one of the youngest CEO’s in the Football League at the age of 36.