Angus Kinnear has taken a seat on the board of Everton after arriving at the club as CEO
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12:29, 12 Jun 2025
New Everton CEO Angus Kinnear speaks during his first full interview with the club
New Everton CEO Angus Kinnear speaks during his first full interview with the club
(Image: Everton TV)
The Everton board has now grown to six members after it was confirmed that new club CEO Angus Kinnear had taken a seat. Kinnear, who joined the club as chief executive last month from Leeds United, will form part of the club’s boardroom hierarchy, with Companies House this week confirming his appointment.
He will join a new-look board at Everton following the December takeover of the club by The Friedkin Group, with the six-person board consisting of Dan Friedkin, TFG representatives Marc Watts (executive chairman), Eric Williamson and Analaura Moreira-Dunkel, with Colin Chong and the Toffees’ chief legal counsel, Katie Charles, also having board seats.
Chief executive officer holding board positions is nothing new for the club, with Chong having held a seat during his interim spell, while former CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale was also a board member.
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Kinnear’s appointment was a key one for TFG as they look towards 2025/26 as a season where they can begin to see growth, with the club’s move into their new 52,888-seater Hill Dickinson Stadium key to that becoming a reality.
TFG had sought a CEO with considerable operational expertise in football at a senior leadership level, and Kinnear’s 20 years in football had seen him develop a reputation as one of the brightest CEO’s in the English game.
"The first priority is always going to be football," he told the club’s in-house media channel, Everton TV last month. "We will always be football first.
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“Ultimately my job and the job of everyone at Everton is to make Evertonians proud. I know they're proud to belong to the club and I want to find reasons to make them proud.
"That starts with what we do on the pitch, so football will always be the number one priority and I think David has done a wonderful job since he came in stabilising things and moving the team on.
"There's a huge restructure to be done in terms of the squad. I think it's pretty unprecedented at Premier League level.
"But David and I see that as an opportunity to take the team on to the next level and fundamentally have a team that is moving up the table."
He also shared his views that recent success stories such as Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace in achieving European qualification should give rise to similar ambitions at Everton.
He said: "I see the potential in everything that Everton is and everything that it can be. I want to be aggressive in our ambitions. I think there's lots of case studies that we've seen recently of teams that I would see as smaller than Everton. Perhaps Nottingham Forest making a run on Europe, Crystal Palace getting to an FA Cup final. They're all things that should be in our ambitions for the medium-term.
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"Longer term, I think we can look beyond that. I think there's no reason why Everton can't challenge it at the top table of European football. We have to be pragmatic. We have to be balanced. We have to be sensible in our decisions. We have to work in a structure where we're not worried about relegation, where we're not concerned by regulatory issues, which have pinned the club back. We need to create a firm foundation that we can build on."