Board Members
David Bernstein (Chairman)
As a Non-Executive Director on the Wembley Stadium Board for 5 Years, David played an integral role in the successful delivery and opening of the stadium. In July 2008 he took over from Michael Jeffries as Chairman.
The former Chairman of Manchester City Football Club, David has vast experience in the business of stadia. In particular, he negotiated the Club’s move to its new home at the City of Manchester Stadium and was closely involved in its development as a venue suitable for football. David is also Chairman of Blacks Leisure Group plc, Sports and Leisure Group Ltd and of Frank Thomas Ltd and is Director of Ted Baker plc and of Carluccios plc.
Lord Triesman
Lord Triesman Joined The FA as Chairman in January 2008. Having been a Government Minister since 2004, initially as a Government Whip, then at the Foreign Office and latterly at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Lord Triesman stepped down from his Ministerial post in the Government to take up the Chairmanship at The FA.
Before joining Government, Lord Triesman was General Secretary of the Labour Party and earlier of the Association of University Teachers. Lord Triesman is a distinguished academic by profession and has also been involved with football for many years - as a former grassroots player, coach and referee he has a life–long passion for the game.
Philip Gartside
Philip qualified as a Management Accountant in 1973. He has been Chairman of Burnden Leisure plc, the parent company of Bolton Wanderers FC, since 2000. He is also the Executive Chairman of Locker Group Pty Limited, an engineering group based in Australia.
Philip is an Executive Board Member of The FA, a member of The FA Cup Committee and a Premier League representative with the Football Foundation. He became a director of BWFC in 1989 and Chairman in 1999. Philip joined the Wembley Stadium Board in February 2005.
Alex Horne
As The FA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Alex is responsible for all Corporate Services across the Group structure including Finance.
As Managing Director of Wembley Stadium since December 2006, Alex has been responsible for the delivery of the stadium’s events and all areas of its day to day operation after ensuring a smooth handover from stadium constructors Multiplex.
Prior to joining The FA in 2003 as Finance Director, Alex trained at Coopers and Lybrand as a Chartered Accountant before moving into the business recovery practice. He then spent two years living in Bangkok working on financial restructuring assignments. After two years in the Far East Alex returned to London to join a Business Regeneration practice, working on a number of business improvement and corporate turnaround assignments.
Roger Maslin
Roger joined Wembley Stadium as Finance Director in February 1999 handling the acquisition of the stadium from Wembley plc and developing the business plans to fund the new stadium. Roger played a leading role in negotiating the terms of the bank loans to build the stadium, in reaching the settlement deal with stadium contractors, Multiplex and in the successful opening of the new stadium and development of its commercial properties.
Roger Maslin is currently combining his role of Finance Director with that of Acting MD for the business until a permanent Wembley Stadium CEO is in place.
Previously Roger was the Finance Director of United Distillers in Mexico and Finance Director of European and Global Duty Free in Hamburg. After the merger, Roger went on to become Integration and Finance Director of the merged Duty Free Division.
Ian Ritchie
Chief Executive of The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, Independent Director of the Football League and a former Director of West Ham United Football Club, Ian has extensive experience of operating world-class sports venues and of staging the very best of sports events.
Ian trained as a Barrister, studying Law at Oxford University. He then worked his way up through the Television industry over 16 years before becoming Chief Executive of Channel 5 in 1996. Ian joined the Board of Wembley Stadium in July 2008.
Melvin Benn
Music promoter and Chief Executive of Festival Republic, the company behind the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Operations Director for the Glastonbury Festival, Melvin has vast experience of staging the best in entertainment events.
Born in Hull, East Yorkshire, Melvin created The Festival Office Ltd in 1989 to create and produce festivals for the Mean Fiddler. In the same year the Mean Fiddler took over the Reading Festival, which has sold out ever since to daily audiences of 80,000. In 1999, Benn took the three day camping event to the North of England and the Leeds Festival now takes place over the same bank holiday weekend as Reading attracting 70,000 people each day. Melvin joined the Wembley Stadium Board in July 2008.
Scott Martin
Scott became involved in the stadium in 2004 as an advisor to The FA. He played a key role in the commercial negotiations that resulted in the financial settlement with Multiplex that facilitated the stadium being handed by the contractor at practical completion on 9 March 2007.
Scott is a Chartered Accountant who retired from Ernst & Young at the end of 2003 having spent 32 years at the firm, the last 17 years as a partner specialising in corporate restructuring activities. In 2001, at the request of government, he was appointed one of the Special Railway Administrators of Railtrack plc. He provides commercial support to large corporate organisations through his consultancy practice.