Wembley Stadium Management Team
Alex Horne
Managing Director
Alex is currently overseeing the Wembley Stadium project and will look to ensure a smooth handover from stadium constructors Multiplex in early 2007. Alex joined The FA in July 2003 and was promoted to Group Finance Director in April 2006, taking a significant role in supporting the Wembley project.
Prior to joining The FA, 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
Finance Director
Roger started his career with the intentions of being a pathologist but ended up as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Ernst & Whinney in 1985! However, his interest in chemistry and in particular alcohol persisted. First, he joined Courage and then Guinness Brewing before moving to the whisky giant United Distillers in 1991.
During his 10 years in booze, Roger acted as Finance Controller for over a hundred markets across the globe, and as the Finance Director of United Distillers in Mexico and Managing Director of European Duty Free in Hamburg. After the announcement of the merger between Guineess and Grand Metropolitan in 1997, Roger became Integration and Finance Director of the Duty Free Division, responsible for the integration of Diageo's Duty Free Spirits across the globe.
Roger joined WNSL in February 1999 and spent the first month handling the acquisition of the Stadium from Wembley plc. Roger was instrumental in developing the business plan and the funding structure, which was underwritten by the German Bank, West LB, in September 2002.
Jonathan Gregory
Marketing & Commercial Director
Jonathan is responsible for the marketing, commercial and PR aspects of the stadium project, plus the sales of the Club Wembley 10 year seat licences and corporate boxes. Jonathan joined Wembley Stadium in 2004 from Puma where he was Head of Sports Marketing, prior to this Jonathan held a variety of sales, marketing, PR and sponsorship roles within Walkers, PepsiCo and Coca Cola.
David Thomson
Events Director
David joined Wembley Stadium’s team in September 2007 as Events Director. David leads a team of 15 and is responsible for Event Management, Event Holder Liaison, Ticketing, Customer Services, the delivery of Club Wembley and is the main liaison with the stadium’s catering partners, DNC.
A former international athlete who has represented Scotland in Track and Cross Country, David has a considerable amount of live event and estate management experience having joined the stadium team from Wembley London Limited, the owners of the adjacent Arena and former conferencing and exhibiting facilities. In total David has more than 19 year’s operational experience on the Wembley Estate.
Greg Gillin
Head of Facilities Management (FM)
Prior to joining Wembley, Greg was engaged in the UK as the Global Facilities Manager for Skype and Group Facilities Manager for Northgate Information Solutions managing the FM and Property management needs of multiple sites throughout the world. Greg is responsible for all aspects of the stadium's FM, Grounds Management and Non Event Day Security.
Originally from Australia, Greg is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and spent 12 years employed by the largest sports and entertainment precinct in the southern hemisphere, Melbourne and Olympic Parks, which comprises two operable roof arenas and a multi use stadium. During this time, Greg was heavily involved with all aspects of the operational and venue management for in excess of 3500 major events including the Australian Open Grand Slam Tennis tournament, Commonwealth Games, National Ruby, Basketball, Cycling and Football, World Championship Gymnastics, Cycling and Swimming and countless international music events.
Nick Woodhouse
Head of Health, Safety and Compliance
Nick joined Wembley Stadium in 2006 having previously worked in a consultancy capacity for the stadium. At the end of 2007 Nick was appointed as Head of Health Safety & Compliance and on event days is the Stadium’s Safety Officer. Nick is responsible for all aspects of the event safety planning processes across all departments, and as such is the most senior manager on major event days at the stadium.
A qualified Company Secretary, Nick has considerable experience of venue and event management in the leisure and entertainment arena, across both the public and private sector. Nick has fulfilled senior management roles and consultancy functions for venues such as Twickenham, Wembley Arena, Earl’s Court and The Dome and for major events such as The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Celebration Concerts and the Robbie Williams series of concerts at Knebworth.