Premier League: Alison Brittain appointed as chair effective from "early 2023"

"The Premier League is pleased to confirm Alison Brittain (ENG) as its new chair after clubs today voted unanimously in favour of her appointment," announced the English body on 26/07/2022. Brittain will take up the position "in early 2023" and succeed Peter McCormick, who became the League's interim chair after Gary Hoffman (chairman since 01/06/2020) stepped down on 01/02/2021.

"Alison is one of the country's leading business executives with a first-class record in strategic leadership across different sectors. Since 2015, Alison has been the CEO of Whitbread PLC (multinational hotel and restaurant company), one of the UK's oldest public companies, and now a leading hospitality business. She will be stepping down from her role at Whitbread in early 2023 and will then focus on serving as the Premier League chair, as well as her other non-executive roles (see below)," explained the Premier League.

"The game is of enormous national importance, is loved by so many people around the world and can have a tremendous positive impact on communities. It will be a real privilege to be able to…