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SUE DAY Sue Day became RFU Chief Financial experience in financial roles at the accountancy
Officer and a member of the RFU Board in
firm. A former England rugby captain and
April 2018. She is responsible for financial prolific try scorer, Day is also former President
planning, management and reporting, legal of Wasps FC, having played for the club for 14
and governance and technology, reporting years. She was capped 59 times for England,
to CEO Steve Brown. Her previous role was winning three Grand Slams, and also captained
as a deal advisory partner at KPMG. Having the England Sevens team and coached the
been appointed partner in 2015, she worked developmental team. She is a founding trustee
as lead partner on a number of high profile of the Women’s Sports Trust, and has been a
mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance rugby commentator for Sky Sports and
transactions. She is a qualified chartered World Rugby.
accountant and has 20 years’ significant

PHIL A former England captain, Phil de Glanville in 1998. In all Phil won 38 England caps in his
DE GLANVILLE RFU’s Senior Professional Game Board both World Cups in 1995 and 1999. He was
seven years in the England squad, including
joined the Board in August 2018 and is the
representative. He played centre for Durham
Director of Elite Sport at Hartpury College,
and has previously worked at Sport England
University while an Economics and Politics
student and then won a Blue at Oxford, as well
as representing England U21s. He played 189 as Head of Delivery, and then as an NGB
Relationship Manager, being responsible for
times and scored 53 tries for Bath in a 12 year Sport England’s relationships with five national
career with the club which also saw him captain governing bodies, including the RFU. He is now
them to a league and cup double in 1996 , the working as a consultant at the executive search
year he was appointed England captain for firm Hanover Fox where he has been for three
the season. Bath also won the European Cup years, based in Bristol and London.

DEBORAH GRIFFIN OBE Deborah Griffin OBE was appointed the RFU’s 1983, she chaired the organisation of the first
Women’s Rugby World Cup in 1991 in Cardiff.
representative to the World Rugby Council
and relinquished her role as Women & Girls
Returning as Finance Officer to the RFUW in
2002, she subsequently chaired their Board, and
representative on the RFU Council. Having
started playing rugby at University College
London, she captained the first English women’s saw them through to full integration with the
RFU in 2012. The Bursar at Homerton College,
club side at Finchley in its first year and Cambridge University, she is the Cambridge
played for a further seven years at Richmond. University RFU Secretary and was awarded an
A founding member of the Women’s RFU in OBE for services to rugby.
SIMON Simon Massie-Taylor is a member of the senior Olympic Association (BOA) where he was
MASSIE-TAYLOR for all of the RFU’s commercial operations Commercial, for Tough Mudder in New York,
Commercial Director. Before joining the BOA in
leadership team and the RFU Board, reporting
2014, Massie-Taylor was Senior Vice President,
to the RFU’s CEO Steve Brown. Responsible
and revenue-generating activities, his remit
and previously part of the award-winning
includes: sponsorship, commercial partnerships,
commercial team for LOCOG, organisers of the
broadcast agreements, ticketing, stadium
Games. His previous roles include an associate
debenture sales and boxes, hospitality, licensing London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic
and retail operations. Massie-Taylor joined position at the investment bank Rothschild &
the RFU in September 2016 from the British Sons, and accountancy at KPMG in London.
STEPHEN PEARSON The Oxford University representative on the Management and currently their Chief
Investment Officer, he is also an Honorary
RFU Council, Stephen Pearson is Chairman of
fellow of Trinity College Oxford and a three
the Community Game Board’s Rugby Growth
Sub Committee, Chairman of Trustees of
of Oxford University RFC and London
the RFU Pension Fund, and a Trustee of the time Oxford rugby Blue. He is a member
RFU Injured Players Foundation. A former Scottish RFC.
Fund Management Director of Jupiter Asset

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