Anthony Fry

Chairman
The FA Premier League and Dairy Crest Group plc

Anthony was appointed as Chairman of the FA Premier League and a Board member of the FA in April 2013. He is also the Chairman of Dairy Crest Group plc, having served on the board since July 2007, and since November 2010 of CALA Group. Until March 2011 he was Senior Adviser of Evercore Partners in the firm’s London office. He has previously held senior appointments at Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse and the Rothschild Group in a career in merchant banking which has spanned more than 30 years. In March 2011 he was appointed Chairman of Espirito Santo Investment Bank, where he is now the Senior Adviser to the Board. He is a Non-executive Director of Control Risks and Twig World and will shortly step down as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the BBC Trust, on which he has served since 2008. He has served on the boards of Mowlem, The British Standards Institution and Southern Water as well as numerous not-for-profit organisations and is currently on the advisory boards of both Project Associates and Board Intelligence.

During an 18-year career at The Rothschild Group, Anthony advised governments in the UK, New Zealand and Pakistan on their privatisation programmes, in particular the IPOs in the UK of the 12 regional electricity companies, Southern Water, Rolls Royce and British Steel. In the early 1990s he was responsible for structuring the UK’s National Lottery and ran one of the bids for the first licence in 1994.

From the late 1990s he was the head of Credit Suisse’s global media business where he advised media corporations around the world before moving to head up the London based operations of Lehman Brothers in 2004 where his advisory roles included The London Stock Exchange through 5 takeover bid defences in a period of global consolidation.

Anthony has sat on the Appeals Panel of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers and was appointed by H M Treasury to serve on the appointments panel for the valuers for Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley and Dunfermline Building Society. In addition to his business activities he has sat on numerous not for profit boards including as Vice Chairman of The British Lung Foundation, Tomorrow’s Company, The London Academy of Music and Drama (LAMDA), The Natural History Museum, The Edinburgh International Television Festival, The Sixteen, Paintings in Hospitals, the English National Opera and The National Film and Television School. He is currently Chairman of Development at The School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS).