Chris Akers (Non-Executive Director)

Chris is Executive Chairman of Sports Resource Group Plc, a sports sponsorship, consultancy and representation business. He was also Executive Chairman of the Extreme Group which runs the Extreme Sports Channel from 2000-2005. In 2002, Akers was voted UK Sports Entrepreneur of the Year at the Sports Industry Awards. He was an executive director of Sports Internet Group, the AIM listed sports and bookmaking group which he founded in March 1999 with £25,000 and subsequently sold in July 2000 to BSkyB for £301m, weeks prior to the infamous dotcom crash.

He was a founder and executive director of InTechnology, one of Europe's leading data storage companies. He was also Chairman and Chief Executive of Leeds Sporting from 1996 to 1998, the holding company for Leeds United Football Club. Prior to that Chris was an investment banker at CIBC, Citicorp and SBC (now UBS). He also currently is an investor in many sports and media companies and sits on the Boards of at least eight companies. Among his many other awards, he is also number 21 on the list of “Top 50 people to know if you really want to make your business big. 

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