Board and Officers

ECF Board

President Dominic Lawson Email	Chief Executive Mike Truran Email
Director of Finance Adam Ashton Email	Director of International Chess Malcolm Pein Email
Director of Membership Rob Willmoth Email	Director of Home Chess Nigel Towers Email
Director of Junior Chess & Education Alex Holowczak Email	Director of Women’s Chess Aga Milewska Email
Director of Events Shohreh Bayat Email	Non-Executive Director Stephen Woodhouse Email
Non-Executive Director Natasha Regan Email	Non-Executive Chairman Julian Clissold Email

Officers who are members of Council

Chair of Council Michael Farthing Email	Delegate FIDE Malcolm Pein Email
Chair of Finance Nick Faulks Email	Chair of Governance Robert Stern Email
Past CEO Serving on Council Phil Ehr Email	Past Chair of Council Mike Gunn Email
Trustees of the Permanent Invested Fund Ray B Edwards; Isabel Keen

Direct Members’ Representatives
HLVPs, VPs, CVPs, Honorary Life Members, Life Members Stewart Reuben Email; Gerry Walsh Email	Platinum Members David Eustace Email; Adrian Elwin Email
Gold Members Rob Willmoth Email; Lorin D’Costa Email	Silver Members Tim Wall Email; John Reyes Email
Bronze Members Aga Milewska Email; Chris Skulte Email

Officers Reporting to the Board, President, Chief Executive or Chair of Council

Auditor Watson Associates https://www.watsons.co.uk/ Tel: 01323 842119	Voting Register Officer Michael Farthing Email
Manager of ICT Keith Osborne Email	Manager of Online Chess Nigel Towers Email
Board & Minutes Secretary Danny Rosenbaum Email	Safeguarding Officer Samantha Ali Email
Sport & Recreation Alliance Representative Julian Clissold Email	Office Andrew Walker Email

Officers Reporting to the Director of Women’s Chess

Manager of Female Social Media Vacant Email

Manager of Women’s Online Chess Lawrence Cooper Email

Home Chess Officers

Manager of the British Chess Championships Kevin Staveley Email	Manager of Chess in Prisons Carl Portman Email | Profile [PDF] | Report 2018
Controller of the Grand Prix Vacant Email	Controller, Counties Championship Mark Murrell Email
Chief Arbiter Lara Barnes Email	Manager of Arbiters Ravi Sandhu Email
Manager of Coaches Andrew Martin Email	Manager for Accessible Chess Vacant Email
Manager for Daily Chess Andrew Caswell Email

International Chess Officers

Manager of Senior Chess Stewart Reuben Email

Manager of Sponsorship for International Chess Satish Gaekwad Email

Membership Officers

Manager of Rating Brian Valentine Email	Rating Administrator Matthew Carr Email
Rating Website Officer Jon Griffith Email	International Rating Officer David Clayton * Email

Junior Chess and Education Officers

ECF Chess Academy Team – Alex Holowczak, Sarah Longson, Alex Longson Email

Manager of Schools Chess – Phillip Beckett Email

National Secondary Schools Co-ordinator – Neill Cooper Email

Deputy National Secondary Schools Co-ordinator – Phillip Beckett Email

National Primary Schools Co-ordinator – Julian Clissold Email

Manager, Certificate of Excellence – Peter Turner Email

Publicity Officers

Publicity Officer Mark Rivlin Email

ChessMoves Editor, Social Media Manager & Deputy Webmaster Danny Rosenbaum Email

Committees

International Selection Committee
Malcolm Pein (Chair), David Openshaw, Jonathan Parker, Natasha Regan, Jonathan Speelman, William Watson

International Senior Selection Committee
Stewart Reuben (Chair), Keith Arkell, Paul Littlewood, Nigel Povah

Finance Committee
Nick Faulks (Chair), Ray Clark, David Eustace, and ex officio, the President and, by invitation, the Auditor

Governance Committee
Robert Stern (Chair), Michael Farthing, Mike Gunn, Stephen Greep and ex officio, the President

Awards Committee – Stephen Greep (Chair), Julie Denning, Ameet Ghasi, Sarah Longson, Natasha Regan, Jack Rudd and ex officio, the Director of Home Chess

Book of the Year – Ray Edwards (Chair), Jovanka Houska, Sean Marsh

Ex-officio Trustees of the Chess Trust
Mike Truran, Adam Ashton (both as above)

To read the Directors and Officers Responsibilities Regulations – click here

* images by John Saunders