Nominations are invited for the positions detailed below, which will be the subject of elections to be held at the Annual General Meeting on 26th October 2024. Posts due for election are listed below together with the intentions of the current holders regarding re-standing.
Members of the Board
President – Dominic Lawson is intending to stand
Chief Executive – Mike Truran is intending to stand*
Director of Finance – Alex Longson is still to confirm if he wishes to continue**
Director of Women’s Chess – Aga Milewska is intending to stand
Director of Junior Chess – Alex Holowczak is intending to stand
Non-Executive Director 3 – Katarzyna Toma is not intending to stand
Other elected posts
Chair of the Council – David Eustace is intending to stand
FIDE Delegate – Malcolm Pein is intending to stand
Chair of the Governance Committee – Robert Stern is intending to stand
Members of the Governance Committee (this Committee has no fixed size) – Mark Murrell is to be nominated by the Chair of Governance
Members of the Finance Committee – Zoe Varney is to be nominated by the Chair of the Finance Committee
Notes
* Mike Truran is standing for election but wishes to stand down in October 2025 after many years of service in this role. The Board will be seeking a suitably qualified successor.
** An update on whether Alex Longson wishes to continue as Finance Director will be published on 9th September.
The rota setting out the positions on the Board that are subject to election in any given year is set out at the end of Regulation No. 2. To be eligible to stand for election, a candidate must be a member of the ECF on the day of the AGM.
Each candidate for a post must be a nominee of the Board or a person proposed by ‘the Requisitionists’ as defined in the Articles (see the website post https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-agm-call-for-motions-3/).
Nominations must be made by Thursday 19th September by sending an email to the Chair of Council – council.chair@englishchess.org.uk – entitled ‘AGM 2024 Nominations’.
By way of departure from existing practice, the AGM agenda will only set out the nominations required to enable a candidate to stand for election. Excess nominations will not be included.
Election Addresses
A duly nominated candidate has the right to have an election address published on the ECF website. The body of the election address must be no more than 750 words in length. All election addresses received by the nomination deadline will be published simultaneously on the website: any election addresses received after the deadline will not be published.
Election addresses are published in PDF format. Addresses submitted in this format will be published as received, preserving any internal formatting. Addresses submitted in other formats, including plain text, will be converted into PDF format (or referred back if the format is not known to us). Exact formatting match cannot in these cases be guaranteed. Revisions to a submitted address will be permitted up to the nomination deadline but must be complete resubmissions – the Chair or ECF staff will not make alterations on behalf of candidates. After the deadline no revised submissions will be accepted, even of a minor nature.
Conduct of Candidates
Candidates are required to comply with the Code of Conduct – Regulation No. 4 – for the election campaign period.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of individual directors are set out in the Directors and Officers Responsibilities Regulations – Regulation No. 2 – which is available on the ECF website. Candidates should note that the Board has the power to amend these Regulations at any time.
— David Eustace, Chair of Council