Keith Harris is Chairman of The Football League in England. He has a particular expertise in the football industry and he has been a business consultant to a number of leading football clubs in the United Kingdom.

Keith Harris has a first class degree in Business Economics and a PhD in Economics and has worked in global investment banking for more than twenty years. He has extensive international experience in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, fund-raisings and securities, having previously worked in senior executive positions at Morgan Grenfell, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Apax and Co.

He is currently Executive Chairman of Seymour Pierce Group plc and holds a number of other non-executive directorships, having left his role as Chief Executive of HSBC Investment Banking plc in order to develop a new range of businesses in the sports and media sectors.

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John Aumonier has worked in the commercial radio industry for more than twenty-five years. He founded Radio First plc in 1995, and has been the Chief Executive of the company since that date.

John Aumonier is an innovator. He has a successful track record in radio, sales and marketing, and general management. He was the founding Managing Director of Radio Mercury in Surrey and Sussex, progressing after several years to become the first Managing Director of Virgin Radio, the national rock station. He was also the founding Managing Director of Talk Radio, leading the company's successful licence application, fund-raising and launch.

During his early years in commercial radio, John Aumonier was employed principally as a regional sales manager by the two leading radio sales houses. Based in London and Manchester, he managed sales teams and developed sponsorship campaigns for several of the United Kingdom's leading companies and advertising agencies.

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Rory McLeod has also worked in the United Kingdom's commercial radio industry for more than twenty-five years. His experience has been mainly in programming, sports broadcasting, and general management. He managed many successful station launches, and was managing director of Southern Radio plc, a publicly quoted group of top-rating radio stations in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire. All his stations won awards for programming, news, promotions and community involvement.

Most recently, Rory McLeod led the successful application by Beat FM 106 Limited for the Central Scotland analogue radio licence. He remained as a non-executive director in order to assist the station management, and then, at the board's request, managed the disposal of the company to Capital Radio. He also assisted in the successful launch of Kingdom FM in Fife.

Rory McLeod has been a non-executive director of the Radio Advertising Bureau, Independent Radio News Limited and the Association of Independent Radio Contractors, the commercial radio operators' trade organisation. Rory McLeod became Managing Director of Radio First plc in May 1999, having worked for the company as a consultant for two years.

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Bruce Morrison joined Radio First in January 2000 as Finance Director and Company Secretary.

Until April 1999 Bruce Morrison was Finance Director of Wembley Stadium Limited, the company that owned and operated the Wembley complex, including the stadium, the arena and the conference and exhibitions centre. He resigned as a director following the successful completion of the sale of the stadium to Wembley National Stadium Limited, a subsidiary of the Football Association.

Prior to joining Wembley Stadium Limited, Bruce was an audit manager at KPMG, having trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with the same firm.

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Peter Ross has been a director of Radio First since the company's inception in 1995, having previously served as chairman.

Peter Ross is a chartered surveyor and a partner in Vail Williams, the commercial and industrial property agents. He started his career at Healey and Baker before joining the Taylor Woodrow Property Company. He then moved to Stiles Harold Wiliams and, subsequently, was closely involved in the sale of the company to the Alliance and Leicester Building Society. Following the sale, Peter became managing director and deputy chairman of Stiles Harold Williams.

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