On 6 October 2010, Purslow voted in favour of the sale of the club from the unpopular then-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett to the NESV group. Three months into his tenure, a team headed by Purslow negotiated an £80 million 4-year shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered Bank. Purslow was appointed managing director of Liverpool Football Club in June 2009, with a priority to renegotiate the £350m loan the club had outstanding with RBS and to assume overall management of the club until a new permanent CEO could be appointed. It was while in this position, that DB Capital Partners was spun-out, in which he became managing director of new private equity firm, MidOcean Partners. He then joined Schroders Salomon Smith Barney as head of cable, media and entertainment investment, before becoming managing director of DB Capital Partners.
After becoming head of new business development for Reuters, he joined Credit Suisse First Boston as head of UK mergers and acquisitions. Consulting, before joining the Burton Group as executive assistant to the CEO. Purslow trained as an analyst with L.E.K. He later earned an MBA at Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar, finishing in the top five percent of his class. Early life Īfter attending Aylesbury Grammar School, he went on to graduate with a degree in modern and medieval languages at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
He was the co-founder of private equity firm MidOcean Partners and was the former managing director of Liverpool Football Club and the former managing director and head of global commercial activities at Chelsea Football Club. Former managing director of Liverpool F.C.įormer head of global commercial activities at Chelsea F.C.Ĭhristian Purslow (born 14 December 1963) is a British businessman who is the chief executive officer of the Premier League club Aston Villa Football Club.
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