ABOUT US

Khilna is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of financial and commercial experience in the corporate sector. She began her career at KPMG, where she worked with corporates globally and also set up and led a sustainable offshore practice in India. Later, she became part of the Senior Management Team of one of the largest private companies in the UK. Khilna is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a First-Class Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Passionate about the physical and mental benefits of sport, Khilna grew up in a football-mad household with two brothers and competed in various racquet sports. She is committed to promoting inclusivity in sports and tackling inequalities at all levels. Khilna, a Wembley resident, actively volunteers in numerous roles. She is Vice-Chair and Governor of a secondary school and a Trustee of the National Football Trust, which manages football hubs across the UK to promote community participation in healthy recreation. She also serves as an ambassador for Action on Pre-eclampsia, a charity raising awareness about pregnancy health.

Highly experienced project manager with a proven background in strategy, collaboration, and programme delivery at Sky. Passionate about the power of sport in communities; Club Captain at Actonians Netball Club, with previous experience as a Trustee at Coventry University Students’ Union.

Ann-Marie has over 20 years of experience working across the legal, criminal justice and community sectors. Ann-Marie as developed and led successful award-winning crime reduction initiatives which has been proven to reduce crime and improve community cohesion and relations. Ann-Marie brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and skills in developing robust impactful relationships within the community and has developed strong working relationships with statutory, voluntary, grassroot and community sectors.

Born and raised in East London, Ann-Marie is very in tune with the local community needs and has developed robust community strategies to drive positive change and contribute to achieving key objectives, developing proactive policies and strategies, building positive relationships and partnerships to respond to the community need and drive a culture of positive change.

Annette Sheridan is an experienced Senior People Leader at Morrison Foerster based in London, driving strategic HR initiatives with over 25 years of expertise across professional services and technology sectors. Previously serving as global CHRO and London COO for Mayer Brown.

Bob has a wealth of leadership experience in Music and Sport, having worked as a Head of Sport at the BBC and then as the Director of BBC Radio and BBC Music. A former Controller of both Radio 5 Live and also BBC Radio 2 and 6Music, Bob has extensive experience of working with Wembley stadium across a range of events in a variety of capacities. 

Bob is Currently a council member of The Royal Albert Hall and the Chair of Help Musicians and was a former Vice Chair of BBC Children in Need. 

Extensive experience within elite sport and the football development pathway including 6 years within a leadership position at the Premier League Football Development department. Alongside previous roles as a teacher, Director of Sport, Head of Sixth Form and Senior Leader coupled with experience as a professional footballer.

Over 10 years’ experience within the sports industry, 7 of these with The FA. Vast knowledge of the requirements for the local community of Brent and wider impact that Wembley Stadium has on the community. High level experience in dealing with Government, Senior Management Stakeholders and Clubs.

John is the Managing Director of the UIM E1 World Championship, the world’s first all-electric race-boat series. He oversees the strategic, financial, and commercial scaling of the sustainable motorsport startup as it expands its global race calendar and high-profile celebrity team ownership. With a strong background in sports business and finance, John previously spent six years in senior financial roles at The Football Association (The FA) and began his career as an Audit Executive at EY.