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I am a director of Engagesport LLP, a sports management business established in the summer of 2012 in partnership with a leading regional law practice, Geldards LLP. The company delivers business solutions and management in sport to brands, rights-holders and athletes. I was the Chief Executive of Cardiff RFC and latterly Cardiff Blues from 2001 until December 2011 and played a key role in the establishment of the Blues in 2003, as part of the major changes brought about by the regionalisation of the national sport in Wales. The team was crowned EDF Energy Anglo-Welsh champions in 2009 and Amlin European Challenge Cup champions in 2010. I am a former Welsh international lock forward, and hold 34 caps for Wales and was a British Lions tourist to New Zealand in 1983 and to Australia in 1989. I also regularly represented the Barbarians and finished my playing career representing a World XV against South Africa in Johannesburg in 1989. I was Cardiff RFC captain for two seasons between 1987-89 and briefly for Wales to New Zealand in 1988 and am one of only twenty former Cardiff players in the Arms Park Hall of Fame. Shortly after retiring from the playing field, I was appointed as Honorary Team Manager for the Welsh national side that progressed to win the Five Nations Championship in 1994. Originally a school teacher, throughout the bulk of my playing days and when managing the national team I also worked for both the Xerox Corporation and Lloyds Blackhorse and have nearly 20 years experience of managing financial sales and marketing programmes. I was also a founding board director of the Celtic League and also an elected representative of the Welsh Regions at the board table of the European Rugby Cup on both rugby and commercial matters. I have been the Honorary Regional Chairman of the Wooden Spoon Society in Wales for more than a decade. The Wooden Spoon is a very successful rugby charity that supports disadvantaged children and young people.

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