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20 Jun 2023 - Corporate

IMG’s Whelan takes up Non-Exec Director role with Scottish Rugby

Alexandra is currently Senior Vice-President, Strategy, Growth and Marketing for IMG’s media business, and brings a wealth of experience from the media, strategy and digital sectors to the organisation responsible for rugby union in Scotland. Her appointment closely follows that of John McGuigan who was announced as Scottish Rugby Limited’s new Chair in May. Alexandra […]

9 Jun 2023 - Corporate

New Custodian Directors join the SRU Board

A wide reaching recruitment campaign invited candidates to apply whom had both relevant career/life experience combined with a strong interest, connection, and passion for rugby in Scotland. From the impressive and diverse pool of high calibre candidates that applied, Alison Milne MBE and Maxine Manditsch, were the two candidates invited to join the SRU Custodian […]

17 May 2023 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby appoints new Chair

John brings a wealth of experience from a career leading the design and delivery of excellent customer experience in conjunction with multiple stakeholders. His most recent role was Group Customer Director at Phoenix Group until he retired last year. Prior to that he held senior roles in Telefonica both in the UK and Europe. John […]

11 May 2023 - Corporate

John Jeffrey elected World Rugby Vice-Chair

Hugely respected wealth of experience as a major player in the sport’s administrative structures, the former Scottish Rugby and Six Nations Chairman was the sole candidate for the vacant position. He will serve as Vice-Chair for the remainder of the current term (through to November 2024). Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont led the tributes: “I speak […]

20 Apr 2023 - Corporate

John Jeffrey steps down as Chair of Scottish Rugby LTD

The former international, who played for Scotland between 1984 and 1991 and was a key figure in Scotland’s Five Nations Grand Slam in 1990, has been chair of Scottish Rugby Ltd for three years. On Wednesday night, he informed the board of the Scottish Rugby Union, the custodian body which represents Scottish rugby clubs […]

13 Apr 2023 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby’s John Jeffrey nominated for vacant World Rugby Vice Chair position

World Rugby’s member unions were invited to submit nominations for the position by the closing date of 11 April, 2023, with candidates required to be a current member of the World Rugby Council at the time of their nomination. Jeffrey was proposed and nominated by the Scottish Rugby Union and seconded by South Africa Rugby Union, with […]

6 Mar 2023 - Scotland U20

Super6 set to return as FOSROC Super Series

The new name for the part-time professional league signals a structural change with the addition of new teams into two competitions. Furthermore, title sponsor FOSROC will continue their support of the campaign this year. These additions provide more high-performance focused environments for players and increases high-level performance game time opportunities for the current cohorts of […]

The official handover of the ÒOor DoddieÓ at BT Murrayfield

2 Mar 2023 - Corporate

Scottish Schools squad of ’88 pay tribute to teammate and raise funds for My Name’5 Doddie Foundation

The challenge will see Doddie’s former teammates from the 1988 Scottish Schools tour to New Zealand take on an 88km adventure over two days in the hope of raising £88,000 towards research into MND. On Thursday 16 March the group of 22 former players (plus the original coaching staff) will set off on the 65km […]

20 Dec 2022 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby Union appoints first two Custodians as new governance structure takes shape

Former 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games CEO David Grevemberg CBE and Cheryl Black, an experienced Customer Service Director and Non-Executive Director from the telecoms and digital sector, were selected following an external recruitment process. David and Cheryl will join the Scottish Rugby Union Board in early 2023, and sit alongside its Chair, Professor Lorne Crerar CBE, […]

6 Dec 2022 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby Limited to appoint new Chair in 2023

An extensive recruitment process will begin in the new year for a new Chair of the Scottish Rugby Limited Board, recently renamed followed the conclusion of the governance review. Jeffrey was appointed on a permanent basis in December 2020, after being interim Chair for the preceding six months. His three-year term as Chair of the […]