Everton have made Denise Barrett-Baxendale to the latest addition to the club’s board of directors.
Barrett-Baxendale is a familiar face around Goodison Park, having worked in various executive roles since 2010 including her current positions as the Blues’ deputy chief executive and head of Everton in the Community.
She joins the chairman Bill Kenwright, deputy chairman Jon Woods, chief executive Robert Elstone and Sasha Ryzantsev, majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri’s boardroom representative, as part of the new-look Everton hierarchy.
She aid: “I am so proud to have been invited to join the club’s board and I am very grateful to Mr Kenwright and Mr Moshiri for giving me the opportunity to help achieve the owners’ and Directors’ ambition for Everton.
“This is something I am really excited by and a responsibility I take very seriously.
“There is so much we want to do to take this great club forward and I am confident that through the board’s ambition and the talent within our Senior Executive Team we can make positive progress very quickly.”