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Cardinal Football Group LLC completes acquisition of majority stake in Woking Football Club

7:00pm, Mon 3rd Feb 2025
Woking Football Club is pleased to confirm that Cardinal Football Group LLC, led by Todd Johnson, has completed its acquisition of a majority stake of Woking FC.

As part of the transition, three new members have been appointed to the Woking FC Board of Directors.

Dean Curtis

Dean Curtis is CEO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group Data Services, a division of RELX Group (Currently 5th in FTSE 100). Before joining RELX in January 2014, Dean was Global Business Director at Thomson Reuters and Managing Director at Wolters Kluwer where he scaled international businesses. Prior to this, Dean worked in Asset Management and Private Client businesses at Investec, HSBC Investment Bank and Rothschilds along with stints in Private Equity. Dean also has a football background, having worked for Tottenham and two other Premier League Clubs, as well as a number of non-league clubs in a coaching capacity. He is married to Melissa with 3 children.

Kathryn Swallow

Kathryn is Global Brand Vice President at Unilever. Kath has spent 24 years building and scaling powerful global brands such as Dove and Rexona (aka Sure and Degree). She has a successful international track record of delivering consistent, profitable, and competitive business growth through the creation of thought leading visions and strategy, marketing leading innovation, and bold, multi-channel, award winning engagement programmes. She has been responsible for many sports and music partnerships for Unilever brands such as FIFA, UEFA, Man City and multiple dance names globally. A firm belief that fired up, passionate, diverse teams that work collaboratively can truly change the world.

Steven Batchelor

Steven has spent the last 25 years working in financial services. This was initially for a global Investment Bank and now for over 20 years at a leading Private Equity Firm, where he continues to sit on the main Board, as part of the firm’s Senior Leadership Team. Steven has lived in Woking itself for 20 years and been based in the local area all of his life. Steven and his wife, Rebecca, have two boys, who are also football mad.

The three new board members will join existing board members, Todd Johnson, Drew Volpe, Emanuele Palladino and George Burnett, the Cardinal Trust representative. The Club also extends its thanks and gratitude for the dedication of departing board members John Katz, Gareth Farrell, and Dave Curtis, who is departing the Club after years of service across various roles, and we wish him the best in all of his future endeavours.

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