Basketball England CEO Huw Morgan Steps Down
Basketball England CEO Huw Morgan has stepped down from his role within the National Governing Body, as first reported by MVP’s Mark Woods.
Just 18 months into the job, Morgan’s position became untenable due to his involvement with Bball UK, the private entity that is attempting to channel £36million private investment into the sport beginning with taking over the professional league’s operating license.
Morgan’s departure was imminent, having been removed from any meetings regarding the operating license and the investment since the end of last year after declaring his conflict of interest to the board.
It is believed Morgan sent out a farewell email to staff last week, as he will be reportedly replaced in the interim by Basketball England Director Mark Clark, while Morgan is expected to go and join the three former Basketball England Directors, Ameesh Manek, Andrew Ryan and Rick Boomgaardt working on Bball UK.
As a small update to BBL Insider, understand ex-GB Women’s coach and EB director Mark Clark will be put in interim charge of @bballengland
— Mark Woods (@markbritball) April 7, 2015
More to come.
Do you like our work?
We have a tiny favour to ask. In 2018 we set out to make Hoopsfix sustainable by building our relationship directly with our readers. Up until now, Hoopsfix has been creating editorials, videos and podcasts to provide sorely missing coverage of the British game and its distinct culture and community.
We have funded Hoopsfix with our freelance work creating basketball media, but sadly that means not only does it fall behind our client’s priorities, but some of those clients are the same organisations we need to report objectively on putting us in a conflicted position.
We want to devote more time to our mission of helping British basketball reach its potential, and produce even more content for the basketball community by making Hoopsfix a sustainable 100% independent business funded directly by our readers through Patreon.
If everyone who enjoys our content chose to support us, our future would be much more secure. For as little as $3 per month, you can support Hoopsfix – and it only takes a minute.
We are tremendously honoured and humbled to have a community of people who value what we do, and we look forward to being at the forefront of the British game as it continues to evolve.
1 Comment