Chris trained as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse and subsequently studied for an MBA from one of Europe's leading business schools. He worked in a number of different senior financial roles related to the construction sector including a lengthy spell of expatriation in France. He joined Chelsea FC as finance director in early 2003 shortly before it was taken over by Mr Abramovich.

1981 - 2007 Metropolitan Police Service, London
1997 - 2007 UK Hostage Negotiator
1999 Graduate of the FBI National Academy Course, Quantico, USA.

2001-2003
Head of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, New Scotland Yard.
Director of the United Kingdom National Hostage Negotiator Course.

2004-2007
Senior Investigating Officer - conspiracy allegations surrounding the deaths of Diana, the Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed.

Operational Head of the Stevens Inquiry into Terrorist Offences in Northern Ireland.

2007 - Awarded the Queens Police Medal (QPM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to hostage negotiation.

2007- present - Chair of the Darts Regulation Authority

2010 - Chair of the Disciplinary Committee of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.

Current - Independent Security Consultant

Michael has spent the last four years working in anti-doping having joined UK Sport in 2006 before moving over to UK Anti-Doping was formed in December 2009. In March this year he was appointed as the Head of Science and Medicine.

In this time he has led on a number of organisation initiatives including a full steroid profiling programme, a blood profiling programme, supporting the GH-2004 research team in establishing a new Growth Hormone test and supporting the nutritional supplements risk management resulting in HFL’s Informed-Sport.

Prior to this he spent two years in the pharmaceutical industry having been employed by both Gilead Sciences Ltd and GlaxoSmithKline.

Paolo Lombardi is CEO and founder of SportsTeam, a sports advisory business based in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Paolo has recently left FIFA after eight years following the successful completion of the World Cup in South Africa. His responsibilities at FIFA included dealing with international football related matters, such as labour and transfer disputes, players’ agents, disciplinary and doping matters, football governance and ethics related issues. Paolo served as Deputy Head of the Players' Status department prior to taking the position as Head of the FIFA Disciplinary & Governance department, which he held from 2007 to 2010. Paolo was in charge of legal matters at all FIFA World Cups and tournaments, including the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. He was actively involved in the drafting of all FIFA regulations and sat in all FIFA Committee meetings relevant to his position and dealt with many of the leading international football disputes and disciplinary-related issues (among which the Webster case, the Mutu case and the Quest investigation).

From 2000 to 2003 Branco Martins worked as Manager European Affairs for the Dutch employer's organization in Professional Football. During this experience he was project manager for two European Commission funded projects on the promotion of the Social Dialogue in the European Professional Football industry. As a result Roberto joined the Asser International Sports Law Centre from 2003 to 2008.

Roberto has extensive experience in the legal aspects related to the business of international football and has consulted clubs, individual players and their agents, sport associations, national governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission. He lectures labour law and sport at the faculty of law of the University of Amsterdam and is connected to the Edge Hill University Research Centre for Sport and Law. Currently he is involved in research related to the implementation of the European Social Dialogue in professional football.

Roberto has written numerous articles / publications and is a regular speaker at international conferences dealing with international sports (law). He is a member of the Dutch sports lawyers association, the International Sports Lawyers Association, the association for Sport and the EU. Roberto speaks Dutch, English, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French.

As the founder and director of ProAgent which is the Dutch association of FIFA licensed player agents and of the European Football Agents Association (EFAA), Roberto's activities are governed by sports, law and regulation on a daily basis. Currently Roberto is involved in discussions about the future regulation of players' agents. EFAA consists of 15 national agents associations including Argentina and Brazil as associated members, and is the collective voice of the connected agents.

Jacob's practice encompasses a broad range of media litigation, from defamation and privacy to copyright. He acts for both claimants and defendants, and has advised and appeared throughout the process, from pre-publication through to the House of Lords. He also practices in professional discipline and sports law, appearing before domestic disciplinary tribunals and on challenges to their decisions before internal appeal boards, the High Court and the Privy Council.

Partner of CBA Studio Legale e Tributario and co-head of the Firm's international strategic committee. His practice focuses on corporate, media and sports law.

Luca's corporate practice includes international commercial transactions and related litigations. Within the media and sports law practice, Luca Ferrari provides legal advice to celebrities, athletes, agents, coaches, managers, clubs leagues, federations and other sports-business entities. He has published numerous articles on image rights and sports law in Italy, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden and was included in Sport Business International's "World's 20 most influential lawyers" (November 2009). Luca has also been a speaker at several international media and sports law conferences and a lecturer at different Italian Universities.

Philip graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with an LLB (Law) degree in 1996. He joined the Sports Practice of Marsh Ltd, and specialised in Sports Disability & Contingency from 1997. He dealt with the major Sports Disability Accounts for Marsh including within Professional Golf, Football, Formula 1, Tennis, Boxing, and Basketball, and also had responsibility for Contractual Bonus and Prize Indemnity business. Philip joined HCC Specialty in 2005, to write the Sports & Entertainment Disability portfolio in London before taking over the role of running London Operations in 2009.

Adam Lewis QC is a Barrister specialising in public law, EC law and sports law at Blackstone Chambers, London. He regularly advises national and international sports governing bodies, clubs, individual players and commercial partners, and appears on their behalf before the courts and regulatory authorities. Together with Jon Taylor, he edits the text book Sport: Law and Practice, 2^nd edition Tottel, 2008. His leading sports litigation over the last year include:
Mutu v FIFA, FA and Chelsea. Mutu v Switzerland (European Commission complaint and European Court of Human Rights proceedings)
Wen Tong v IJF (CAS)
Essel (Indian Cricket League) v ECB, ICC and BCCI (High Court)
Rio Football Services v Sevilla (Fabiano) (High Court June 2010 and December 2009)
RFU v Venter and Brits (RFU May and 2010)
Appiah v Fenerbahce (CAS 2009/A/1856, April 2010)
Football Agent v The FA (FA Rule K arbitration, February 2010)
Chelsea and Kakuta v Lens and FIFA (CAS 2009/A/1976, February 2010)
Lee Byrne v ERC (ERC Appeal Committee, February 2010)
Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan v IOC (CAS 2009/A/1752, January 2010)
Wasps v Premier Rugby Limited (PRL, December 2009)
ITF and WADA v Richard Gasquet (ITF July 2009, CAS 2009/A/1926 November 2009)
BBC Worldwide v UK Athletics (High Court, November 2009)
Cardiff Blues & Others (Welsh Regions) v WRU (High Court September 2009)
Gibraltar Football Association v UEFA (CAS 2007/O/1237, September 2009)

Aurélien Hamelle is qualified with the Paris Bar. A partner with Metzner Associés since 2009, Aurélien Hamelle specializes in white collar crime, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and regulatory work. Before joining Metzner Associés in 2005, Aurélien Hamelle was an associate in the international dispute resolution department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, both in Paris and in London.

Aurélien Hamelle has trial experience before most French criminal Courts, superior Courts for serious offences or ordinary criminal Courts, as well as Courts of Appeal. He has been involved in a number of multi jurisdiction investigations on behalf of French and foreign clients. He is also the author of an essay on the French criminal justice published in November 2009 and a teacher in the field of money laundering at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Brian regularly appears before sports tribunals and before the Court of Arbitration of Sport, as well as the Court of Appeal and the Court of Justice and General Court of the EU in sports cases. Brian was listed in "The World's 20 Most Influential Sports Lawyers" in SportBusiness International and World Sports Law Report magazine in 2009. Brian has particular expertise in EU law and acted for Chelsea FC in its successful defence of Adrian Mutu's competition law challenge before the CAS in 2009. In 2010 Brian appeared for the UK before the EU General Court in resisting FIFA and UEFA's challenge to the decision to list the entire World Cup and European Championships as events of national importance and therefore free to view on terrestrial television.

As well as a busy criminal practice in serious crime, fraud and corruption, he regularly acts for and advises clubs, sporting bodies and individuals facing regulatory and disciplinary tribunals in the UK, Europe and other foreign jurisdictions. He has huge experience in football and has acted and advised in cases in England and abroad as well as in many other sports including cricket, rugby, athletics, horse racing and motor racing. Notable cases include acting for Wigan FC before CAS in the "Webster" case on the interpretation of Article 17 of FIFA'a statutes, acting for Chelsea FC in the "Ashley Cole tapping up case" and most recently acting for Dan Gosling in his dispute with Everton FC securing the player a declaration that he was entitled to a "free" transfer. Has acted in numerous "training compensation" disputes. Considerable experience of "doping" cases.

Acted for Darren Williams in the Old Bailey trial of Kieran Fallon and others who were all acquitted of conspiring to lose horse races in order to defraud Betfair as well as in numerous other high profile criminal cases. For further details see 2bedfordrow.co.uk where a complete biography is available.

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