Everton Football Club
Elstone joined Everton as deputy to Keith Wyness in June 2005. As Deputy CEO it was his responsibility to assist in "developing an efficient organisational structure, securing and empowering a strong management team, ensuring appropriate levels of financial reporting and accountability, delivering commercial growth, principally via filling the stadium at higher yields and securing new sponsors". He is responsible for the negotiation of the club's long-standing sponsorship deal with Chang.
He was appointed as Acting Chief Executive Officer on 5 August 2008 following the resignation of Wyness. On 22 January 2009 he was appointed as CEO on a permanent basis. Upon his appointment he said: "This is a big job - one of the biggest in world football - but I can promise all Evertonians that I will work tirelessly for the cause."
He courted controversy in January 2009 when he publicly suggested that Liverpool City Council's reasons for rejecting a planning application on the site of Bellefield was a "political decision", inferring that the council rejected the application so that Everton could not afford to relocate to a neighbouring borough.
On 18 February 2009 he told listeners of the local radio station BBC Radio Merseyside that Goodison Park was "one of the worst stadiums in the country" and critics accused of him of 'doing a Ratner'.
| Business positions | ||
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| Preceded by Keith Wyness |
CEO of Everton F.C. 2008–Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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