Aberdeen FC director to step down to go after European aspiration

Aberdeen Football Club has verified that former chief executive, Duncan Fraser, will step down from his function as a Non‐Executive director on 22 July 2020.

 

Duncan, who will likewise depart his function as a Scottish FA Board member on that day, will be taking up a setting as a mentor within UEFA’s Business advancement Programme, UEFA GROW, which provides support to all 55 UEFA member associations.

 

Having trained as a chartered accountant, Duncan joined AFC in 2002, having previously held different treasury as well as senior industrial functions Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Argentina within the oil as well as gas sector. With 20 years‐service at Pittodrie, Duncan assisted to navigate the Club with many difficult times, playing a pivotal function in helping the Dons to get rid of all interior as well as outside financial obligation in 2014. He has likewise served on the Boards of the SPL, SPFL as well as Scottish FA throughout a distinguished career in Scottish football.

 

Commenting on his departure, AFC Chairman, Dave Cormack, said:

I am grateful to Duncan for his time as well as commitment throughout his career at AFC. Duncan has not only provided his proficiency to Aberdeen however in recent times likewise held an important function as a non‐executive director at the Scottish FA. As co‐chair of the medical as well as player welfare committee, his experience has been helpful in enabling us to get back training. We desire him all the best.

 

Former AFC Chairman, Stewart Milne, added:

In the seventeen years Duncan as well as I worked together, his counsel as well as loyalty were unwavering. He assisted the Club accomplish many of our key objectives, eventually playing a central function in negotiating the offer that gotten rid of our debt, something which the Club had been working towards for a number of years.

 

Duncan was candid with me as well as never hid his wish to someday serve the game in a wider capability as well as I am delighted that he can now accomplish that aspiration with UEFA, supporting their 55 national associations as a UEFA grow mentor.

 

Explaining his decision to step down from both the AFC as well as Scottish FA Board, Duncan said:

Throughout my time at the Club I always believed I was in a extremely privileged setting as well as had a obligation to serve as well as provide my full loyalty as well as commitment to Aberdeen.

 

The function of mentoring that I am now pursuing within Camiseta Paris Saint-Germain UEFA will need the exact same absolute dedication. I will be working with UEFA grow with football federations throughout Europe to help in their strategic planning as well as vision going ahead to ensure that we protect the game for future generations in a sustainable way.

 

I would like to take this chance to say thanks to every single member of personnel that I have dealt with over the years, all of whom have been a credit history to the Club. I desire them as well as everybody linked with The Dons all the extremely finest for the future.

 

Source: afc.co.uk

 

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