Keith Wyness was born on 26 October 1958 and is a Scottish businessman and football executive, most recently he was the Chief Executive of Aston Villa football club.
22 Facts About Keith Wyness
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Keith Wyness previously held the same position at Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen and later Premier League club Everton during the 2000s.
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Keith Wyness was instrumental in the development of the "Executive Club" frequent flyer programme.
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Keith Wyness moved to Miami in 1984 and co-founded Radisson Diamond with Christian Aspegren and Offe Nyblin.
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Keith Wyness was heavily involved with marketing for the cruise lines and was later involved with the attempted and aborted takeover of Cunard.
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Keith Wyness was then the founder and later the managing director of The Olympic Club, a worldwide marketing programme set up to promote every Olympic sport, and aided the marketing of the sports involved in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
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Keith Wyness appeared on the University of Nottingham team for University Challenge winning two games before losing to a Belfast team in the third.
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On 22 October 2000, Keith Wyness moved back to his home town of Aberdeen when he was appointed chief executive of Aberdeen FC Despite the Scottish Premier League's television rights deal with Sky Sports ending soon after he arrived, Keith Wyness was able to reduce the losses sustained by the club and when he left the club was close to operational break even.
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Keith Wyness introduced radical new player contracts with lower basic wages but big bonuses for points, attendance and even for merchandise sales, attracting media attention throughout Europe.
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Keith Wyness left Aberdeen in 2004 to take a similar position at Everton.
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Keith Wyness was the main power behind the development of Finch Farm; he sourced the finance and the design for Everton's new training facility, which opened in November 2007.
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Keith Wyness was responsible for coordinating the acquisition of the David France artefacts which together with a donation from the club's collection formed The Everton Collection, regarded as "most important football memorabilia collection in the world" by the auctioneers Sotheby's.
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Keith Wyness was CEO of Insite Consulting Ltd, an international consulting business.
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Keith Wyness is involved in several major property development sin the NW as part of the Northern Powerhouse project and in the London area with a major mixed use development in Greenwich.
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Keith Wyness was Non executive Director of De Poel Ltd and appointed after an extensive search.
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Keith Wyness was appointed as CEO by the new owner of Aston Villa Tony Xia in June 2016.
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On 2 June 2017 Keith Wyness was banned from all football-related activity for three weeks after FA acted over an offensive post.
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On 5 June 2018, Keith Wyness was suspended by Aston Villa with "immediate effect" in a club statement and left the club later that summer.
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On 28 May 2019, after Aston Villa had achieved promotion to the Premier League, Keith Wyness publicly called Xia, who was celebrating the victory, a "fraud".
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In June 2019, Keith Wyness attempted to sue Dr Tony Xia, but was unsuccessful, after a judge ruled that any attempt at legal action would be prejudiced against Xia due to the financial and time costs he would incur defending himself.
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On 18 October 2019, amidst rumours that former Aston Villa owner Tony Xia had a warrant out for his arrest, Keith Wyness tweeted; "karma is a bitch".
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Tony Xia responded by accusing Keith Wyness of attempting to force Aston Villa into administration, and a subsequent 12-point deduction, whilst asking for extra payment himself, during their time at the helm.