Simon Paul Clegg CBE was born on 11 August 1959 and is a British sports businessmen.
21 Facts About Simon Clegg
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Simon Clegg has been Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association, a Championship Football Club, Ipswich Town FC and a European Youth Olympic Festival.
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Simon Clegg was Chief Operating Officer of the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku and managed the British Biathlon Team and Team GB athletes at twelve Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
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Simon Clegg was born in Harlington, Middlesex and grew up in Godalming, Surrey and attended Stowe School in Buckingham.
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Simon Clegg spent two years as a trainee Quantity surveyor in Guildford and joined the Parachute Regiment as a territorial soldier.
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Simon Clegg was commissioned in 1981 into the Royal Regiment of Artillery and posted to the 94th Locating Regiment in Celle, West Germany.
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Simon Clegg was nominated by the British Ski Federation to be the British Olympic Association's Team Quartermaster for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Subsequently was asked to manage the sole British ski jumper Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards.
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Simon Clegg undertook a similar role as Team GB's Quartermaster at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.
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On leaving the Army in 1989, Simon Clegg joined the British Olympic Association as Assistant General Secretary becoming Deputy General Secretary two years later and in 1997 became the organisation's first Chief Executive.
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In total, Simon Clegg managed Team GB athletes at twelve Olympic and Olympic Winter Games, six as Team GB's Chef de Mission including Salt Lake City and Beijing.
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Simon Clegg was part of Manchester's failed bids for the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.
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Simon Clegg orchestrated the political and PR campaigns which culminated in the announcement in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister that London would bid for 2012.
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Simon Clegg handed the project over to the bid committee headed up initially by Barbara Cassani and then subsequently Seb Coe.
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Simon Clegg was a board member of the bid, one of three British signatories on the host city contract in Singapore and subsequently a board member of LOCOG until he resigned on leaving the British Olympic Association after the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Simon Clegg was however invited by Lord Coe, the LOCOG Chairman, to retain his position on the LOCOG Sports Advisory Group where he remained until the closing ceremony.
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Simon Clegg was appointed Chief Executive of Ipswich Town in April 2009 replacing Derek Bowden and working directly with the club's owner Marcus Evans.
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Paul Jewell replaced Keane until he resigned in October 2012 whereupon the former Wolves FC manager, Mick McCarthy was appointed with whom Simon Clegg worked until he himself resigned in February 2013.
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From 2007- 2009 Simon Clegg was a member of the Chelsea FC Advisory Board.
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In 2013, Simon Clegg was appointed as the European Olympic Committee's Senior Consultant for the European Games in Baku.
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Simon Clegg led a team of 2,500 full-time staff, supported by 12,000 volunteers, to deliver an event with a global television audience of 823 million households in an unprecedented compressed timescale.
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Simon Clegg was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 for his management of Team GB at the 2000 Olympic Games and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for his contribution to the London Olympic bid.