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New York Times
02-06-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Aston Villa confirm ex-Juventus exec Francesco Calvo as president of business operations
Aston Villa have confirmed the appointment of Francesco Calvo as president of business operations. The Athletic revealed in April that Calvo's predecessor, Chris Heck, was leaving the club at the end of the season. Heck officially left his role at the end of May. Calvo, meanwhile, is set to join in July and will be responsible for leading the club's off the field commercial and business strategy, and tasked with increasing the club's overall revenue. Advertisement Calvo joins Villa after resigning from his position as chief football officer at Juventus in May, having first joined the Italian club in 2011 as commercial director before being promoted to chief revenue officer in 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he held the same position at Barcelona but then moved to Roma, where he briefly worked with Villa's president of football operations, Monchi. The pair will reunite in the Midlands and enjoy a strong working relationship. Calvo's experience across some of Europe's biggest clubs appealed to Villa, alongside his strong track record for working with fanbases. The aim is to build a stronger relationship between the football and business departments. 'It is a great honour for me to join this club at such an exciting time,' Calvo said. 'Everyone in football knows the history of and passionate support for Aston Villa. 'In the past few years, we've seen this begin to be matched by success on the pitch and progress off it under the ambitious ownership of V Sports. I look forward to working with the chairman, the board, Unai Emery and everyone at Aston Villa to continue driving this great institution forward.' ()
Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Nationals see two key exits on business side of organization
Two members of the Washington Nationals' business operation, Mike Carney and Kim Bolt, left the organization earlier this month, according to four people familiar with their departures. Carney served as the team's chief revenue officer and Bolt was its chief marketing officer. A Nationals spokesperson declined to comment on the departures, saying the team doesn't discuss personnel matters. It's unclear when or if the Nationals intend to fill these roles.
Irish Times
13-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Republic's complex regulatory framework stunting growth, say companies
Irish companies are finding the complexity of the regulatory framework here much more challenging than companies globally, and this is having a significant impact on business operations, according to a new report. The report by PwC on trends in compliance, which surveyed 1,802 executives across 63 territories, including 32 respondents in the State, suggests that regulatory complexity is making effective compliance much more challenging here. Some 97 per cent of Irish respondents said their organisation's compliance requirements have become more complex in the past three years, higher than global counterparts (85 per cent). Regulatory complexity is the main reason making effective compliance more challenging and is much more pronounced in Ireland, where it is an issue for 78 per cent of companies, as opposed to 47 per cent globally. READ MORE Resource capacity is also fuelling compliance effectiveness challenges more widely in the Republic, where 53 per cent of companies cited it as a problem as against 28 per cent of companies globally. Nearly three-quarters of Irish respondents – in line with global numbers – said the increasing complexity was stunting key growth areas such as profitability, market expansion, new products and services, artificial intelligence (AI), and resource capacity. On AI, while Irish firms are increasingly using technology to automate and optimise compliance activities, they lag global counterparts on AI adoption. Just 12 per cent of Irish companies are either piloting or already using AI across a wide range of business areas – such as in predictive analytics, fraud detection and investigations – compared to more than double that for global counterparts (29 per cent). The complexity of data across the organisation (63 per cent) and lack of technology tools (50 per cent) are the key challenges holding up the use of data to support compliance activities here, although these figures are largely in line with global companies. Will DoorDash takeover of Deliveroo mean better pay and conditions for gig economy workers? Listen | 28:33 The report noted fewer than a quarter (23 per cent) of Irish companies are planning to invest more in technology to optimise compliance activities, behind global counterparts (34 per cent). In addition, the report said fraud risks are the top priority for compliance functions in the Republic. Some 44 per cent of Irish respondents cited anti-bribery or anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and other fraud risks as the top priority for compliance, far in advance of global counterparts (25 per cent). Another four in 10 Irish companies ranked consumer protection as the top priority, much higher than global counterparts (9 per cent). PwC said this disparity likely reflects the publication of the State's revised Consumer Protection Code.
