New board personnel information/history. Not my work, stolen from elsewhere.
Andrew Cavenagh
Andrew Cavenagh is the Chairman of Rangers Football Club and a successful entrepreneur, chief executive, and investor with decades of business experience. In 2025, he led the investment consortium that acquired a controlling stake in Rangers and injected additional capital into the club.
Having spent most of his career in the insurance industry, Cavenagh’s leadership and innovative mindset has enabled him to reshape the health insurance landscape. He has founded three insurance companies, including ParetoHealth, which he started in 2011 and has since grown into a transformative company whose clients insure over 1 million people. He currently serves as Executive Chairman of ParetoHealth after serving as the company’s CEO for 14 years.
As a founder and innovator, Cavenagh has decades of experience raising capital and strategically allocating it to build and sustain successful business models. Equally important, he has a proven track record of developing talent by empowering the right people in the right roles to drive results.
A life-long football fan, Cavenagh has always relished the opportunity to attend matches to experience in-person the passion and incredible atmosphere that supporters bring to the game. He has attended multiple World Cup and European Championships, along with countless club matches. Ultimately, it was Ibrox and the Rangers supporters that drew him to invest in the club.
Cavenagh graduated with a degree in economics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he also had a four-year collegiate football career as an award-winning goalkeeper and captain.
While he makes frequent trips to Glasgow, his permanent residence is in Pennsylvania with his family.
Paraag Marathe
Paraag Marathe currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board at Rangers Football Club.
As a long-time sports industry executive, Marathe has played a key role in guiding multiple sports teams to achieve their goals, both on and off the field of play.
As Leeds United Chairman, Marathe oversees the Club’s leadership team and their management of all operations. In his first two seasons as Chairman, the Club earned a record number of points in both seasons, the EFL Championship Trophy, and promotion back to the Premier League. Before 49ers Enterprises acquired full ownership of Leeds in 2023, Marathe served as the Club’s Vice Chairman for over two years and as a member of the Board for over five.
Marathe’s sports career began with the San Francisco 49ers, where he currently serves as both President of 49ers Enterprises and Executive Vice President of Football Operations. From starting as an entry-level employee for the NFL franchise, Marathe has risen to his current long-respected role as the team’s chief contract negotiator and salary cap architect, while overseeing the team’s football analytics department, among other football duties.
As 49ers team President from 2014-16 and Chief Operating Officer from 2010-13, Marathe took on the added responsibility of overseeing the development of Levi’s Stadium as a leading sports and entertainment venue and helped bring to life the vision of an unparalleled fan experience.
In 2024 Marathe joined the board of the NFL UK Foundation, the charitable arm of the NFL within the UK, where he is spearheading a youth empowerment initiative between the NFL UK Foundation, 49ers, and Leeds United.
With sporting roles and passions across the globe, Marathe splits his time between Glasgow, Leeds, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Fraser Thornton
Fraser has held many senior leadership and board positions throughout his career, in both private and public companies. Having worked in the international drinks industry for the last 30 years, he offers a vast range of experience in stakeholder engagement; spanning political, commercial and public interest groups. He has extensive management experience across sales, brand marketing, strategy development and finance. Raised in Glasgow, Fraser graduated from the University of Stirling before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in Glasgow in 1993.
Between 1996 and 2021, Fraser held multiple executive leadership positions in international businesses working across several regions of the world. He was a council member of the Scotch Whisky Association for 15 years until 2021. Since 2021 Fraser has built a portfolio of non-executive roles across the Scottish corporate landscape.
PATRICK STEWART
Patrick Stewart is the Chief Executive of Rangers and has over three decades of experience in the sports, entertainment and legal industries.
He started his career as a commercial lawyer in Scotland, before joining TEAM Marketing in 2001. After five years living and working in Switzerland, Patrick went on to enjoy an 18-year career at Manchester United, during which time he was the club’s General Counsel, before being promoted to the football club board and then becoming a director of Manchester United plc and latterly the club’s CEO. Patrick joined Rangers FC in December 2024.
Throughout his career, Patrick has served on numerous industry groups including The FA’s CEO Advisory Group for the Women's Professional Leagues, the Premier League’s Financial Controls Advisory Group, Agents Working Group, Medical Working Group & Legal Advisory Group, the Scottish FA’s Professional Game Board and the European Club Association’s Transfer System Expert Group & Legal & Regulatory Working Group. Patrick is also an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
John Halsted
John Halsted, an American investor, has over 30 years of private equity experience. Currently based in Wyoming, his business interests span the United States and Europe. He was a founding partner of Pamplona Capital Partners, leading the firm to excel in global investment activities across sectors such as life sciences, energy, industrial, technology, and retail.
Over his 20-year tenure there, he held pivotal roles, including Chief Investment Officer, President, and Managing Partner. Prior to forming his company, he worked as an investment executive at Beacon Capital Partners and the Harvard Private Equity Group, an investment arm of the Harvard University Endowment.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. In 2021, he became an investor in Rangers through his family's holding company, Perron Investments, LLC.
George Taylor
George Taylor is a British investment banker and, since 2022, a non-executive director of Rangers International Football Club PLC (RIFC), the holding company of Rangers Football Club. Born in Glasgow, he has been a prominent figure in the financial sector, particularly in Asia, and has played a significant role in the club's financial restructuring and governance.
Taylor's career in investment banking has been distinguished, with a significant tenure at Morgan Stanley, having joined in 2001 and currently serves as the head of Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and Board Member of the Asian Private Bank. George has an undergraduate degree in Geography from Durham University and a post graduate degree from Cambridge University in International Relations. He currently resides in Hong Kong.
Eugene Schneur
Gene is currently the Managing Director and Co-Founder of SBV RE Investments LLC, a real estate company focused on multi-family housing. From 2004 until its sale in 2023, Gene was the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Omni New York LLC and Omni America LLC, one of the top affordable housing developers in the country. Under his leadership, Omni grew into a full-service real estate organisation with over 800 full-time employees and acquired or developed 94 properties totalling more than 19,000 units of affordable housing, with a total transaction value of over $4 billion. Prior to founding Omni, Gene was a Mergers and Acquisitions attorney with Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP in New York.
Gene holds a degree from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations, a J. D. from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, and is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
Gene and his family currently reside in Miami, Florida and are supporters of numerous nonprofits and charitable organisations.
Gene is a Board Member and Co-Owner of Leeds United FC.
Andrew Clayton
Andrew Clayton is a Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of ParetoHealth, a Philadelphia based health insurance solution company. Throughout his nearly 30-year career, Andrew has led growth and strategy efforts for industry leading insurance and risk management companies.
Andrew serves on numerous business and philanthropic boards and committees, and has a degree in economics from Swarthmore College.
Mark Taber
Mark Taber is a managing director and member of the executive and investment committees at Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm, where he is responsible for transaction origination, investment policy, fundraising, investor relations, and general management of the firm. Mark focuses on healthcare and is a current or former board member of over a dozen healthcare companies, spanning the spectrum of payer, provider, pharmacy and medical devices.
Additionally, he is a member of the board of trustees for Boston Medical Center’s HealthNet health plan and a member of the finance committee at BMC. Mark graduated from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar and the Jim Packard Memorial Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in public policy from Duke University.
