Staff

ICC Executive and Management Team - An Introduction

The ICC is fortunate in that it is able to recruit quality staff from across the world. The Dubai office comprises around 70 people with another 70 more people across the world involved in global cricket operations covering:

• administration and regulation,
• commercial activities and event management,
• promotion and development of the game; and
• integrity of the game.

Haroon Lorgat
ICC Chief Executive Officer

Born in South Africa, Haroon graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and then trained with a Big Four accountancy firm to qualify as a Chartered Accountant in 1985.

He worked briefly in management at IBM before setting up his own professional services firm. Through a series of mergers spanning almost 15 years, Haroon built a large independent firm before successfully leading a merger with Ernst & Young. He was immediately appointed as Managing Partner for Ernst & Young Western Cape and served on the firm's national executive committee before leaving in 2007 to establish a private equity business. He was head hunted by the ICC to become only the third chief executive in its 99-year history, taking office in June 2008.

As a leading cricket all-rounder in South Africa, he played in 76 first-class games however, having grown up during the apartheid era, he was never entitled to represent his country at the international level.

In the past ten years, Haroon served in various capacities in South African cricket, including as Chairman of Western Province Professional Cricket and as a non-executive Board member for the Western Province Cricket Association. At the national level, he served as a national selector, as a non-executive director for Cricket South Africa overseeing finance, and from 2004-2007, he successfully served as Chairman of the National Selectors for the South Africa cricket team.

He is married to Farah and they have a son and daughter living in their family home in Cape Town. He enjoys golf, travel and meeting interesting people.

David Richardson
General Manager - Cricket

Former South African Test wicket-keeper David Richardson was appointed the ICC's first General Manager of Cricket in January 2002. David played 42 Test matches, taking 152 dismissals. On retiring from international cricket in 1998, David, a qualified lawyer, maintained close contact with the game as both a Business Director with Octagon SA, the company responsible for negotiating player employment contracts with the United Cricket Board of South Africa, and as a media commentator. He relocated to Dubai when the ICC moved in August 2005 and apart from an occasional game of golf and an even more occasional game of cricket, David's focus has turned to following the sporting careers of his sons.



Campbell Jamieson
General Manager - Commercial

Campbell Jamieson has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in cricket administration, both at a national and international level. As an employee of the Australian Cricket Board for seven years from 1989, he was seconded to the ICC for one year as Executive Assistant and Events Manager in 1996 - he shows no sign of returning and was appointed to the important role of Commercial Manager in 2001. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and played grade cricket in Australia for Melbourne and North Melbourne. On the rare occasions when he is not traveling on ICC business, Campbell lives in Dubai.



Faisal Hasnain
Chief Financial Officer

Faisal Hasnain completed his early education in Pakistan prior to qualifying from the UK as a Chartered Accountant. Over a 25 year career in finance and administration, Faisal has held senior management positions with Ernst & Young, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citigroup, ICC and the Government of Dubai. Faisal, who has worked in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK, Monaco and Dubai, left the ICC in 2008 and rejoined the organisation in 2010. Apart from cricket, his other interests include reading and chess.



Colin Gibson
Head of Media and Communications

Colin Gibson took up the role of ICC Head of Media and Communications in February 2010 after previously working as the Head of Corporate Communications at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). He has also worked as Director of Communications at the Football Association in England. Gibson was previously a sports journalist having held the position of chief sports writer for the Daily Telegraph in London before becoming sports editor of the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail in London. He has also worked as assistant editor of The Australian in Sydney.


Jon Long
Head of Executive Programmes

As the Head of Executive Programmes, Jon Long has senior management responsibility for marketing and strategy at the ICC and plays a lead role in many of the organisation's key initiatives. In over eight years at the ICC he has been deeply involved in the development, launch, management and promotion of a wide spectrum of activities in men's and women's international cricket ranging from elite events, rankings and awards to grassroots tournaments, education and social programmes. As well as managing media operations and promotional activity for ICC events across five continents, he has worked on both the Commonwealth and Olympic Games and has experience working with many other sports including football, tennis, cycling, surfing, archery and boules. Recent projects have included supporting Task Teams for both Pakistan and Zimbabwe, integrating cricket into the Olympic Movement and coordinating the planning process for the ICC Strategic Plan 2011-15. A Law with European Law graduate from the University of Nottingham, Jon is currently studying for an MBA. He lives in Dubai with his young family and, when time permits, continues to combine enthusiastic participation in several mainstream sports with unsuccessful attempts to find an obscure sport in which he excels.

Yogendra Pal Singh
Head of ACSU

Yogendra Pal Singh took over from Ravi Sawani in June 2011, who retired from that full-time post after holding it since November 2007. YP started his career in 1981 and is qualified with BA (Hons), LLB. Mr Singh, from New Delhi in India, served for 30 years in the Indian Police Service including several years with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

In the latter organisation, as joint-director in charge of anti-corruption, he was involved in the investigation of corrupt practices, particularly in Mumbai and New Delhi. Among Mr Singh's other professional accomplishments, he spent five years from 2002 until 2006 as the Inspector General of Police at the Police Academy and of the Provincial Armed Constabulary in Moradabad and previously he was Deputy Inspector General of Police at the CBI from 1998 to 2002.

Iain Higgins
Acting Head of Legal and Company Secretary

After graduating from Cambridge University, Iain played professional rugby league in the Super League, obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Law from King's College, London and co-founded a player representation business before eventually moving into private practice as a specialist sports lawyer with leading London-based firms Hammonds and Bird & Bird. During that time, Iain advised governing bodies (such as UEFA, Six Nations Committee, British Lions, the ITF and the RFL), clubs, sponsors and broadcasters on a wide-range of commercial, regulatory and dispute-resolution matters and gained recognition in the 2009 Chambers legal directory as "one of the most notable lawyers from [Bird & Bird's] new generation of sports lawyers". Iain has accumulated significant knowledge and experience in specialist regulatory areas such as discipline, doping and corruption and he has written chapters in the leading sports law textbook "Sport: Law & Practice:. He remains a passionate and competitive participant and spectator of all sports.

Tim Anderson
Global Development Manager

Tim started his ICC career in 2000 as a Development Officer in the East Asia - Pacific Region based in Melbourne. After becoming the Region's Development Manager in 2004, then moving to Dubai as ICC's Development Programmes Manager in 2006, he was appointed to the role of Global Development Manager in 2011. Playing and coaching cricket were key themes in Tim's life before joining the ICC. He captained the Australian U/19 team at the 1998 Youth World Cup, then became a scholar at the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy under Rod Marsh. Tim has a Bachelor of Business Administration, and enjoys playing golf and supporting the Geelong Cats in the Australian Football League (AFL). He lives in Dubai with his wife and daughter.