Tottenham’s Executive Director Charlie Wijeratna Leaves Club

Totteham Hotspur have announced Executive Director with commercial responsibility, Charlie Wijeratna, has left the Club on Tuesday 17 January 2012 for unknown reasons

Wijeratna joined from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) where he and his team set up and delivered the sponsorship programme along with licensing and retailing projects, selling LOCOG’s official hospitality assets and Paralympicbroadcasting rights. With his team Charlie designed the highly successful competitive process for selling sponsorship assets which was groundbreaking in the UK in 2006.

A member of the London 2012 executive management team since the start of the bid in 2003, he was responsible for all the commercial and legal aspects of London’s bid for the Games and the establishment of LOCOG. Charlie is a qualified investment banker and lawyer with a background in sports TV production.

He was appointed executive director of Spurs in November 2010.

Daniel Levy, Chairman, said: “I’d like to thank Charlie for his work since he’s been with us. He has overseen the successful overhaul of the brand and the Club’s visual identity. We wish him the best of luck in the future.”

Charlie Wijeratna said: “I’ve enjoyed my time at Spurs. It has been an exciting environment to work in and I am proud of the work I have done with my team to position the Club for the next phase of its commercial development.”