Biography
Ian is a qualified solicitor who retired as managing partner of international law firm Wragge & Co in 2014 after eight years in post. Prior to managing the business, Ian was a corporate partner at the firm for 14 years, acting for a number of substantial public and private companies and private equity houses on a wide range of transactions. Ian has over 30 years’ experience advising businesses of all types and sizes on their growth activities. He also has deep corporate governance experience, both as a legal adviser to listed businesses and as a current and previous non-executive board member of public and private companies and leading sports organisations.
Ian was Chair of Commonwealth Games England and a director of the Board of the Organising Committee of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, stepping down from these roles after the very successful Birmingham 2022 Games.
In October 2022, Ian became a non-executive director of Swing Fitness Ltd, a technology start up providing high quality gym equipment to communities in a simple and accessible way. More recently Ian acted as Chair of the Executive Steering Group of the Sport Accord Global Business and Sport Summit, hosted in Birmingham in April 2024. Ian has an MA in law from Cambridge University. He became Mercia’s Chair on 2 July 2019.