About David Gill (football executive)
David Alan Gill (born 5 August 1957) is a British football executive, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association. He served as vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee until the G-14 was disbanded. He sat on the UEFA Executive Committee as of 2013. Gill was elected as a FIFA vice-president sitting on the FIFA Council in 2015; rejecting this position in protest at Sepp Blatter until Blatter announced his resignation as FIFA president, following the 2015 FIFA corruption case. == Career == Born and raised in Reading, Berkshire, Gill studied at the University of Birmingham (BCom Industrial, Economic and Business Studies, 1978), becoming a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1981. After a two-year spell in San Francisco, he left the firm in 1986 to join BOC in its corporate finance department, and then Avis in 1990. At Avis, he was responsible for the disposal of the European leasing business to GE Capital for US$1 billion in August 1992. Subsequently, he was finance director at Proudfoot, the worldwide management consulting business, then quoted on the London Stock Exchange, and then at First Choice Holidays, the third largest UK tour operator, before joining Manchester United in 1997. === Manchester United === Gill joined Manchester United in 1997 as finance director. In August 2000, he was promoted to deputy chief executive whilst retaining his responsibilities as finance director.
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