Tokyo Olympian Cheavon Clarke joins the board of GB Boxing as an athlete representative
Cruiserweight prospect is one of series of new board appointments
TOKYO Olympian and professional cruiserweight prospect, Cheavon Clarke, is one of a series of recent appointments to the board of GB Boxing, which manages and oversees Great Britain’s Olympic boxing programme.
Clarke spent more than four years in the GB Boxing squad and won European championship medals in 2017 and 2019 and a bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Following an open recruitment process, he has been appointed as the Athlete Representative Independent Director, with specific responsibility for ensuring the perspective of boxers is heard and taken into account at board-level.
He is one of six new additions to the GB Boxing board since June 2025 and is joined by four other independent directors, Mahdi Choudhury, Lynne Murray, Andy Roe and Rani Wynn, along with Jason Harborow, who is the new representative of Welsh Boxing.
The appointments follow last year’s restructure of the GB Boxing board which was designed to increase its independence and bring a broader range of expertise into decision making.
It means the board is now made-up of an independent Chair, Jason Glover, six independent directors, including an Athlete Representative, one person from each of the three national governing bodies for boxing in England, Scotland and Wales, and GB Boxing’s Chief Executive, Matt Holt.
Cheavon Clarke said: “GB Boxing has been a big part of my life and played an important part in helping me to develop as both a boxer and a person, so it is great to be able to give something back and have the opportunity to use my knowledge and experience to shape the future development of the WCP and ensure that the views of athletes play an important role in board level decision making.”
Jason Glover added: “I am very happy with the skills and experience of all the people that have joined the board in recent months and am sure that they will all play an important role in the future development of the organisation and enable GB Boxing to go from strength to strength and maintain its status as one of Great Britain’s most admired WCPs. They all have a track record of excellence and outstanding achievements in their chosen fields, and I am looking forward to working closely with each of the new Directors as we build to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.”
The six new board members are:
Cheavon Clarke, Independent Director – Athlete Representative
After winning the England national title at heavyweight in 2016 (where he defeated former cruiserweight world champion, Chris Billam Smith in the final), Clarke joined the GB Boxing squad in 2017 and won silver at that year’s European championships in Kharkiv. He went on to win a bronze for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast and another for Team GB at the 2019 European Games in Minsk. He qualified for the delayed Tokyo Olympics (which took place in 2021) but did not win a medal and departed the GB Boxing squad post-Games to turn professional where he boxes at cruiserweight and has won 11 of his 13 contests.
Mahdi Choudhury, Independent Director
Mahdi is the Membership Director at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and has worked in sport for more than two decades including 13 years at the British Olympic Association (BOA) and two as the Chief Executive of British Elite Athletes Association (formerly the British Athletes Commission). A qualified lawyer, in his time at the BOA Mahdi served as legal counsel before moving on to become a sport engagement manager where he worked closely with GB Boxing during the London and Rio Olympic cycles.
Jason Harborow, Director – Welsh Boxing representative
Jason Harborow is a senior advisor and consultant specialising in large scale projects across sport, culture and entertainment. He has worked in sport for more than 40 years and is the founder and Chief Executive of Global 13, where he advises governments, rights holders and investors on major international initiatives. He has extensive experience in the Middle East where he held a number of senior roles including Managing Director of Sport, Entertainment and Culture at NEOM, Vice President at the Royal Commission for AlUla and Chief Executive of Tamkeen in the UAE. Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive of Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, Commercial General Manager of Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002 and Operations Director of the Rugby League World Cup 2000. In 2025, he Chaired the Steering Group that advised the local organising committee (LOC) of the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool. He was appointed the independent Chair of Welsh Boxing in September 2025.
Lynne Murray, Independent Director
Lynne Murray is the Director of Commercial Finance at Channel 4 and is a senior commercial finance professional with experience spanning a variety of companies including Sky, BP and Conde Nast, along with smaller, privately owned enterprises in sectors covering entertainment, sport, media, advertising and consumer subscription businesses. An Oxford graduate, Lynne also has a qualification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School.
Andy Roe (Lord Roe of West Wickham KFSM), Independent Director
Andy Roe is the former Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, leading one of the largest emergency services in the world, where he spent 24 years, serving at every rank from Firefighter to Commissioner. It followed five years as an officer in the British Army where he left with the rank of Captain. Andy has been involved in community boxing for most of his life, including many years as a boxer in London and then the Army, before becoming a coach and Vice Chair at Islington Boxing Club. He is the current Chair of the London Fire Brigade Boxing Club. He was awarded the King’s Fire Service Medal (KFSM) in the 2024 News Year Honours List and nominated for a life peerage in 2025. He sits in the House of Lords as Lord Roe of West Wickham.
Rani Wynn, Independent Director
Rani Wynn is general counsel and board member at LiveScore Group. As general counsel, she leads a full-service team of legal, data protection, procurement and compliance professionals and is responsible for driving forward the group’s commercial and transactional aspirations globally. Prior to joining LiveScore, Rani worked in the broadcast industry as Head of Legal at Freeview & Digital UK (London) and Legal Counsel at Sky UK. Rani established LiveScore Group’s women’s resource group in 2022 to tackle workplace gender imbalance and chairs GB Boxing’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
The remaining members of the board, along with the Chair and Chief Executive, are Jerome Pels, who represents England Boxing and former sprinter and four-time Olympic medallist, Christine Ohuruogu, who is the Senior Independent Chair.
GB Boxing was established in August 2008 to manage the World Class Programme (WCP) for boxing and ensure the best male and female boxers from England, Scotland and Wales are provided with coaching, support and opportunities to enable them to develop, improve and win medals at major international tournaments and the Olympic Games. Its primary role is to train and prepare the men and women in its Podium and Academy squads and identify and develop the next generation of boxers and coaches through its performance pathways and coach development activities.
Since it was established in 2008, men and women from the GB Boxing squad have won more than 100 medals at major championships, including 16 at four Olympic Games.