Kensington Dragons is a registered charity (England & Wales no. 1144887) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (no. 7720188).
The Charity’s objects are to promote community participation of, primarily, children and young people regardless of race, sex, creed, financial means or social and economic circumstances in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health and to advance the education of children and young people so that they might grow to maturity as individuals, become responsible members of society and their conditions of life may be improved.
The Trustees
Chris Shirley – Chairman
BSc Engineering Kings College, London
MBA Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania
Management Consultant PE-Inbucon, corporate development
Chief Executive Dewplan Group, industrial water treatment and property development group
Chairman Clarendon Group, publishing and construction
Founding Committee Member of Kensington Dragons FC
Married with 4 children living in RBKC.
Michael Clancy – Chairman Patron’s Programme
BS Wood Science and Technology University of Maine, Orono, Maine
MS Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Co-head Debt Fund Management Group, Rothschild
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Elgin Capital
Global Co-head Credit Trading and Underwriting, Merrill Lynch
Founding Committee Member of Kensington Dragons FC
Married with 3 children living in RBKC
Martin Murphy – Facilities Officer
BA Hons Arch
Dip Arch (Distinction)
ARB and RIBA Chartered Architect
Founding partner at Murphy Davé Architects
Foundation Governor at Gunnersbury School, Hounslow
Founding committee member of Kensington Dragons FC and currently chair of the management committee
Married with two children and living in LBH&F
Carlo Pirzio-Biroli
MS Civil Engineering, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
MBA Columbia Business School, New York, USA
Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group
Executive, General Electric Corporation
CEO, CDB Web Tech SpA
Global Head Private Equity, Asset & Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank
Committee Member of Kensington Dragons FC
Married with 3 children living in RBKC
Gabrielle Tierney
(bio to follow)
Staff
Graham McCulloch – Education Officer / Assistant Club Welfare Officer
MA Applied Linguistics, University of Wales
BA Linguistics and Psychology, University of London
Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (DELTA)
OBE (2012) – Services to British Council (UK’s international organisation for education and cultural relations)
MBE (1999) – Services to Teaching of English in Middle East and North Africa
Director Global Teaching Operations, British Council
Director in Kuwait, Morocco, Dubai, British Council
Manager of Teaching Centres in Egypt, Bahrain, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, British Council
Chairman of British Moroccan Society (UK based charity)
Advisory Board Member, British University Morocco
Founder of Wood Green Wanderers Cricket Club (London) and ‘British’ Cricket Teams in Morocco and Egypt