Keith Haslam is the majority shareholder

Shareholder

A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself ....

 (via a holding company called Stags Ltd) and CEO

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 (and also ex-chairman) of Mansfield Town

Mansfield Town F.C.

Mansfield Town Football Club is an English football club from the former mining town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The club was formed in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans and changed its name to Mansfield Wesley in 1906 before settling on Mansfield Town in 1910...

. Haslam amassed personal and inter-company loans of over £1,000,000 at their peak. It is understood that he still owes the club part of the value of his personal loan, and he refuses to consider the paying back of the inter-company loan as important to the football club.
On 26 April 2008 Haslam was attacked, he was punched and kicked by his own fans, he later required hospital treatment.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1098233.ece


Following an assault by one of his Mansfield Town fans Haslam announces that he will sell the football club but not the ground and he is currently holding the new owner to ransom. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/apr/28/mansfield.leaguetwofootball