Paul Barber is 43 years of age and was appointed Chief Executive Officer

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...

 of the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club in November 2009 and took up this appointment on 1 March 2010. He was previously Executive Director of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club of the Premier League and is a former Commercial Director and Director of Marketing and Communications for The Football Association

The Football Association

The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England, and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It was formed in 1863, and is the oldest national football association...

 in England.

Barber has spent more than a decade in football administration having previously held senior executive and Board level positions in a number of British companies including Barclays Bank, Inchcape

Inchcape

Inchcape or the Bell Rock is a notorious reef off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife . Bell Rock Lighthouse, an automatic lighthouse, occupies the reef...

, Abbey National

Abbey National

Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the...

 and Royal & SunAlliance

Royal & SunAlliance

RSA Insurance Group plc , commonly known as RSA, is a global general insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has over 20 million customers in 36 countries across Asia, Europe, North America and South America....

, and the US advertising and communications group Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...

, where he was Chief Executive for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is also a non executive director of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in England and of Rose Bowl plc, parent company of Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

.