Jeremy Peace

Jeremy Roland Peace (born 1956) is a British businessman and, since June 2002, the chairman of West Bromwich Albion F.C., a professional football club in the West Midlands, England.

Biography

Jeremy Peace was born 13 August 1956 in West Bromwich and educated at Shrewsbury School. He worked in accountancy, as a stockbroker and in investment banking between 1974 and 1983. Until 1991, he was a major shareholder and director of Morland Securities PLC (later renamed Access Satellite International PLC) and then of Sangers Photographics PLC (later renamed Quadrant Group PLC).

Since that time, Peace has been a director and/or shareholder in various public limited companies, namely South Country Homes, Thomas Potts, London Town, e-primefinancial, EP&F Capital, Galahad Capital, Camelot Capital and West Bromwich Albion F.C..

West Bromwich Albion

Peace joined the board of West Bromwich Albion as a Non-Executive Director on 8 December 2000, and became Chairman in June 2002, following the resignation of Paul Thompson. The Company was taken private in 2005, with him owning a majority shareholding.