Tottenham are putting the finishing touches to their new-look hierarchy after a few months of major change at the north London club
13:26, 05 Dec 2025Updated 13:47, 05 Dec 2025
Sporting director Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham, Tottenham’s chief executive officer, are playing their parts in reshaping the club
It has been a major period of change at Tottenham Hotspur in recent months and new faces continue to arrive at the Premier League outfit.
A string of long-serving members of the hierarchy have either departed or are in the process of leaving the north London club. The most high profile was chairman Daniel Levy, who left the club in September as Spurs‘ owners, the Lewis family, made the decision to modernise the structure at the top of the organisation. That came after a wide-ranging and in-depth internal review of the club which sparked a huge number of changes.
Levy’s exit after 24 years at the helm came soon after the departure of his long-time advisor and executive director Donna Maria-Cullen. Tottenham’s chief football officer Scott Munn had only been at the club for two years when he was placed on gardening leave in June. The Australian still remains on that gardening leave, with no formal announcement made by the club, but reports in Italy in recent months have linked him with a switch Serie A side Parma.
The man at the top of Tottenham now is chief executive officer Vinai Venkatesham, who has so far proved a popular appointment within the club, with part-time support coming from non-executive chairman Peter Charrington and a board that comprises Jonathan Turner, newcomer Eric Hinson and Matthew Collecott, the club’s operations and finance director, who is now the only remaining long-serving member of the board.
After more than a decade at the club, Rebecca Caplehorn is set to depart her role as Tottenham’s head of administration and football governance following the closure of the January transfer window. Capelhorn’s wide-ranging duties also included transfer and contract negotiations as well as working on behalf of the club with various governing bodies like the FA, European Football Clubs (formerly the ECA).
Some of those duties will be passed on to the incoming director of football operations within their remit, which will also include football administration as well as women’s football, training centre operations and player liaison. The recruitment process for that newly-created role is currently being undertaken.
That newcomer will support Spurs’ joint sporting directors Johan Lange and Fabio Paratici. Paratici has returned after his period as a consultant to concentrate on the current players including contracts, the transfer market plus the loans and pathways department, while Lange is focused on overseeing performance, the club’s scouting network and Tottenham’s academy.
There will naturally be crossover in both men’s remits as they look to support head coach Thomas Frank, who himself is a relatively new face after taking over from the sacked Ange Postecoglou in the summer.
The changes continued in the club’s medical department with director of performance services Adam Brett and head of sports science Nick Davies both departing after only a year in their posts. Spurs moved last month to appoint Dan Lewindon, from the City Group, to replace Brett as their new performance director, while Michael Cooper was promoted to head of sports science in September after four years as a first team physical performance coach.
Away from the football side of the club, there have also been new appointments to bolster Spurs’ revenue and in turn spending power, allied to the recent injection of cash from the Lewis family, driven by Vivienne and Charles Lewis along with the former’s son-in-law Nick Beucher, with more backing expected in that regard.
Adam Gardiner is set to join Tottenham in the new year as the chief marketing officer, joining Venkatesham in making the trip across the north London divide after almost six years at Arsenal. He will lead the development of the Spurs brand, marketing and strategies to improve engagement with the fans through content.
Another new face set to arrive in January is Alex Scotcher to manage Tottenham’s sponsorship team, as part of the restructuring currently being undertaken under chief revenue officer Ryan Norys. Scotcher worked for a spell with Norys at Italian club Roma as their chief commercial officer and will now make the move to north London to follow his former boss.
Scotcher arrives from US-based agency network Elevate, who helped secure the naming rights to the Hill Dickinson Stadium for Everton and have worked this year with Valencia to do the same for their new home. Spurs are yet to announce a naming rights sponsor for the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium six years after its opening, having found unexpected financial benefits from promoting their own brand through the current name.
Norys, who replaced Todd Kline, now at Chelsea, last year, remains the main figure tasked with securing any sponsorship and commercial revenue across the club and stadium. The primary focus for that department is currently believed to be securing a new lucrative front of shirt sponsor to take over from AIA when they switch to become training wear partner from the 2027/28 season.
Another new face within the club is Kate Miller after Spurs appointed the ECB’s chief communications officer to a similar role with them in September. Her new wide-ranging remit will include a strong focus on improving the relationship and communication with supporters and stakeholders.
There has been an incredible amount of change at the club in recent months and after decades of being run in a very particular way, Tottenham Hotspur now has a lot of fresh new voices plotting the way forward.
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