Malcolm Gold

Ex-Director

Malcolm became a director of the club in May 2004 after Bill Tomlins put together a consortium to take control of the club after the Hatters had spent an entire year in administrative receivership following the short and controversial reign of John Gurney in the summer of 2003.

Malcolm is an entrepreneur who owns the Regal Hotel chain and, on joining the club, he was in the process of building a new hotel in Orlando - and the hotel would be the fourth biggest in the world.

Bill Tomlins put together a consortium that consisted of former director John Mitchell, who had played for Fulham and Millwall in the 1970s, Derek Peters, a former financial director at Tottenham Hotspur Plc and the football club, who joined the White Hart Lane-based club in the 1980s and floated the club onto the stock market – making Spurs the first British club to ever be floated on the stock market, and Richard Bagehot, a lawyer.

Malcolm was one of two investors, the other being Ken James, a banker who worked for eight years in New York.

Both Malcolm and Ken James became members of the board and, after overseeing the Hatters excellent on-the-field success in 2004-05 as they ran away with the League One Championship, both Malcolm and Ken James stepped down from their positions with the knowledge that they had helped the club in the right direction.

Profile By:  James Garley