Topic: Richard Murray

Richard Alan Murray is a British businessman and the current chairman of Charlton Athletic F.C.

Murray founded Avesco plc, the specialist services provider to the entertainment & sports industry in 1984, where he was Chairman for almost 20 years; he is the Chairman of Investinmedia plc and has other non-executive directorships which include Welsh Industrial Investment Trust plc and Medal Entertainment and Media plc.He supported Charlton Athletic as a young boy.

Murray first started watching Charlton Athletic F.C. during the 1980s when the club was playing its home games at Selhurst Park as the club's ground, The Valley, had been forcibly closed. He joined the board of Charlton in the early 1990s and is credited with helping the club return to The Valley in 1992. He became chairman of the plc board at Charlton in 1995, after which he appointed Alan Curbishley as the club's sole manager (Curbishley had previously been joint manager with Steve Gritt). Murray's tenure has overseen two promotions to the Premier League and seven seasons in the top flight, the club's most successful spell since the years preceding and after World War II.