Town Appoint Head of Operations - Ipswich Town News
Town have appointed a new head of operations, Rich Carpenter, who previously worked the Commonwealth Games and before that Liverpool, Aston Villa and West Brom.
The position was advertised over the summer as being "responsible for developing and overseeing various departments at the stadium and other existing and potentially future sites”.
Carpenter was venue manager at Edgbaston for the T20 cricket matches which took place during this summer’s Commonwealth Games.
Prior to that, between February 2017 and January 2022, he spent five years as training ground facilities manager at Liverpool.
That was preceded by a three-year stint as head of facility operations at Aston Villa and before that just over two years at West Bromwich Albion as facilities manager.
Before that, Carpenter spent more than nine years as operations duty manager at Loughborough University.
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