Roles and Responsibilities

• Chair of Board
• Chair, Board Nominations Committee  
• Member, Remuneration Committee  
• Appointed 1 August 2021  
• Tom is considered independent for the purposes of the Sport England Code for Sports Governance 

Biography​​

Tom Ilube CBE joined the RFU as Chair having had a 30-year career in the UK technology sector including roles at PwC, Goldman Sachs and the London Stock Exchange.

Tom is also Chair of the King's Trust UK and is a Non-Executive Director of FTSE100 global advertising agency WPP plc since 2020. Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of the BBC from 2017 to 2021 where he served on the Audit and Risk Committee and Chaired the Fair Trading Committee.

Prior to his Board career, Tom has been involved in founding and running a number of technology companies. He has also been involved in education. In 2014, he was the Founding Chair of Hammersmith Academy, the UK’s first digital and creative media academy, and has been a Governor of several secondary schools from Darwen in Lancashire to Brighton in Sussex. Tom is also Chair of the African Science Academy, Africa’s leading all girls science and technology school, and a Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford and Jesus College, Oxford.

In 2018, he was awarded a CBE for services to technology and to philanthropy.