Jeremy Peace

Jeremy Roland Peace is a British businessman, and the former chairman and owner of West Bromwich Albion F.C, a professional football club in the West Midlands, England.

Biography

Jeremy Peace was born 13 August 1956 in West Bromwich and educated at Shrewsbury School. He worked in accountancy, as a stockbroker and in investment banking between 1974 and 1983. Until 1991, he was a major shareholder and director of Morland Securities PLC and then of Sangers Photographics PLC.
Since that time, Peace has been a director and/or shareholder in various public limited companies, namely South Country Homes, Thomas Potts, London Town, e-primefinancial, EP&F Capital, Galahad Capital, Camelot Capital and formerly West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion

Peace joined the board of West Bromwich Albion as a non-executive director on 8 December 2000, and became chairman in June 2002, following the resignation of Paul Thompson. The Company was taken private in 2005, with him owning a majority shareholding.
On 31 May 2013, Peace transferred his 59.9 per cent shareholding in West Bromwich Albion Group Limited to a new company, West Bromwich Albion Holdings Limited. Peace was the sole director of West Bromwich Albion Holdings Limited and owned 100% of the new company. The Companies House return for West Bromwich Albion Holdings Limited dated 10 June 2015 shows that whilst Peace owned 100% of the Ordinary Share Capital, a new class of "A" Ordinary Shares has been created. Kappa Limited owns 12,500 of these shares, and is the sole shareholder in this class.
In August 2016 Peace finalised a deal with Chinese businessman Guochuan Lai to sell West Bromwich Albion for a figure believed to be in the region of £150m to £200m. Peace's role as chairman was taken up by former Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams. However, Peace agreed to stay at Albion for the 2016–17 Premier League season, in an advisory capacity.