The full board is not listed on the EFC website any more (and hasn't been for some time - I think since BK died and the interim board was in place) but from what I can gather, the remaining board members are a mish-mash of folks from the The Friedkin Group (or more specifically Roundhouse Capital Holdings Ltd which was formed as the vehicle to buy EFC) and a few leftovers from the old EFC regime.
Dan Friedkin - Chairman
Marc Watts - Executive Chairman (also Director at Roundhouse)
Angus Kinnear - CEO
Ana Dunkel - Corporate Board Member (also Director at Roundhouse)
Colin Chong - Director/Stadium & Regeneration Lead (was EFC Interim CEO)
Eric Williamson - Director (also Executive VP at Friedkin Group, President and GM of Gulf States Toyota and also on the board at Roma and Cannes - I suspect his EFC input is - at best - extremely minimal!)
Katie Charles is our Chief Legal Counsel and also Company Secretary - I believe that she possibly has board voting rights, but I'm not sure she's a director or officially on the board
Martyn Hawkins is our Chief Financial Officer (came from Man City) but again, it's not clear if he's on the board or not. 
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Who would make the decisions, we dont have a DoF anymore do we.
Its odd, but I have no idea who are chairman is, for probably the first time in my life.
I mean clearly we have a board, and perhaps I am just out the loop. But I've no idea who they are 😆
Its a fair point about him staying around too. Previous Message
I originally thought it might be some sort of director of football but I don't think they will want him involved at all
I don't think he works well in a team
He's his own man
He doesn't like to be told what to do
American owners don't like to be told what they should be doing
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I think Moyes mighy move behind the scenes at the end of this summer
Some sort of role that's not quite Director of Football, but overseer of the club, with a coach brought in.
Whether or not that would be the best thing I dont know, but I can see him staying in a role.
I also agree when he first came back last season he was more attacking. Now we aren't quite so much.
There are pockets with KDH ndiaye grealish, Garner, but its not rampant. And as much as its players, its also overall style and mentality.
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and by the way I loved Moyes during his 1st spell and was absolutely gutted when he left
Our football is never on the front foot
Our footy was terrible under Dyche and we played safety 1st football but despite adding Grealish and KDH is it really any better, obviously it is but it's still so pedestrian and how often is the striker isolated in the box
Our best performances and results are away from home where we make ourselves difficult
When Moyes came in the performances v Spurs, Leicester and United were all about attacking in numbers and closing down - we've not seen any of that this season
My guess and the lads I go with were all in agreement and this was before the game against Wolves on Wednesday, is that Moyes goes at the end of the season. I'm absolutely certain of that Previous Message
Not so much the recent turgid performances or conservative selections / use of subs (both of which are true), but the fact that so many of our fanbase are just gagging for him to fail. There’s a group who didn’t like him first time around, a group who didn’t like him running his contract down, and a group who didn’t like the way he went about going after Fellaini / Baines.
A year ago we were heading for the Championship. We’ve had some narrow escapes over the last few years but I really did think we were toast - especially with the group of players that we had and the playing style they’d been coached to over a number of years. To turn that around so quickly and have us comfortably safe…I’m really not sure there’s many who could’ve done that. And certainly fewer still who’d have been willing to join us.
This season, we were 5th at the start of December and top ten at new year for the first time in forever. We’ve had injuries, suspensions and AFCON since hit an already wafer thin squad and we’re in the middle of a really bad run - both results and performances.
But we had similar ups and downs in Moyes’ first spell with us; it wasn’t until four or five years in that he really started to establish us as a consistent top eight team. This go around he’s had less than a year and one transfer window to correct a start point that’s as bad as we’ve had in years. We’ve been through countless managers trying to come close to even where we’re at, right now.
I don’t think he’s faultless. As I posted the other day, I’m really not convinced that we managed our summer business according to need (and, as Jon posted below, was Kenny Tete really the only right back out there?). I think there are times when he’s been overly cautious with selections, made poor subs (Brentford) or been too slow to change things (Wolves). But there’s a lot of short memories and a lack of patience among many (as well as some longer memories when it comes to his past).
Righting the many years of wrongs was never going to be a one window job. It’s miserable right now, I agree. Moyes hasn’t always helped himself, I agree. But God knows where we’d be without him. And when you look at the next messiahs who’ve been lauded by many (Potter, Thomas Frank, Amorim, Chelsea’s carousel of managers…even Glasner’s Palace are below us in the league and just had a more embarrassing cup exit) do we really have the confidence that there’s someone out there just primed to step in and do better?
I’m not advocating giving him forever but surely he deserves one poor run at a time when circumstances (was it nine senior players unavailable today?) are most certainly altering the case? I suspect there’s a few who are revelling in feeling vindicated, however, vs accounting for the context of where we’ve come from, where we’re at, and that the journey to where we want to get to isn’t going to be beautifully linear.
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