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changes to the domestic schedule. Members continued to push for a
Special General Meeting and one was eventually held on 12 October. The Club won the main motion by 898 votes to 610 but made the following statement "Following discussion at the SGM, we are concerned about the feeling within a relatively small but, nonetheless, significant group of our Members that the Club does not engage enough with them, and we will work hard to rectify this. We will seek to find appropriate ways of improving the effectiveness of our two-way communication."
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Anson inherited a long standing protest from
Lancashire members about the lack of democratic representation within the club. A request for two member elected board posts and member elections for the Member Representation Group hitherto chosen by club management was declined in October 2021. Members
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Lancashire board faced a vote of reprimand from Lancashire members for failing to keep their promises to members to hold a member forum. At the AGM on 27 May the Lancashire members voted to reprimand the Board by a margin of 55% for to 45% against. Around a third of Lancashire members
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English cricket, Lancashire's board called a Special General Meeting for 30th August 2022. Lancashire then cancelled the meeting after members had voted by post and conceded that they would give members a binding vote on any future
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for three-and-a-half years, working for Disney's consumer products division. In this capacity, he was responsible for the licensing of all clothes and toys for the company. During Anson's time in the consumer products division, the company generated
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tabled motions to the 2022 AGM to put the matter to a vote. Lancashire agreed a compromise that saw one member elected board role and the promise that future Member
Representation Group appointments would be made by member elections.
174:. The appointment was confirmed in December 2003, and Anson started work in February 2004. While at Manchester United, he was responsible for signing the club's then-record shirt sponsorship deal with AIG.
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On 1 March 2017, Anson was appointed global president of Teneo Sports, the sports arm of New York-based international C-suite advisory firm and investment banking platform
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Lancashire County Cricket Club in 2020 after the death of David Hodgkiss from COVID. Anson's appointment was ratified at the 2021 AGM.
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in Europe (ATP Europe), replacing the outgoing Horst
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