Success at Birmingham City and West Ham followed by peerage and role at Philip Green empire
Karren Brady has succeeded in arenas dominated by largely unreconstructed men. She is widely referred to as the “first lady of football” for her quarter-of-a-century career running Birmingham City and then West Ham United. A supporter of David Cameron and George Osborne, the 49-year-old is one of just 206 women in the House of Lords (out of a total of 783 peers).
She has also famously advised Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, as well as Simon Cowell and the former pornographer David Sullivan. It was Sullivan who gave Brady her first big break in 1993 when she convinced him to buy Birmingham City out of receivership. He installed her as chief executive when she was just 23, but told her she would have to be twice as good as a man to run the club, to which Brady replied: “Well that’s not difficult.”
Related: Karren Brady quits as chair of Philip Green’s retail group
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