Peter Kenyon, the former Chelsea Football Club supremo, has joined CAA Sports, the sports division of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), to help spearhead its international work.
Mr Kenyon, who quit Chelsea - and one of the most highly paid executive positions in English football - in September, will oversee the agency’s overseas growth in areas like athlete representation, endorsements, sports properties and corporate consulting.
He will also help to develop CAA Sports’ London operations.
In a statement, Mr Kenyon said he “looked forward to helping grow its international presence and creating new opportunities for the agency and its clients overseas.”
Mr Kenyon, a former Manchester United head, declared when he left Chelsea, after five and a half years, that he had “at least one major challenge left.”
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During his tenure at Chelsea he was widely mocked for setting a target of winning two European Cups in a decade. He remains a non-executive director of the club, where he worked under owner Roman Abramovich.
The 54-year-old left afer becoming disillusioned at the erosion of his influence.
He was said to have beem made an essential scapegoat for the failure of Luiz Felipe Scolari, whome he appointed as manager instead of Abramovich’s preferred candidate, Carlo Ancelotti.
Abramovich sacked Scolari at the club’s training ground in February while Kenyon was on holiday in Barbados.
The Russian also blamed Kenyon for Chelsea’s failure to sign Robinho from Real Madrid last summer.
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CAA is best know as the company that orchestrated the deal that took David Beckham, the England captain, to play for Los Angeles Galaxy.
It represents more than 500 of the world’s best athletes, coaches and broadcasters.