Michael Edelson Biography

Michael Edelson is a non-executive Director of Manchester United F.C. He is an angel investor, venture capitalist and philanthropist who has been instrumental in creating numerous cash shell companies on both AIM and PLUS. As a result of these, he was nicknamed "The Shellmeister" by Richard Rivlin in an article in the Sunday Telegraph in 1996 and the nickname has stuck to this day.

Edelson has been a non-exec Director of Manchester United F.C. since 1982. He was appointed to the board by Martin Edwards to replace Matt Busby who had became club president earlier the same year. Michael joined James Gulliver who had built up the Edwards family meat business into the £4 billion Argyll Group and Alan Gibson, the son of James Gibson, who was Manchester United's Chairman from 1932 to 1951 and who's loans saved the club from extinction.

Michael was the first of a younger generation brought onto the board by Martin Edwards to replace the "old brigade" who had served Manchester United so well since World War II. Twelve months later, he was joined by Bobby Charlton and Maurice Watkins, the club solicitor.


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