Barry Kilby is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 businessman, the chairman of Burnley Football Club

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

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Career

Kilby founded and built Europrint Group, the largest supplier of media games (Scratch cards) in the world. The company was bought by GTECH in June 2003.

Kilby presently runs Total Gaming Solutions Ltd, a lottery

Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...

 service company for professional football clubs, and is chairman of SpeedMark (Sport & Leisure) Ltd, a football themed fundraising company for schools/
Barry is married to Sonya and they have a son , Thomas.
Barry and Sonya live in the Ribble Valley.

Burnley F.C.

Kilby joined the Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

board of directors in October 1998. He became chairman following a vote at the company's Annual General Meeting two months later. He invested £3 million into the club in a 2-1 rights issue in January 1999, which made him the club's largest single shareholder.