Kenny Baillie
| Birth name | Kenny Baillie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Hutchesons' Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Edinburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenny Baillie is a former CEO of the rugby clubs Glasgow Hawks, Glasgow Warriors and London Scottish; and a former player of Glasgow Hawks and Glasgow Warriors.
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Starting his amateur career at Glasgow Academicals on the merger of Glasgow High Kelvinside with the club to form Glasgow Hawks, Baillie was to become a Hawks player.
Baillie captained Glasgow Hawks as a player.
Professional career
[edit]He was to be called up by Glasgow Rugby (now Glasgow Warriors) for their 1996 match against AS Montferrand (now Clermont) in the European Cup.[1]
International career
[edit]He was capped by Scotland at Under 21 level.[2]
Administration career
[edit]He was on the Board of Directors at Glasgow Hawks since 2005 and became their full-time CEO in 2008.[3]
Baillie was once again called up by the Warriors, this time as CEO in 2009.[4] He was to take over in October 2009 from Colin Thomson who held the position as caretaker when Ian Riddoch quit in July.[2] He held the post till the end of season 2011 and he tried again to quit rugby.
In March 2013 he moved back into rugby, becoming the CEO of London Scottish.[5] In the summer of 2015 he announced that he would quit the Exiles.[6]
Business career
[edit]After studying at the University of Edinburgh Baillie moved to the IT sector; first with software production then moving on to business development. He was the Business Development Director for the University of Strathclyde's spin-out Dynamic Knowledge Corporation and Vice President of business development for Graham America, Inc. (Graham Technology).[4][3]
Relocating in London, he became an Account Director at Westfield Shoppingtowns Ltd. from 2011 to 2013; a company which owns shopping centres worldwide.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Match Centre - Amlin Challenge Cup - ERC - Official Website". ercrugby.com.
- ^ a b "BBC SPORT - Rugby Union - My Club - Glasgow - Baillie is new Glasgow chief exec". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ a b "Glasgow Warriors - Big changes at Hawks". glasgowwarriors.com.
- ^ a b "Kenny Baillie Confirmed As Warriors Chief Executive". scottishrugby.org.
- ^ "Kenny Baillie To Begin New Role As London Scottish CEO". londonscottish.com.
- ^ "Kenny Baillie to leave this summer". londonscottish.com.
- ^ "Kenny Baillie". yorkhill.org.