Huw Jenkins (Welsh businessman)

Huw Jenkins OBE (born 9 March 1963) is a Welsh businessman principally known for being chairman of football club Swansea City, currently playing in the Premier League.

Jenkins was born and grew up in Jersey Marine, Wales.

He was a youth goalkeeper for Afan Nedd Schools, Llandarcy and Afan Lido at the Welsh League level. He played in the youth systems of Bristol Rovers and Swansea and earned one Boys Club of Wales cap playing against Scotland, at 14.

He's a lifelong Swansea fan, recalling being taken by his father, Gordon Jenkins, to watch Swansea play Cardiff at Ninian Park as a boy. "We’d park away from the ground, and sneak in to see the game," he said in an interview, because "it was quite hostile if you were supporting Swansea."

Jenkins is chairman, shareholder and chief executive of Swansea City A.F.C.

Being part of a consortium that "ousted" then-owner Tony Petty and with the backing of the Swansea City's Supporters Trust, he was appointed chairman in January 2002, a position that he took, as he states, because, "I was the dullest one."

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