Ian Lenagan

Ian Lenagan (born 1946, Scholes, Wigan) is a business entrepreneur, theatre producer and shareholder of London Broncos, chairman and owner of Wigan Warriors and a former director at Oxford United F.C.. In 2016 he was appointed Chairman of the Football League.

Born in Scholes, Wigan, Lenagan attended St Patrick's Primary School as a child and gained an appreciation for rugby league, playing for the local amateur club also named St Patrick's.

He was educated at West Park Grammar School in St Helens before eventually moving onto university. Lenagan attended both Manchester and Liverpool universities and graduated with a BSc in Mathematics and a MSc in Magnetohydrodynamics respectively.

In 1985 Lenagan set up his own business, Workplace Systems, in Milton Keynes. The company, which develops and supplies software products for workforce management, his first successful contract was with Asda, his business became very successful and expanded abroad to places across Europe, Australasia, the US and the Middle East. Major retailers that are now known to use Workplace Systems include Argos, Focus, Sports Café, Next and Morrisons. With the success of Workplace Systems the company was floated on the in 2000 under the name Telework Systems PLC to incorporate another company founded by Lenagan in 1981, TeleWare, which focused on the telephony software products market.

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