Mel Morris (businessman)

Mel Morris is an English businessman who currently owns Derby County F.C.. He was born and raised in Littleover. Out of school, he first worked as a tile and flooring manager at a company he helped to establish in Spain before venturing into entrepreneurship. He gained a large part of his fortune through his backing of the firm behind the mobile game Candy Crush Saga, King Digital. When King was sold to Activision Blizzard, Morris collected £450 million. He chaired King from 2003 on. Shortly after leaving this flooring firm, he developed and then sold a dating website called uDate for £100 million. With the money secured from that sale, he invested in Prevx, an internet security firm later sold to Webroot, and King Digital. On the Sunday Times Rich List, Morris sits tied for 228th place. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he resided in Belper, though his current residence in unknown.

He bought out Derby County's previous owner, the United States holding company American Partners, in September 2015. He first bought into the club in May 2014 for a 22% stake, shortly after the club's 2014 Football League Championship play-off Final defeat to the Queens Park Rangers. He has been involved in a league-wide push to increase TV revenue for non-Premier League clubs.

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