High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Karren Brady (born 4 April 1969) is an English sporting executive, television broadcaster, newspaper columnist, author and novelist. She is the former managing director of Birmingham City Football Club and current vice-chairman of West Ham United. Her appointment with Birmingham City began in March 1993, when only 23 years old, and in 2002 became the first woman to hold such a post in the top flight of English football when the team was promoted. She was responsible for the company's flotation in 1997, thus becoming the youngest managing director of a UK plc. She left the club October 2009 after it was sold for ?82,000,000. In January 2010 she was appointed vice-chairman of West Ham United following a change of ownership of the club. She is currently Lord Sugar's assistant on the BBC 1's TV show The Apprentice and writes regular columns for Woman Home magazine and The Sun. She has also published four books including two novels. Данное...