2014 Commonwealth Games chief and customer service director join SRU as ‘external custodians’

The man who ran the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to sit on the revamped Scottish Rugby Union’s oversight board.

David Grevemberg helped deliver a successful Commonwealth Games for Glasgow in 2014. (Picture: Sammy Turner/SNS)

David Grevemberg, chief executive of Glasgow 2014, and Cheryl Black, an experienced customer service director and non-executive director from the telecoms and digital sector, have been selected as “external custodians” following an external recruitment process.

They will join the Scottish Rugby Union Board in early 2023, and sit alongside its chair, Professor Lorne Crerar, current Scottish Rugby president Colin Rigby, former Scottish Rugby president Ian Barr and vice-president Keith Wallace. A further two custodian positions will be recruited from the Scottish rugby community in the new year.

American-born Grevemberg is a former competitive wrestler, coach and agent who is widely credited with delivering a successful Games in Glasgow. Black has held various non-exec roles across the private and public sectors, including with the NHS, EDF Nuclear, Telefonica and Scottish Widows. She said that “rugby runs like DNA” through her family.