Nottingham Forest CEO Lina Souloukou leaves role

Lina Souloukou has left her role as Nottingham Forest chief executive officer in the latest change to the club hierarchy.

Tormer Roma CEO will not continue the job she began in January 2025 beyond this summer, the club announced on Friday.

“It has been an honour to serve as the chief executive of Nottingham Forest. I have enjoyed my time here enormously and feel that we have made incredible progress under the
ownership of Evangelos Marinakis,” Souloukou said in a release.

The Greek — who has previously had an influence at Olympiacos and Rio Ave, the two other clubs within the Evangelos Marinakis football empire — had been one of the highest-ranked women in an executive role in English football.

Souloukou, 42, add sto a list of departures from the club over the past year that also includes chief football officer Ross Wilson, who took on a similar role at Newcastle United in October last year and Craig Mulholland, the head of football development, who joined the Scottish Football Association last month. Finance director Tom Bonser has also left for Fulham, and global head of football Edu’s departure is also expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks.

An almost immediate fall out between Edu and then head coach Nuno Espirito Santo was a factor in his departure, which was the spark for a chaotic campaign that saw Vitor Pereira become the fourth man in the dugout, following the short tenures of Ange Postecoglou and Sean Dyche.

Due to the departures, there will need to be some restructuring work done at the City Ground in the coming months.

Souloukou’s exit will leave Crystal Palace’s Sharon Lacey as the only woman in a club CEO role in the Premier League — although Palace tend to be represented by chairman Steve Parish at Premier League board meetings.

Karren Brady (West Ham United, vice chair), Donna Maria Cullen (Tottenham Hotspur, executive director), Maria Granovskaia (Chelsea, director), Amanda Staveley (Newcastle United, director), Denise Barrett-Baxendale (Everton, CEO) and Susan Whelan (Leicester City, chief executive) have all departed their roles in recent seasons.