| Andrew Pettit | |
| Birth Place: | Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Nationality: | English |
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Andrew Pettit (born March 1968) is an English businessman who is current football chairman and joint majority shareholder of Grimsby Town.
Pettit attended Hereford School as a boy, and was the first within his family to attend university.[1]
Pettit is a lifelong supporter of his home town football club Grimsby Town; in 1975 he attended his first game against Stockport County.[2]
Pettit graduated from the University of Sussex with a BA (Hons) in Law and French, becoming a qualified solicitor.[3] He also holds a postgraduate licence in EU law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as speaking French fluently.[4]
Pettit formerly worked several months in France for Airbus.[1] Prior to becoming managing director and head of the European real estate principal transactions business at Lehman Brothers, and a solicitor at Clifford Chance one of the world's largest law firms in the property sector.[3]
Pettit is one of the founding partners of Revcap, a private equity real estate business in 2004.[1]
Pettit was announced as part of a consortium, led by London businessman Tom Shutes, which was interested in buying out John Fenty's majority control of Grimsby Town.[5] Shutes later pulled out for personal reasons, which prompted Pettit and other consortium member Jason Stockwood to form a company called 1878 Partners, which on 5 May successfully completed the takeover of the club with Stockwood named as chairman.[6]
On 14 May 2024, Pettit was named the new chairman of Grimsby Town, replacing Jason Stockwood taking over for a consecutive three-year term.[7]