Sky Andrew

SMWW Soccer conference speakers and Faculty Matt Martin (left) and Sky Andrew (right) in 2020.

Skylet Andrew and was the first Black British sports agent.

Biography Andrew was born in Upton Park, London, to a London Transport bus driver father, and a mother who worked in an East End pie factory. and won 3 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship gold medals in 1989 . Andrew retired from competitive table tennis after the 1994 European Championships.

Sports agent While training at Lilleshall Hall in his youth, Andrew met young footballer Sol Campbell, with whom he struck up a friendship.

In the mid-1990s at Campbell's suggestion, he became the first licensed Black British football agent, engineering Campbell's move from Tottenham Hotspur to Arsenal.

Honors Andrew won a Barclays Bank "Man of Merit Award" in 2002, and was named the BEA Entrepreneur of The Year in 2003.