Vanessa Julia Young (née Gold; born June 1967)[2] is an English football club joint-chair and businesswoman.
Gold was appointed to the board, as joint-chair, with David Sullivan of Premier League club West Ham United in August 2023.
[5] In October 2023, Gold announced that she was considering selling some of her shares in the club and had appointed Rothschild & Co to advise on any sale.
[6] In July 2023 Gold was appointed to the role of company chair of Ann Summers, a British multinational retailer company specialising in sex toys and lingerie, following the death of her sister and chief executive Jacqueline Gold earlier in 2023.
She had previously been both joint managing director and chief executive having worked her way up in the company starting in her teens.