"I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Holly Bellingham as a director of Ipswich Town Football Club." he told the Official Club Website.
"Holly has been recruited for her own particular business skills and acumen and for what she can add to the board. Combined with the fact that she is the first ever lady director of Ipswich Town, she will bring an important new voice and approach that I'm sure will benefit the Club going forward.
"Holly has supported the Club for many years, both individually and via her company Marketform, who have been regular and generous sponsors of many matches and events at Portman Road.
"Holly and her partner Simon Turner have also invested considerable amounts through both last summer's loan note issue and in the recent share issue.
"I feel, as do my fellow directors, that future appointments to the board must firstly add value in terms of skills around the table, and secondly having filled that key criterion, any new recruit should, as far as possible, be representative of our supporter base. Being a Club with one of the highest ratios of female support, in the order of 25 per cent, I hope that Holly's appointment will be widely welcomed."