Feist has been working at Essex since 2012, initially as head of group and cricket operations. He was promoted to deputy chief govt earlier than Stephenson’s departure, then named common supervisor throughout a restructure of the membership’s hierarchy, understood to be because of the membership’s straitened monetary place.
Final 12 months, Essex have been additionally one in all eight counties to win Tier 1 standing for his or her girls’s workforce, as a part of the ECB’s revamped home construction for ladies’s cricket.
Feist stated: “I am deeply honoured and excited in equal measure to tackle the function of chief Govt. This can be a membership that has develop into a major a part of my life, and it means an awesome deal to me.
“I’m captivated with cricket in any respect ranges in Essex and the area, from rising participation alternatives for all members of our group, to making sure all our squads are in the perfect place to problem for trophies.
“We’ve a powerful, hard-working group of employees already in place, and aggressive squads able to take to the sphere, and it’s my function to take care of the excessive requirements that Essex Cricket has already set itself.
“In partnership with the Boards, we have now a transparent imaginative and prescient of changing into the primary cricket area, and I’m desperate to play a job in guaranteeing we will obtain that.
“At this extremely thrilling time, with our newly-professional girls’s aspect becoming a member of us, I imagine we have now the correct individuals and the correct tradition to proceed to drive Essex and all the, wider area ahead.”
