SportBusiness Campus Speaker Biographies
William Anderson:
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An entrepreneur since working for Kodak, William created The TeamWorks, following 20 years experience in creative industries, experiential marketing and creative education. Energy and attention to detail set William apart.
In 1990 I created an agency to pursue interest in marketing to and through schools. Alongside the agency, I created The Schools Consortium, with leading head teachers, co-operating to improve understanding between education and commerce. I was soon involved in development of school sport. In grassroots sport I have made a difference via: Education materials delivering exciting content and appropriate classroom penetration for Johnson & Johnson, Norwich Union and adidas Team Football, probably the richest commercially funded education programme available to schools.
Inspiration and education festivals supporting international events, including World Indoor Athletics Championships, UEFA Champions League and Wimbledon Tennis Championships, where my work achieved a 300% footfall increase.
I am passionate about re-establishing the link between cognitive and physical learning; helping everyone enjoy all sport, not just elite performance; engaging people through understanding the science behind sport.
Matt Archibald :
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Matt spent three and a half years at Deloitte, qualifying as a CA, before switching to a career in sport at Sport England. Initial work at Sport England involved advising internally and externally on governance and commercial issues. He has recently transferred across to the Governing Bodies team where he manages over £10m of funding. Clients include the Amateur Boxing Association, British Judo Association, England Hockey and the Royal Yachting Association. Responsibilities also incorporate monitoring and advising on governance at national governing bodies (NGBs).
Key work in recent months has centred on the restructure of the Amateur Boxing Association and the development of a web based tool for monitoring governance arrangements at NGBs.
Matt supports his local club Reading FC and is a keen golfer, playing off five handicap
Geoff Aucock :
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Geoff Aucock is the partner in property consultancy Drivers Jonas responsible for the development of sports facilities. DJ Sport specialises in advising sports clubs and public bodies on the procurement of sports venues and training facilities. His track record includes new stadia at Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Stoke, Southampton and Hull. The team have recently completed Coventry's Ricoh Arena and the OCS Stand at The Brit Oval. Current projects include a community stadium at Doncaster and The Lee Valley Athletics Centre in northeast London.
Geoff has lead a number of multi-disciplinary teams in the preparation of feasibility studies for sports facilities and has prepared many technical briefs including that for the new Wembley Stadium.
Geoff is the author of The Stadium Development Handbook, which provides non-technical advice on stadia schemes and recently commissioned a survey conducted by Football Fans Census to obtain supporters feedback on British stadia.
Ian Ayre:
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In his current role Ian is responsible for the operational management of TSA in Asia. Based at the TSA head office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, his role includes the management of 5 regional offices in Asia and the development of key relationships in sport and the commercial sector.
Previously, Ian was the Chairman and CEO of a UK football club and Managing Director of Premium TV, a subsidiary of NTL. At Premium TV, Ian managed the new media and commercial rights for over 80 of the UK's professional clubs as well as managing shareholding or rights in a variety of FA Premier League Football Clubs. Ian has experience within a variety of other areas of sports including Player Representation, Rugby Union, Rugby League and Formula 1. Previously, Ian spent 8 years in Asia, including the role as CEO (Asia) for Pace Micro Technology PLC.
David Batts:
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David Batts, 59, has spent almost 50 years in the hospitality industry. From his appointment as UK Operations Director for Thistle Hotels in 1973 to becoming Managing Director of Radisson Edwardian Hotels in 1985, he has had a distinguished career in the hotel and leisure sector.
He made an interesting career change in 2000 to take up the post of Deputy Chief Executive of Marylebone Cricket Club with a brief to develop the considerable potential of the commercial assets of this famous Club. The subsequent exploitation of the Lord’s brand has led to new developments in the Club’s retail and catering business - the latter was brought in-house in 2005 at the conclusion of a ten-year contract with Sodexho.
David Batts was Chairman of the London Tourist Board from 1998-2000 and has served on the board of the British Tourist Authority, London First and the Central London Partnership. He is a member of the Board of Governors and of the Finance & General Purposes Committee of Pangbourne College.
Olaf Bauer is currently Senior Director Teams Germany at SPORTFIVE GmbH & Co. KG, the leading European sports rights marketing company with a clear focus on TV and sponsorship rights in football. SPORTFIVE supplies clubs, federations and events with its in-depth experience and know-how in professional sports management with headquarters in Hamburg and Paris.
Olaf is responsible for the coordination of all matters regarding the seven German comprehensive marketing clubs including budget and personnel. On a trans-sectoral basis it is also his aim to expand the core business football within SPORTFIVE. Prior to SPORTFIVE, Olaf started his career with Move Sportpromotion before he joined UFA SPORTS as head of Team Hertha in Berlin. Among other projects he was in charge of developing club’s corporate design. He furthered his career with the Berliner Verlag as head of marketing and went on to the football club Hertha BSC as head of marketing and sales.
Dominic Berger :
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Dominic Berger is the founder and CEO of Venue Solutions, a specialist provider of venue management technologies. Established in 2002, he has been involved in overseeing the development of the business including its product set which ranges from CCTV to management software including CRM and services. Dominic has over seven years experience in technology related start-ups and turn-arounds.
Prior to Venue Solutions, Dominic was the managing director of Umbro.com. Whilst at Umbro, Dominic and his team won the contract in open tender to build the FA Premier League website.
Before this, he was the managing director of BlackStar Associates (www.sendit.com), the largest online video and DVD retailer in the UK. He contributed heavily to the company's success (£12 million turnover) and was instrumental in beating Amazon to the highly coveted British Video Association Best Online Retailer award.
Dominic is married with three children
Ross Biddiscombe
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Ross Biddiscombe has worked in the sports domain for almost his entire 30-year career, as a specialist sports writer & author, a public relations consultant and even as a manager of sporting talent. In recent years, he has specialised in sport tourism and his 2004 book The Business of Sport Tourism provided the most comprehensive independent research and analysis ever compiled on this sector of the tourism industry. He is also a regular contributor to magazines such as Golf & Travel, International Travel & Tourism News and Sport Business. His other writing credits include four books on American sports and three B2B books. His sports journalism contributions have spanned national newspaper titles such as The Independent and Daily Express as well as radio and television stations. In the PR world, Ross has worked with brands such as adidas and Wilson along with sporting organisations including the LTA, PGA and NFL and international sportsmen and women like Sir Steve Redgrave, Martin Johnson, Denise Lewis and Tim Henman. In recent years, Ross has been involved in sports management of both footballers and golfers. He also lectures in sports journalism at the London School of Journalism.
Kenny Boyle joined VisitBritain as International Marketing Director in 2003, becoming Commercial Director in September 2005. Prior to VisitBritain, Kenny was Head of Marketing and Sales for NTL’s sports media division, Premium TV. There, he was responsible for the management of digital media marketing for 78 of the UK’s football clubs and launched the country’s first subscription-based online sports broadcast service. Kenny has spent much of his career working within the leisure and travel industry, most notably as Global Marketing Manager for British Airways where he was responsible for the airline’s frequent flyer programme, the Executive Club. Originally a brand and marketing consultant, he has worked with many of the UK’s premier brands, including Rolls Royce, Land Rover, MG, Asprey and Gieves & Hawkes. Kenny has an MBA from Cambridge, post-graduate diplomas in Marketing and Direct Marketing and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Prof. Chris Brady :
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Professor Chris Brady is Associate Dean and Head of External Relations & Business Development at Cass Business School. He is also Head of Business Coaching at Cape Consultants, a firm of service excellence specialists, who include among its clients Virgin Atlantic, Citroen (UK), Egg, ASDA and many others.
Professor Brady spent his early career in a variety of jobs ranging from a line worker at Chryslers in Detroit to a claims clerk in the City, from a land surveyor with the Ordnance Survey to a betting shop manager, from a senior professional footballer to a mature full-time student.
Having graduated in English Literature and Sociology, Professor Brady joined the Royal Navy where he stayed for 16 years gaining on MSc and PhD in International Relations along the way. Professor Brady's areas of expertise are in policy-analysis, the role of teams in organisational structures, corporate coaching, decision-making theory, international organisation and game theory.
As a UEFA 'A' License coach, Professor Brady still maintains coaching ties within the Football Association. He is a member of the Institute of Personnel Development and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Professor Brady is the co-author of the FT/Prentice Hall Publications 'Rules of the Game' and 'The End of the Road' and recently published the much acclaimed book entitled 'The 90 Minute Manager', now in a second edition. www.business-minds.com
Professor Brady is a regular contributor to The Observer Business and BBC Radio 5 business broadcasts. He is an occasional contributor to BBC Business, BBC World Service (Business), CNN, Sky Business News, BBC Newsnight and FT.
Chris Bruce :Email, Website
Chris is responsible for BT's Public WiFi Service, BT Openzone.
Chris has over 20 years' experience of the Telecommunications industry in a range of General management, Product, Marketing and Sales Channel management roles. He has been with BT since 1991 and has he been responsible for business growth in the international data comms, mobile, internet hosting, global voice and now wireless broadband sectors.
Most recently he spent a 12 month secondment with the DTI, responsible for managing the Government's Broadband Britain programme. Prior to this, he was Vice President, Channel and Distribution for BT's pan European Applications Hosting business and a Board Director of Inet Spa (a publicly quoted Italian Hosting business of which BT is a major shareholder). In 1998 he was Sales & Marketing Director of Telfort Business Mobile (The Netherlands), launching the first 1800 GSM service in Holland and was previously Executive Assistant to BT's Chief Executive.
Mark Bullingham
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Mark joined brandRapport (previously GEM Group / Craigie Taylor) from Marketing Activity Ltd in 2000 and is now responsible for strategy and consultancy. Mark’s role is to ensure that all brandRapport projects are designed to meet clients’ brand and business objectives, in addition to undertaking a number of consultancy projects directly for clients. He recently took a sabbatical to study an MBA with a focus in International Marketing, at ESLSCA in Paris, graduating top of his year out of 70 students from 44 countries. Mark has eight years experience in sports marketing, PR and event management, with specific expertise in the Olympics and sailing. Clients include B&Q, UBS, E.ON, Nautor’s Swan, BG Group, and the Swatch Group. Previous clients include GBR Challenge America’s Cup team (media director), Volvo Ocean Race, Diesel World Mountain Biking Circuit, United Airlines, the Portuguese Government, and VERITAS.
Dr Chris Bruton:
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Chris originally pursued an academic career as a scientist taking a double first class honours degree and a doctorate in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University. He is a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
In his early thirties his strong interest in the quality of English Ales and championing of consumers' rights led to his being elected National Chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 1976. CAMRA was described at the time as the most successful consumer group in Western Europe. Chris was the first Chairman to be re-elected for a second term and is a Life Member of CAMRA.
Chris has been involved in Cavendish Hospitality since its inception in 1981. Cavendish is the longest established UK corporate Hospitality Company still under the same ownership and management. Cavendish Hospitality, a founder member of the UK's Corporate Hospitality Association (CHA) won the inaugural CHA Hospitality Agent of the Year Award in 1990 and won further CHA Awards for eight consecutive years in the 1990s. Chris Bruton was Chairman of the CHA from 2000 until 2002.
Chris chaired the Operations Committee of Rugby Hospitality 1999 Ltd which was the Official Corporate Hospitality Operator for Rugby World Cup 1999 in Wales with matches throughout the Home Nations. He was responsible for the successful fulfilment of over 38,000 hospitality packages in all five countries.
Most recently he re-located to Sydney for twenty months as Chief Executive Officer of Rugby Hospitality 2003 Pty Ltd which secured the similar appointment for Rugby World Cup 2003 in Australia. Over 53,000 hospitality packages were delivered at 48 matches in eleven different stadia in seven states across Australia. This was the most complex corporate hospitality operation ever mounted anywhere in the world.
Following his return to the UK in the spring of 2004, Cavendish launched the Hospitality in Partnership initiative. Hospitality in Partnership has since won the exclusive rights to the Clipper 05-06 Round The World Race which started from Liverpool in September 2005 and will be visiting twelve cities around the world over the ensuing ten months. Hospitality in Partnership has also been awarded the rights to the sponsors', VIPs' and commercial hospitality at ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 to be held in the Caribbean in March and April 2007 and a Hospitality Consultancy appointment from the European Athletics Association.
Adrian Burns:
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Adrian Burns is a leading IT Consultant with over 15 years experience of technology design within the hospitality industry. On behalf of InfoGenesis, Adrian has responsibility for IT planning alongside the re-engineering of catering processes within many of the worlds finest stadiums, resulting in much improved Guest Experience, new revenues and improved operational efficiencies. Recent large software projects include Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium & the American Airlines Centre, home to the Dallas Mavericks. He is the recipient of several industry awards within the Retail & Hospitality technology sectors, gained during years consulting with IBM and is widely regarded by his peers as an expert on systems integration and "GEM" (Guest Experience Management), speaking at conferences throughout Europe and the U.S. Adrian played to a high standard of Amateur Rugby and supports his local club Sale Sharks. These days, during his spare time, he can be found on the golf course, attempting to play off a nine handicap.
Oliver Butler is the communications manager at SPORT+MARKT AG working from its London office for all its international communications. SPORT+MARKT has since 1997 worked in the field of sports and sponsorship from its base in Cologne, Germany expanding its office through client needs into Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Singapore. He joined in 2003 after previously working as the editor of the football business newsletter, Soccer Investor.
SPORT+MARKT has provided consultancy to both site owners and brands interested in naming rights in countries all over Europe, including Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Netherlands. This services includes an objective calculation of the value of a stadium naming rights deal which has been done for in over ten venues around Europe, including the Allianz Arena in Munich, the largest such deal in Europe.
Roddy J Carr:
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A successful amateur career in golf led to ten years as a not so successful tournament professional on the European and African circuits during the 70’s. A new career in Sports Management commenced in the 80’s at IMG in Cleveland Ohio, running the LPGA client division and worldwide recruiting, This was followed by three years in SE ASIA setting up IMG’s first office in the region as Director of Marketing.
The second half of the 80’s saw a move back to Europe managing world-class cyclists Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly as well representing Jack Nicklaus Golf Design in Europe and the Irish Rugby Football Union as marketing consultant.
The 90’s were spent principally in Spain setting up a joint venture company ’Amen Corner’ with golfer Severiano Ballesteros to promote 25 PGA European Tour Events in Spain and manage him. Amen Corner jointly staged the 1997 Ryder Cup in Andalucia.
The late 90’s and new millennium saw a move to Barbados in the Caribbean to consult on the spectacular Sandy Lane Golf Resort and in 1998 investing in and building the Barbados Golf Club, Barbados’s first public championship golf course, in cooperation with the Government and local shareholders. 2002 saw a return to IMG in the USA to set up a new Tourism Division within IMG Consulting, IMG Tourism.
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- Personally responsible for selling over US$110,000,000 of sponsorships worldwide.
- Steering Committee Member on IAGTO, International Association of Golf Tour Operators
Dr Simon Chadwick:
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Simon is one of the founders and a Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, and is also Programme Director of Birkbeck College's MSc Sport Management and the Football Industry. His research interests are based around sports marketing, in particular the management of sponsorship, advertising and marketing communication strategies and consumer behavior. Simon is currently working on a series of projects in the latter area, most notably with a number of Europe's leading football clubs. He is Executive Editor of the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, Chair of the Academy of Marketing's Sport Marketing Special Interest Group, and a lead examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Sports Marketing Certificate. He is an Editorial Board member for Sport Marketing Europe, the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Management, and the Journal of Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education, and is a member of the Advisory Panel for Sport und Markt's European Sport Sponsorship Award. Simon is co-editor of the following books: The Business of Sport Management, The Marketing of Sport (both Financial Times Prentice Hall) and International Cases in the Business of Sport (Elsevier).
Rachael Church:
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Rachael Church is Managing Director of ArkSports, Editor of e-newsletter Sport and Technology (www.sportandtechnology.com) and the author of several widely-acclaimed reports including Sport on the Internet (June 2000), the Global Business of Sports Television (March 2003), Bidding and Hosting: The Guide to Successful Sporting Events (October 2003) and The Global Business of Poker (May 2006). She was the guest contributor to Mediametrie's One Sport Year on the Television in the World 2003 (May 2004) and co-author of Mobile Technologies: The Opportunities for Sport (SportBusiness, April 2005).
Rachael is the former Director of Consulting for the SportBusiness Group in London and previous Editor of both the European Sponsorship Newsletter and PACT Magazine for the Producers' Alliance for Cinema and Television.
She is the former Editor of several financial newsletters including Emerging Markets Focus, Cash Management Focus, Financial Times World Accounting Report and Financial Times Fraud Report. She was also Head of Reports at Financial Times Media & Telecoms for two years. Rachael is a frequent speaker and chair at conferences and also a regular guest lecturer at universities. Rachael has a BA Honours degree from Queen's University Belfast and an MPhil from Exeter University.
Robert Charles:
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Robert Charles, formerly Controller of Sport at Yorkshire Television, has extensive experience of sport on commercial television. He was joint executive producer of Euro ’96 for ITV and the BBC, and has been executive producer for both rugby union and snooker on ITV. As an ITV producer, he has also covered the Olympics, FIFA World Cups, Rugby Union World Cups and European Football Championships. He has advised major retail brands on various football initiatives and acted as consultant to sports governing bodies.
Since joining Five’s programming team in July 1997, Robert has maintained and expanded Five’s high quality, broad portfolio of sport for its viewers. Live football has long been a signature of the channel with over 180 International and Club matches. He has also expanded Five’s late night sports coverage with the addition of NFL, NHL and NBA to the existing portfolio of Major League Baseball, Extreme Sports and Motor Sport. More recently Five have become the ECB’s terrestrial partner for Test match highlights from 2006.
Pippa Collett:
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Pippa Collett is a strategic sponsorship consultant at Spectrum Sponsorship, where she leverages extensive client-side experience to assist corporations in achieving better returns from their sponsorship investments.
Collett’s corporate career includes 5 years with Shell where she led the sponsorship agenda for 26 European markets. The portfolio included Ferrari in Formula One and the Athens Olympics.
Previously, Pippa held a variety of roles with American Express, with an arts and entertainment focus, including sponsorship of the Oliver Awards and Covent Garden Festival. She also developed strategic marketing partnerships with the PGA, Disney and the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Her work on sponsorship evaluation was recognised last year with a Hollis Award for Best Use of Research in Sponsorship. A Cranfield MBA, Chartered Marketer, European Sponsorship Association Board Director, Prince’s Trust special advisor and regular commentator on sponsorship issues, in her spare time Pippa is also a competitive carriage driver.
Dr William Cooper:
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Dr William Cooper is the founder and principal consultant at independent interactive television consultancy informitv. As an independent consultant on digital media strategy and implementation, he advises clients ranging from start-up companies to major corporations. A regular contributor to industry publications and international conferences, he is co-author of IPTV: Broadband meets broadcast-The network television revolution. As head of interactive at BBC Broadcast, William managed the successful launch and operational delivery of the BBC's interactive services on satellite, terrestrial and cable television, as well as the day-to-day operation of the BBC web site. He was previously product manager for online services at the Press Association news agency and led the development of Ananova, successfully launched as a standalone business, subsequently acquired by Orange. William started his career as a broadcast journalist, following a PhD in Communications and a degree in English from the University of Leeds.
Rob Cornilles:
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In 1991, Robert Cornilles accepted the challenge of marketing and selling for the Los Angeles Clippers, who at the time had the worst record in the NBA. His successes in that environment led to opportunities in all sports to train executives in customer-friendly sales and marketing practices. In 1995, Rob decided to incorporate his proprietary techniques and founded Game Face, Inc., to change the way sports organizations promote their products.
What was a novel idea then has turned Rob's company into the undisputed authority in executive training for the sports community. He has personally worked and consulted with more than 350 professional organizations and 15,000 executives worldwide. No single sports executive has been invited into more front offices of sporting organizations to observe and offer advice regarding best business practices than Mr. Cornilles.
Simon Crane:
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Simon Crane joined Tickets.com in July 2004 in the role of Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and
Africa and was part of the team that successfully sold the business in early 2005 to Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Prior to joining Tickets.com Crane has served as Group Chief Executive of UK sports team and venue owner Loftus Road plc (QPR FC and London Wasps RFC), as Marketing Director of Jaguar Racing (F1) and in both European and global roles in the Sports Marketing Division of The Coca-Cola Company based out of London and Atlanta where he worked on properties that included the Olympic Games, FIFA Football World Cup, Euro ‘96 Rugby and Cricket World Cup’s, Wimbledon and Tour de France, etc.
Simon’s 15 year career in sports marketing began at Bass Brewers Limited where he was the companies first Head of Sponsorship and led the original Carling Black Label entry into the FA Premier League sponsorship. Prior to joining Bass Simon was an Army Officer for 7 years serving in multiple countries around the world.Simon is a non-executive director of a number of entities including Infoscreen International plc.
Ben recently took over as the UK General Manager of S-COMM , the international network of leading fact-based, sponsorship consultancies. With a background in marketing communications and managing six-figure multi-faceted research projects on behalf of many of the world’s largest employers (including DHL, Pitney Bowes, the US Air Force, the EU and USPS) Ben sought a life incorporating his passion for sport.
S-COMM ’s current projects involve a wide variety of research-based insights ranging from the strategic formation of sponsorship strategies to the maximising of hospitality benefits to the valuation of sponsorship properties.
A keen sportsman Ben can regularly be found kicking, throwing and hitting all manner of shaped balls to varying degrees of success. Seeking inspiration, he can regularly be found at the Causeway Stadium providing vocal support to London Wasps RUFC and Wycombe Wanderers FC.
Simon is a senior manager at Spectrum Strategy Consultants with a core focus on developing Spectrum's media and sports practices. Extensive sports project experience includes leading Spectrum's work for the FA Premier League to design and execute a strategy for the sale of their international mobile rights; setting up a new media division for UEFA tasked with creating an online presence - this included launching the uefa.com website; creating a premium rights strategy for Vodafone; working with the German football league to appraise new media revenue opportunities; developing the concept for a major new sports event; and a review of the regulatory framework for sports rights for the South African government to identify levers used to regulate the sports rights market . Prior to joining Spectrum, Simon worked for Arthur Andersen as a consultant across a range of media and advertising clients.
Tim Crow:
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Tim's career in sports marketing began in 1986 when he was recruited from the Mirror Group by the Test & County Cricket Board - now known as the England & Wales Cricket Board. Throughout the 1990s he was Sales & Marketing Director at Sports & Outdoor Media, where he was instrumental in the company becoming the UK market leader in stadium advertising and sponsorship.In 1999 he joined Karen Earl Sponsorship, whose clients include Coca-Cola, Diageo and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
Among his recent projects are the negotiation of the four-year extension of the RBS 6 Nations sponsorship, Coca-Cola's sponsorship of the Football League, and the British Airways and Powerade sponsorships of the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.
Gavin Dein:
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Gavin Dein is on a mission. He wants to pay for people's passions as long as they are legal. Through his company, Reward, Gavin and his team are set on helping evolutionise the loyalty industry.
In October 2005, Gavin announced at the Loyalty World Conference that over the last year with the help of the UK's largest banks, Reward has developed a proprietary trade secret technology that operates a loyalty programme without the need to issue loyalty cards.
This new mechanism called the 'Cardless Reward Programme' has taken both the retail and sports industry by storm with over 80 clubs set to launch in the 2006/7 season and 1000's of retailers across the UK participating.
Prior to founding Reward, Gavin worked at Arsenal Football Club on sponsorship and fan relationship management.
Iain is a Senior Consultant with pmpLEGACY, the global event consultancy division of PMP, and specialises in legacy planning and implementation for major sports events. Iain was a member of the successful bid team for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, responsible for developing the legacy proposals for the planned new venues. He was also responsible for delivering temporary infrastructure and project managing the IOC Evaluation Commission's visit to the proposed London Olympic Park in February 2005. More recent projects include leading a team on site in Abu Dhabi to develop proposals for a major sports-related development and undertaking a risk analysis for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games bid. Prior to joining PMP, he led a multi-disciplinary team developing bids for local authority leisure PFI projects on behalf of Leisure Connection, one of the UK’s largest private leisure management contractors. Iain is a competitive rower and qualified rowing coach. He is currently the Chairman of the Legacy Working Group for the 2006 Eton World Rowing Championships. Iain is also an MBA graduate from the University of Cambridge and a trustee of the Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust.
Employment history :
1980-96 Variety of teaching posts culminating in Deputy Headship of Saffron Walden County High School –a 1800 strong mixed comprehensive 11-18 school in North Essex.
1996-2000 Director of Rugby at Saracens FC
2000-to date CEO at Harlequins FC Harlequins have an award-winning matchday experience, which includes a variety of Corporate Hospitality opportunities. NEC have sponsored Quins since 1996 and their partnership with the NEC Harlequins represents the first ever corporate sponsorship of an English rugby club. Furthermore, Quins became the first British side to win the European Shield in 2001, defeating Narbone 42-33 in the final. Reaching the final itself was a tremendous achievement as the previous four finals had all been contested by two French sides. They then became the first team to win the tournament twice; defeating Montferrand 27-26 in the final of the renamed Parker Pen Challenge Cup on 22nd May 2004. The clubs instinct for the expansive game of rugby doubtless accounts for its liking of the seven-a-side version of the sport. In the premier tournament (Middlesex Sevens) no other club has won on more than 13 occasions. This includes four wins in a row between 1926 and 1929 and setting a unique record of five consecutive victories from 1986 to 1990.
Roger Draper :
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Roger joined Sport England in September 2002 as Chief Operating Officer, before becoming Chief Executive in January 2003. Under his inspirational leadership Sport England has gone from strength to strength, and is now firmly established as the strategic lead for sport in England. Roger oversees a £480 million per annum budget and a team of 270 people across the country. His portfolio includes overseeing major projects such as the National Stadium at Wembley, Team England's 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and the London 2012 Olympic Bid, as well as a wide range of community sport programmes aimed at driving up sports participation throughout England. Known for his strong management skills in the business of sport, Roger has also enjoyed success on the field of play, gaining international honours in Rugby League and Tennis.
William Fenton:
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With 14 years experience in evaluating Olympics, FIFA World Cup and F1 sponsorships for Sports Marketing Surveys and as Head of Research at Sponsorship Research International/ISL, William Fenton runs The Sponsorship Proposal Company, which improves the quality of sponsorship proposals to the benefit of sponsors and sponsorship seekers.
He is also Editor of The World Sponsorship Monitor and has been published in The International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship & The Chronicle of Sponsorship Marketing and lectures at the Vlekho Business School in Brussels. Industry speaking and conference credits include Sponsorship Europe 1995, Dutch Sponsorship Summit 1998, SportBusiness 2001, European Sponsorship Conference 2002, Swedish Sponsorship Conference 2003, Sponsorship and Event Marketing Conference Singapore 2005 & tutor and workshop leader at the IEG Event Marketing Conference in Chicago. He has appeared on CNBC television's Money and Sport and holds the Market Research Society Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research Practice.
Darrell McLennan Fordyce :Email, Website
Darrell McLennan Fordyce is Head of Sports & Games Brand Marketing for Orange. He currently manages the contractual rights of Orange's commercial partnerships with Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City football clubs, Frank Lampard and title sponsorship of the Orange AIM Series and BRITS, the UK's snowboarding series. He also takes responsibility for marketing all of Orange's sports and games content across the UK, from 94% of football league clubs through to events such as the Tour de France and the launch of Sonic the Hedgehog on mobile.
Darrell has worked across a number of sports, activating brand campaigns, exploiting media and managing international events. His experience is extensive, from the Orange Arrows F1 team through G-class sailing and the Volvo Ocean Race to Camel Trophy. Prior to working in sports marketing Darrell graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst seeing active service in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.
Jeff Foulser:
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Jeff Foulser is currently Chairman of Sunset+Vine Productions, the leading independent sports producer.
S+V produced Channel 4's cricket coverage for seven years culminating in the amazing Ashes series of 2005. S+V also produces a daily sports service for Five plus their live football output. They also produce horseracing for the BBC and several successful sponsored series for worldwide distribution.
Jeff began his career with ITV Sport, becoming editor of The Big Match football programme in 1976. He worked on all of ITV's major event coverage including the Olympic Games, football World Cups, European Championships and other major sports events.
In 1989 he joined the indie producer Sunset+Vine, becoming Managing Director in 1996. He built Sunset+Vine into a business turning over £20 million per annum before taking the CEO role at parent company The Television Corporation plc in 2001.
Under his stewardship, the company disposed of several loss making businesses, moving from a position of £17 million of debt to net cash of c. £6 million by February 2005.
Jonathon Gregory :
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Jonathan studied both his BSc. and MSc. at Loughborough University before joining Coca Cola in Sales and Marketing. He then swapped sides and joined PepsiCo primarily working on the Walkers brand in their Marketing function. He worked for PepsiCo for 8 years, managing their sport related properties and the Gary Lineker ad campaigns before finishing with PepsiCo as their Sponsorship Controller. He then left to join Puma as Head of Team sports Marketing managing teams and players across the UK and Europe before being tempted to join Wembley Stadium as Marketing & Commercial Director in the spring of 2004.
At Wembley he oversees the marketing, commercial and PR aspects of the stadium project, plus the sales of the Club Wembley 10 year seat licences and corporate boxes
Philippe Grothe
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Philipp is widely considered as one of the leading TV experts in the football industry. A qualified lawyer, Philipp joined UFA Sports (now Sportfive) in 1993 where he was instrumental in building the International Business of this agency. In 2000 he became Managing Director of the Football Division of IMG, where amongst others he was responsible for the Champions League bids and the fast world-wide expansion of IMG's football business. In his career he has been responsible for the sales of more than a thousand premier football events and enjoys excellent relationships with the key decision makers and broadcasters within the sports industry.
Philipp established the Kentaro rights agency in September 2003 and in two years has built this agency into one of the leading players in the sports rights industry. Kentaro currently represents the international television rights of over 10 international football federations, several leading European football clubs and Europe's premier boxing stable Sauerland Event. Kentaro also recently signed a deal to represent all domestic television rights of Swedish football. Kentaro is based in Wil, Switzerland, with further offices in London, Hannover, Stockholm and Budapest.
Stephen Hall:
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Stephen joined McDonald's as a part time staff member in Stockport in 1980. Following three years at University in Leeds Stephen lived in America and Italy before returning to McDonald's as a Trainee Manager in 1989. Stephen worked in the operational side of the business until he moved to become Community Affairs Manager for Scotland and Northern England. He was appointed to his current position of Head of Sports Sponsorship in 2001 and is responsible for McDonald's partnership with the four national Football Associations and the British Olympic Committee.
Jonathon Hall:
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Jonathan joined The FA as its Director of Governance in September 2004. The FA Governance Division for which he is responsible oversees a wide range of matters including the following: discipline, compliance, financial advisory unit, registrations, competitions, refereeing and football administration.
Prior to joining The FA, Jonathan was Secretary and Legal Officer at the Rugby Football Union for just under 5 years where he was directly responsible for all legal matters and company secretarial support to the RFU Council and Board as well as overseeing HR matters and the administration of disciplinary arrangements.
Prior to the RFU Jonathan worked as a senior in-house lawyer for the sports agency and management company IMG following his qualification as a solicitor with Baker & McKenzie
Tyson Henly joined UEFA in March 2005 as Head of Marketing Services. In his role, Tyson Henly manages and strengthens strategic relationships with UEFA's sponsors and commercial partners around the UEFA Eurotop programme. Prior to joining UEFA, Tyson Henly, worked for TEAM Marketing, UEFA's exclusive agency, where he was Head of Marketing and Account Management., driving sales, delivery and development of the UEFA Champions League competition. Tyson Henly is an acknowledged Marketing industry expert. He started his career with Allied-Domecq, as a brand manager in the drinks marketing industry. Tyson Henly holds a Business Degree from Southbank University specializing in Marketing and International Marketing.
David Hindley :
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Dr David Hindley is based at Nottingham Trent University, where he is the Academic Team Leader for Maths, Science and Sport in the School of Education. He lectures on the BA (Hons) Business, Leisure and Sports Education degree programme, providing students with a sociological introduction to sport, as well as focusing on aspects such as leisure theory, sports development, government and state involvement in sport, and forecasting sport and leisure trends.
David joined NTU in September 2002, fresh from having completed a PhD just down the road at Loughborough University. The doctoral dissertation - under the supervision of Professor Barrie Houlihan - examined the utility of the concept of governance in relation to sport, focusing on three sports: football, cricket and swimming.
David's research interests include sports governance and regulation, sports policy, stakeholder analysis, fan democracy and supporter trusts. He has written a number of journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on the subject of sports governance, and in particular the growing Supporter Trust movement which is highlighting interesting questions about accountability, democracy and decision-making processes within the game's governing bodies.
Dr Hindley has also applied this knowledge through playing an active role within Notts County Supporters Trust, which is widely acclaimed to have played a significant role in saving the world's oldest professional Football League club from extinction. The Trust was announced as runners-up (out of 123 Trusts) in the Supporters Direct Trust of the Year award 2004, a period when David was the Trust Chair. As part of his work on the Trust Board, David has helped to organise a number of community-focused events at the Football Club.
Marcus Hochhaus:
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Marcus Hochhaus, 36, has been in charge of Business Development for PLAZAMEDIA since the end of 2003, and has also been responsible for New Media since 2004. Marcus Hochhaus played a major role in successfully expanding the services of our sport production business beyond television into the fields of the Internet and mobile end devices. With a degree in business management, Marcus Hochhaus had worked for KirchMedia in the joint ventures department and as a project manager for internal consulting projects since 1988. During the planned merger of KirchMedia KGaA and ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, he managed the project office and went on to tackle diverse projects in the framework of the sale of KirchMedia KGaA.
Rebecca Hopkins
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Rebecca Hopkins has over 16 years marketing experience and has worked with clients from Lloyds TSB to the BBC, The Scout Association to EDF Energy. Having stared her career at News International, Rebecca spent 10 years in publishing both client and agency side. She moved into sport and helped manage BT’s sponsorship of the Millennium Stadium and Rugby World Cup ’99. Returning to agency life, Rebecca devised and implemented the first Sport Industry Awards after which she identified the industry’s need for affordable expertise. Consequently, she established ENS, a dedicated sports marketing agency in June 2002. ENS clients span sports personalities, corporate brands, charities involved in sport and National Governing Bodies.
David Hudson:
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Upon attaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Economics from The University of Kent, Canterbury, David returned to the Isle of Man to spend three years with
Singer and Friedlander and a further two years with IFG International, a
Corporate Services Provider on the Island.
In 1992 David left the Island for the United Kingdom, and after a brief
spell as Sales Director of a small private company, he joined Mercuri Urval,
a leading international management consultancy. David spent the next nine years working alongside the corporate finance and banking community,
providing due diligence on management's capability to meet the expectations of the venture capital company or bank funding the management buy out or buy in.In May 2006 David returned to the Isle of Man, and joined MeesPierson Intertrust as Business Development Manager.
Jeff joined Sportsworld in May 2005 as Group Operations Director. He oversees the Hospitality and Travel & Event Services divisions, and also has responsibility for ICT. Sportsworld is a leading international event management company specialising in corporate hospitality and niche travel and tour operation. Established in 1980, Sportsworld creates memorable experiences for blue-chip clients through bespoke event solutions and at all the major sporting and cultural occasions around the globe. Prior to joining Sportsworld, Jeff ran Sports Alliance Management, a business consultancy specialising in the sport and leisure sector. Clients included National Governing Bodies, Sport England, Government departments, sports charities and private sector brands. Sports Alliance was commissioned to support Lord Carter of Coles in his national review of sport for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Jeff is fluent in French and Italian, and holds a BA Hons from Oxford University and an MBA with Distinction from London Business School. Jeff is a former professional tennis player on the ATP Tour, a trustee of Access Sport, a registered sports charity which promotes increased youth participation, and an advisor to Christians in Sport.
Glenn has been at Software4Sport for nearly 15 years and has been instrumental in driving the TALENT Sport system forwards throughout this time. TALENT Sport is a ticketing system with optional add-on modules, such as CRM, web sales and automated telephone sales. It is used by Liverpool FC, Rangers FC, Durham CCC and Bradford Bulls rugby club amongst others.
Formerly from a product design background, Glenn still has a hands on approach to the development of the TALENT Sport product and business model.
Martin Johnston:
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Martin Johnston (42) is a Senior Account Director at MEC:Sponsorship, responsible principally for managing the Norwich Union UK Athletics account. He has also worked with Visa Europe on the Team Visa Olympic programme and the Visa Paralympic World Cup.
Martin has worked in most aspects of the media, in many different sporting environments. He joined MEC from British Eurosport, where he was Head of PR & Communications.
He has also spent time as the Photo Chief at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, the Head of Sport at Shandwick PR, and as the Senior Press Officer at the RFU. He was a Media Manager on both the Rugby World Cup in 1999 and EURO 96.
He started his career in grassroots sport, coaching football and cricket at Brixton Recreation Centre before joining the Allsport photo agency (now Getty images) as an Assignments Editor.
Dan Jones :
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Dan is lead Partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte. He manages the activities of the specialist Group across all its services, but with a particular emphasis on Consulting and Corporate Development. He works only on sport related projects, his first sports business consulting project being the review of the Football League in England in early 1997.
During his career, Dan has advised a number of high profile clients in the sports industry, including clubs, leagues, governing bodies, central & local government, financiers & investors and sports marketing companies across the world, on a range of issues including strategic, commercial, financial, regulatory, organisational and structural matters.
Dan is a regular speaker and expert commentator on sports business matters and is the editor of Deloitte's widely respected publications, the Annual Review of Football Finance, Football Money League and the Comparative Review of Sports Finances.
Ashok Karanth:
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Ashok Karanth is General Manager - Marketing for Sporting Frontiers India and is responsible for the marketing of various sporting rights and properties. Sporting Frontiers is a subsidiary of Frontiers Group, an international sports, entertainment, music and media marketing agency with a worldwide network of offices in the UK, Australia, India, China and South Africa.
Based in Bangalore, India, Ashok works with leading Indian and multinational clients, sports organizations and rights holders. Ashok is responsible for the marketing of multi-year cricket stadium advertising rights for major cricket grounds in India, as well as developing new properties and sponsorship opportunities for leading clients.
Previously, Ashok worked for a leading IT company in the US and India as a strategic IT consultant and Account Manager. Ashok holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.
As Client Services Director Andy’s role is to manage and grow the portfolio of current clients in the agency. In addition he also works on new business and acts as a spokesperson for the agency. Andy has 8 years experience in Sports Marketing across a variety of clients, primarily Vodafone and Powergen. Having joined the agency in 1997 Andy spent the first two years as Team Liaison for Vodafone with the England Cricket Team. Subsequently he managed Vodafone’s alliance with Manchester United and was responsible for the media programme and coordination with the club. From 2001 Andy has also worked on the Powergen portfolio of properties including Rugby Union, Rugby League and Ipswich Town Football Club as well as developing their sponsorship strategy.
Donal Kilalea:
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Promoseven Sports Marketing is headed up by Donal Kilalea, Partner in Fortune Promoseven UAE and CEO, of the Promoseven Sports Marketing. His experience is over 22 years in the Middle East, and includes the following sporting experiences :
1. Leading the team of the Public Relations for the last 14 years for the ATP authorised Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai.
2. The Tournament Director the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby 7s for the last 3 years, successfully building the tournament from 17,000 spectators to 60,000 spectators in 2005.
3. Created Fortune Promoseven Advertising and Public Relations agency in Dubai in 1986, and formally introduced Promoseven Sports Marketing as a specialist division to the UAE.
4 .Worked successfully and run invitational football tournaments between the UAE, Japan, Egypt and Morrocco.
5. Worked with UAE Swimming Federation to prepare and present bids for the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona 2003 and 2005.
Kieron Kilbride
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Kieron Kilbride is General Manager at FL Interactive (FLi), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Football League. FLi is responsible for building, hosting, maintaining and commercialising website, broadband and mobile services for 77 participating football clubs. The business was formerly a joint venture between the League and Premium TV. Prior to his role at FLi, Kieron was responsible for the acquisition of a range of content for leading ISP AOL UK. Achievements included the successful conclusion of broadband rights agreements with a number of UK football clubs, with Rugby World Cup and with Wimbledon. Before joining AOL UK he was responsible for business development at ESPN Internet Ventures, and was senior analyst specialising in sports business at Kagan World Media.
Ardi Kolah
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is a leading sponsorship, licensing and marketing practitioner and independently ranked by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of the top 50 thinkers in the world on marketing. He holds the prestigious Hollis Award for sponsorship and has over 16 year’s sponsorship experience. As the best selling author for Sport Business, his work on sponsorship and licensing has been sold in over 50 countries worldwide. He regularly appears on national and international TV, radio and press to comment on sponsorship, licensing and related marketing issues. He holds an international Masters Degree in law from King’s College, London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former director of the European Sponsorship Association. He is the author of Maximising the Value of Sponsorship, Maximsing the Value of Licensing & Merchandising and his new report is Sponsorship: Strategies for Maximising Return on Investment, to be published shortly by Sport Business.
Dr. G. Lynn Lashbrook :
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Dr. G. Lynn Lashbrook, President and Founder of Sports Management Worldwide. Sports Management Worldwide is the #1 leader in online sports career training. Assisting hundreds of students with their "dream sports job" in professional sporting venues throughout the world.
Sports Management Worldwide is also a full service international sports agency with 200 Agents worldwide, representing hundreds of professional athletes.
Dr. Lashbrook has been working and teaching in Sports Management for over 30 years as a University Athletic Director, Academic Advisor, and Coach. Currently a certified NFL sports agent having represented over 25 NFL clients. He co-authored "FAN ETIQUETTE", and spearheads the Oregon Baseball Campaign to entice a MLB team to relocate in Oregon. For the legal profession he provides an online CLE "Winning with Ethics" seminar. Dr. Lashbrook is also Director of the Sports Management MBA program with the Northcental University in Arizona. Internationally, he has lectured on campuses and sports business seminars throughout the world.
Mike Lee:
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After completing a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Peter’s College, Oxford University, Mike embarked on a career in Government and Media Relations. This included working as a Parliamentary Campaigns Officer with The Labour Party and then as Special Adviser to Rt Hon David Blunkett MP. Moving to consultancy Mike became Deputy MD of a leading UK agency specialising in integrated political and media communications. His clients ranged across many sectors, including broadcasting and sports and leisure, where he worked as the Press Chief for the English Premier League. In 2000 Mike was appointed Director of Communications and Public Affairs for UEFA, European football’s governing body, with overall responsibility for corporate communications and external relations, including links to Governments, the EU and international media.
In 2003 Mike moved back to the UK to take up the role of Director of Communications and Public Affairs at London 2012 where he co-ordinated all external relations and campaigning elements of London’s Olympic bid. Mike co-chaired the creative team, and led the international media and on-line campaign, high-level political liaison and oversaw the work of the bid’s sporting ambassadors. Mike was official bid spokesman and special adviser to the Chairman (Lord Sebastian Coe).
In 2005 Mike was voted PR Week’s “PR Professional of the Year” and was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honour List. In 2006 he became CEO of the newly formed Vero Communications Ltd.
Lingling Liu:
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Lingling LIU, founder of Sportscom Consulting, is a business consultant with expertise on areas where sports and media interact. She is an expert in the sports marketing management and TV rights deals in the Chinese market.
Her recent projects include advising an international marketing communications firm to bid for media relations management contract for Beijing 2008 Olympics, organizing a world-class celebrity charity football match event in Shanghai and managing its rights sales, working in the press operations for Torino Winter Olympics, and serving Paris 2012 as Asia Regional Public Relations Representative. She has also assisted international rights holders to make inroads into the growing television market in China.
Having come from a 8-year editorial experience with China Central Television Sports Channel (CCTV 5), she joined Beijing Olympic Bidding Committee in 2000 as Assistant Director of the Press and Publicity Department. After the triumphant bid in 2001, she started her independent sports consulting career and has been engaged in many Olympic Games and FIFA events in various ways with focus in media operations. She will serve the upcoming 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany this June as FIFA media officer.
Ms. LIU owns a MBA degree in Football Business from Liverpool University.
John Luff:
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John specialises in helping organisations identify and promote their corporate social responsibility (CSR) credentials.
John is a frequent speaker worldwide on the topics of brand, CSR and communications.
Previously John was Head of Global CSR for BT (British Telecom). In this role he helped BT achieve its 3rd top rating on the DOW Jones Sustainability Index - the first time BT had achieved this on a global basis.
John was also Head of Global Brand for BT. He developed the brand positioning for BT and its joint ventures worldwide. During this period John was responsible for the BT Global Challenge ("The World's Toughest Yacht Race").
Other senior roles have been in the fields of occupational psychology and organisational development. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Prince of Wales Business and the Environment programme.
John is an associate faculty member of the British Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Gerry founded MDM.TV, Europe’s leading trans-stadia TV network, in 2002. Located in Tier 1 football clubs, the network aggregates match day audiences generating significant, engaged audience numbers for third party brand communication and advertising. MDM.TV communicates with over 1.2 million fans per month and offer mobile interactivity between audience and screen alongside syndicated and proprietary media content. Prior to the establishment of MDM.TV his career spanned 20 years in experiential marketing, music and fashion.
Craig McLellan is a Director of Franklin + Andrews and heads up the sports and leisure arm of the business, Franklin Sports Business (FSB), providing cost and commercial management consultancy services to clients across the globe.Craig’s Management role in FSB has seen him involved in the commercial management of some of the most high profile sports projects, including Wembley National Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Glasgow Arena, Inter Milan and for costing all of the permanent, temporary and demountable venues for London’s Olympic bid for 2012. In addition to this Franklin Sports Business have extensive expertise in a wide range of sporting venues, including football, rugby, cricket, horse racing, leisure centres, athletics and even sky diving, ranging in scale and value from small refurbishments to large multi purpose national stadia.The core service of FSB is in calculating the capital contribution costs with a key focus on getting the sums right. In doing so FSB use their understanding of the wider business equation to ensure that clients invest in areas of best return to deliver an optimum solution.
Randal McLister :
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Randal McLister is the 48 year-old founder of Scotcomms, the St.Andrews-based parent company of TeamCard. He has had a varied career which includes engineering and sales roles with the Royal Navy, British Telecom and DeLaRue Fortronic.
He formed Scotcomms in 1993 to design and deliver end-to-end card based solution from a single source. This was achieved with an adaptable suite of smartcard products addressing many sectors, including; Fuel retail, energy pre-payment, regional/town cards, mobile top-up and retail loyalty.
In 1996 he created TeamCard, one smartcard for every possible interaction a fan can have with their football club, (Access, ticketing, eCash, loyalty, etc.) Since its first deployment in 2000, TeamCard is now the market leader within UK football, clients include; Bolton, Chelsea, Palace, Millwall, Ipswich, Celtic, Leeds, Everton etc.
His Company is the recipient of several industry awards and he is regarded by his peers an expert on transaction systems design.
Jan Menneken:
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Jan holds a German Business Degree (Diplom Kaufmann) Universities of Mannheim and an American MBA (CUNY, Baruch College. He worked briefly for McKinsey before joining UFA, a part of the Bertelsmann Group. He was responsible for the areas of Tennis, Golf and US Sports with responsibility for a turnover of DM 100 million. In tennis the portfolio of rights included Wimbledon, Davis Cup, the US, the German Open men and women. In 1997 Jan joined the International Tennis Federation in London as Head of Television. Jan is now the Executive Director Commercial of the ITF and is responsible for all commercial activities of the International Tennis Federation. Activities of the department include sponsorship sales for Davis Cup and Fed Cup, and for all other ITF activities. Furthermore the department is responsible for TV sales and TV servicing for all ITF properties. The above activities currently generate eight figures US Dollar income per year for the ITF.
Stewart Mison:
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Stewart Mison joined Octagon CSI, the television arm of the Inter-Public Group owned sports and entertainment company OCTAGON, as the divisional head of the BRANDCASTING. The division is responsible for the creation, production and distribution of Advertiser Funded Programming and servicing the needs of advertising clients, agencies, federations and broadcasters in the total programme production mix. In addition Mison looks after the media research and evaluation for the Octagon rights properties and works closely with the sister media agencies in the IPG in building leveraged distribution and media arbitrage exploitation platforms. Mison’s background includes tenure at TWI where he worked closely with Nike, Coca-Cola and the International Olympic Committee on programme funding and bartered syndication. After leaving TWI he has been involved in the development and sales of music programming, the executive production of a large format light entertainment programme for ITV, international offshore powerboat racing, and film drama financing. He has worked in a consulting capacity to a number of Blue Chip multi-nationals advising on the use of AFP as a part their marketing plans.
Gareth Moore :
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Gareth Moore, an account director with SPORT+MARKT is responsible for driving the company's growth in the UK and International markets. SPORT+MARKT has since 1997 worked in the field of sports and sponsorship from its base in Cologne, Germany expanding its office through client needs into UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Singapore.
Gareth has a strong business track record, with a flair for establishing and building profitable revenue streams in the UK, Europe and the Far East. His career has seen him develop strong sales & marketing principles and leadership capabilities whilst working for companies such as Fujitsu ICL, NEC, Royal Doulton and Altran Technologies. Prior to joining SPORT+MARKT, Gareth was acting as a business consultant for a boutique communications research consultancy.
His love of sport has helped him achieve national honours in both rugby union and football, and he still manages to unpack his boots on a Saturday for London Welsh.
Will Muirhead :
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Will Muirhead founded Sportev in 1999. Sportev is now the leading provider of wireless and broadband solutions to the sports industry. Over the past six years, Sportev has launched pioneering initiatives with many of the world's leading sports rights holders, including FIFA, FA Premier League, AC Milan, Eredivisie, England Rugby, Racing UK and the International Tennis Federation and currently delivers sports video content solutions to over 60 network operators in 41 territories worldwide.
Stephen Nuttell:
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Stephen Nuttall is the Director of Business Development for British Sky Broadcasting. He is responsible for identifying and securing new commercial opportunities for Sky across the full range of its activities. He has a particular focus on all new platforms and the non-traditional distribution of content for Sky e.g. DSL, broadband and mobile.
Prior to Sky, Stephen was one of the founders of the sports website business, Sportal.com, voted the Number 1 E-Business in Europe by The Sunday Times in 2000. Before Sportal, Stephen was Business Development Director of Telepiu, the Italian Pay-TV operation that now forms part of Sky Italia.
Prof. Christine Oughton
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Christine Oughton is Professor of Management and Director of the Football Governance Research Centre at Birkbeck, University of London. Christine completed her university education at the University of Cambridge where she took a PhD in Economics, having previously taken a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Politics at the University of East Anglia. Before joining Birkbeck she was Lecturer in Economics at the University of Glasgow and Senior Lecturer in Industrial Economics at the University of Birmingham. At Birmingham, she was also Director of the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy and Co-ordinator of Research for the West Midlands Regional Innovation Strategy. Between 2001-04 she was Head of the Department of Management at Birkbeck. Christine joined Birkbeck in 1999 and has directed and co-directed a number of major research projects funded by: the European Commission Fifth Framework Programme; the British Academy; Mutuo; the Department of Culture, Media and Sport; Grant Thornton; the Professional Footballers’ Association; and the Department of Trade and Industry. She has given expert evidence to competition authorities on football related cases. Christine was adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University, USA between 2000-2004. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Studies Association and a Board member of the Oxford Economic Observatory. She was the first Director of the MSc in the Business of Football (now the MSc in Sport Management and the Business of Football) at Birkbeck, University of London. The degree attained ESRC recognition for 1+3 Studentships in 2002. The research of the Football Governance Research Centre (FGRC) focuses on the economics, governance and regulation of football and other sports. Recent publications have covered the ownership and governance of football clubs, competitive balance of sports leagues, the relationship between the football and broadcasting industries and regulation by sports governing bodies and the competition authorities. The FGRC publishes an annual review of governance issues in football – The State of the Game. Christine is frequently invited to speak at major conferences on sport and regulatory issues and has published 3 co-edited books on football, as well as numerous book chapters, journal articles and reports.
Heinz Palme:
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Professional Career
1978 - 2000
Austrian Football Association, Viennan
1978 - 1985: Head of Youth Department
1986 - 1997: Head of Media Department
1986 - 1997: Management of A- and U21-National Team (including participation at FIFA World Cup 1990 / Italy and 1998 / France)
1997 - 2000: Director of Bid Austria/Hungary for UEFA European Championship 2004 and Head of Organisation for International Matches, Head of Security
1994 - 2000
Official Projects with UEFA und FIFA:
FIFA World Cup 1994 / FIFA Media Officer
EURO 1996 (England) and EURO 2000 (Belgium/Netherlands) / UEFA Media Officer
UEFA Champions League (Barcelona, Manchester, Munich, Dortmund, Athens...) / UEFA Media Officer
UEFA Clubs Final Matches 1987, 1990, 1994, 1995 / LOC Media Director and Member of Management Board
as of 2000
Company "Heinz Palme Management", Vienna
Owner and Managing Director (Event Management, Project Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Management Coachings/Trainings)
www.hpm.co.at
Some Key Projects:
Indoor Football Cup, Austrian Football Leaguen
Super Cup, Austrian Football Leaguen
Street Soccer Cup
Golf and Tennis Trophy (Charity in favour of Franz-Beckenbauer-Stiftung)
Players Gala
as of 01/05/2001
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany / LOC
"General Coordinator" and
Head of Project Management and Protocol
Michael Payne :
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Michael Payne has been at the forefront of the sports marketing industry for nearly thirty years. In September 2004, Michael joined Formula One Management, as Special Advisor to the Chairman / CEO, Mr Bernie Ecclestone, after a 21 year career with the IOC.
Michael became the IOC's first ever Marketing and Broadcast Rights Director, creating a multi billion $ global marketing portfolio, and overseeing the marketing effort for 15 Olympic Winter and Summer Games.
His business book, Olympic Turnaround (Published London Business Press - June 2005) details the business story of how the Olympic Games stepped back from the brink of bankruptcy to become the world's best known brand - and a multi billion dollar global franchise, has earned critical acclaim in the industry and been translated into numerous languages.
A British citizen, Michael now lives in Lausanne Switzerland. Michael is a regular commentator on sports marketing industry affairs for CNN, BBC and other media groups around the world.
Jon Phelps has been a leading figure in the sports industry, having held senior roles with Canon Europa and Lloyds TSB Group at a time when both companies invested heavily in sport and sponsorship. When at Canon, for example, Jon was responsible for a wide portfolio of sports sponsorships that included a partnership with golf’s European Tour and sponsorship of The Canon European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre and the 32 nd Ryder Cup Matches at Valderrama. Beyond golf, Jon was heavily involved in football at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and EURO ’96 as well as successive UEFA Champions League tournaments. Canon were also involved in athletics and Formula One during Jon’s time at the company.
As Head of Sponsorship at Lloyds TSB, Jon focused on developing the firm’s appeal through its famous sponsorship of the Six Nations Championship as well as other rugby-related campaigns including the IRB Rugby World Cup 2003 and partnerships with the English, Scottish and Welsh Rugby Unions and the Barbarians. Jon also arranged for Lloyds TSB to sponsor a series of top players including Jonny Wilkinson, Jason Robinson, Simon Taylor, Scott Quinnell, Will Carling and Jonathan Davies.
Lloyds TSB was also very active in golf under Jon’s stewardship and he instigated the brand’s golf ambassador programme that featured the likes of Colin Montgomerie, Nick Faldo, Ian Woosnam, Justin Rose, Nick Dougherty, Laura Davies and Rebecca Hudson.
Jon joined The Celtic Manor Resort in January 2004. Since taking up his role at The Celtic Manor Resort, he has been instrumental in the development of the marketing of The Celtic Manor Wales Open including the creation of Ladies Day which takes place on the Saturday of the tournament and has provided a real boost to the stature and profile of the event. Jon has also been responsible for developing and implementing a new marketing strategy for The Celtic Manor Resort, which has involved hosting high profile events that have significantly increased awareness of the Resort both in the UK and worldwide. Some of these events have included the All*Star Cup, a celebrity Ryder Cup style tournament shown live on Sky One, which featured stars such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas and Rob Lowe, a leg of the 2004 Tour of Britain, the 2005 Women’s Cycling Grand Prix and The Invitational trophy, a tennis tournament featuring legends such as Pat cash and Henri Leconte. Other events that The Celtic Manor have hosted during Jon’s time at the Resort include a Jamie Cullum concert, a classical concert in association with Classic FM and a Legends of the Lions Gala dinner featuring a host of former Lions greats
Roger Pride :
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Roger Pride began his career in the travel/tourism industry with Pickfords Travel. He then moved to Avis Rent-A-Car, before a spell outside the travel industry with Golley Slater and Partners , Wales' leading advertising agency.
Since joining the Wales Tourist Board, Roger has undertaken several roles and is now Director of Marketing. He has been responsible for developing all aspects of the Boards Marketing Strategy.
He has a particular interest in Destination Branding recently jointly edited the first major book on branding places as well as contributing to other branding texts. He developed the tourism brand strategy for Wales Tourist Board, which has resulted in the award winning and commercially successful campaigns. He is currently advising on a new Brand Strategy for Wales , which will guide the future marketing of Wales. He takes up a new position as Director of Marketing within the newly formed Welsh Assembly Government Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Networks in April.
He has been heavily involved in various major Sports Tourism Projects. He Chaired the Wales Marketing Group for Rugby World Cup 1999 and will be responsible for the Wales Rally GB. He has led the development of a Golf Tourism Strategy for Wales and is also a Director of Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd.
The Wales Tourist Board is an Assembly Sponsored Public Body, answerable to the Minister for Economic Development of the Welsh Assembly Government. The Board was set up under the Development of Tourism Act 1969. The role of the Wales Tourist Board is to support the tourism industry and to provide the appropriate strategic framework within which private enterprise can achieve sustainable growth and success, so improving the social and economic well being.
Mark Roberts :
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Mark is a Senior Consultant in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte. He has experience across a whole spectrum of sports venues and other consulting assignments, from feasibility studies and business plan development through to strategic and operational reviews, due diligence and strategic planning. The main emphasis of much of his work is driving extra profit from venues, a subject about which Mark is very passionate and with which he has had great success.
Mark has been involved with over 50 venues related assignments in the last 5 years, across a range of sports, both in the UK and world-wide.
Mark has spoken widely on the subject of stadium development at conferences throughout Europe with particular emphasis on revenue generation and the development of cost effective and functional venues. He is also the author of the stadium section of the Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance.
Edwina Ricci:
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Edwina Ricci is one of Oceania's best-known, best-regarded and most respected architects of grassroots sports business development.
As Commercial Development Manager for sports technology and marketing group SportingPulse, her diverse network of clients ranges from National Olympic Committees to global governing bodies such as basketball's FIBA.
Each relies on her to devise and deliver the platforms they need to empower their grassroots administrators, and enable their associations and clubs to optimise efficiencies and commercialise membership assets.
Much of her work centres around SportingPulse's award-winning suite of results, registration and competition management software tools; which sit at the heart of Australian sport and are now widely acknowledged as the industry standard.
Edwina is a trained teacher of Maths and Psychology and the mother of three beautiful girls.
Mike Reynolds:
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Mike Reynolds is the Director of the Institute of Sports Sponsorship (ISS) and of Sportsmatch, the government`s business sponsorship incentive scheme for grass roots sport.
A thirty year career in marketing and public relations led Mike to the roles of UK Public Relations Manager for British-American Tobacco and Executive Director-Public Affairs for Courage Group. For Courage he was responsible for all aspects of corporate and brand communications, including media, financial and parliamentary relations. He also had overall responsibility for sponsorship development for brands such as Courage, Foster`s and John Smith`s and negotiated and managed sponsorships in a wide range of sports including football, rugby, cricket, horse-racing, snooker and Formula One.
Mike is a former Chairman of the ISS which he helped to found and he has written and lectured extensively on sponsorship in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He became Director of ISS and of Sportsmatch in 1998
Dr. Leigh Robinson :
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Leigh Robinson is a Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Management who has carried out research with a wide range of organisations in the commercial, public and voluntary sectors. She has worked with a number of local authorities, National Governing Bodies and sport consultancy groups. She also works for Olympic Solidarity, the educational arm of the International Olympic Committee and is currently head of an international project team who are developing tools to improve the governance of sport organisations.
Leigh has a number of research areas which all focus on the management of sport organisations and most of her recent work has been concerned with quality and performance improvement in sport federations. She has supervised a number of projects in this area, such as developing a quality management framework for sport organisations in the country of Liechtenstein and a conflict resolution strategy for sport federations in Zimbabwe. She is currently carrying out an assessment of the governance practices of UK voluntary sport organisations.
Scott Robinson:
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Alcatel offers a range of turnkey solutions for enabling the monetization of content on new media consisting of Alcatel's own best-in-class hosting platforms, enabling technology and partner products.
In his role as General Manager, New Media Projects, Scott is responsible for helping content owners create new value through new media by leveraging Alcatel's turnkey solution approach, global reach, Operator and partner relationships and innovative deal structuring.Scott's current focus is leading Alcatel's America's Cup new media project.Scott's background is in marketing, business economics and technology management. He has also worked extensively in the development and profitable introduction of content-rich mobile and broadband services.Scott holds a Masters of Business Administration and an Honors degree in Communications Engineering.
Petter Ronningen :
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Varied professional background from Military Service, Marketing, Banking and Sport. 40 years experience in the area of major sport events, which started with the position as the President of the Organizing Committee of the WCCH in Biathlon 1977 in Lillehammer. He has since held the following positions: Deputy CEO and COO for the Olympic Winter Games 1994 in Lillehammer. Member of the IOC Evaluation Commissions for 2002 and 2004. Adviser to the Management of Asian Summer Games 1998. Adviser to IOC for the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano 1998. Adviser to the Management of the Organizing Committees of the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City 2002 and Torino 2006. Adviser to the Bid Committees for Vancouver 2010 and New York 2012. Honorary President World Master Cross Country Skiing 2004. 1995 - Chairman of the board, Lillehammer Olympic Park Ltd., a company which operates the Sport Facilities from 1994 Olympic Games) 2005 - Chairman of the board, Sim Optima Ltd.
Nigel Rushman:
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Nigel's experience spans 25 years in major international sports and events. He has developed and implemented innovative programmes for over 500 events in 30 countries including three Rugby World Cups and three Cricket World Cups amongst many other projects.
Nigel is a well-known figure in the international business of sport and is frequently invited at a senior level to present his experience and thoughts referring to event management, scalability, temporary facilities, security, knowledge and experience transfer to international sports conferences and gatherings of the IOC, FIFA, GAISF and others.
In addition to his role as MD of Rushmans, Nigel has been contracted as Event Director of the ICC CWC West Indies 2007 Inc with responsibility for implementing the event management, security, media management, accreditation and volunteer programmes for the Cricket World Cup across the nine participating countries in the Caribbean region.
Ulrik Ruhnau:
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Ulrik Ruhnau is the Director Rights Development of the international TV and marketing agency SPORTFIVE. He is responsible for stadium development, consulting and for developing new business segments in club marketing.
Successful projects that he has led include the planning and development of the AOL Arena in Hamburg and the operating and marketing of the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. He joint the company in 2001 working in the new business and strategic development department.
After graduating from university with a degree in business science he furthered his marketing and business knowledge working for König Brewery, McCain and Beiersdorf.
He lives with his wife and two children in Hamburg.
James Santomier Jr. :
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Professional Background
James P. Santomier, Jr., is currently a Professor in the College of Business and Director of the Sport Management Program at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Bayreuth, and the University of Florence. Since 1980, Santomier has consulted with numerous organizations and corporations including Ganduxer Sports S.A., Barcelona, Spain, Shiseido Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, International Paper Co., Home Box Office (HBO), Pfizer, Inc., Forbes Magazine, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Xerox, Bristol Myers-Squibb, and CBS, Inc.
Education
Dr. Santomier received a B.A. and M.A. in Physical Education from Montclair State University, and a Ph.D. in Physical Education from the University of Utah. Areas of study included: Sport Management and the Social-Psychosocial Aspects of and Sport.
Publications and Presentations
Dr. Santomier has published extensively in the areas of sport management, sociology of sport, and psychosocial aspects of and sport. He has presented at international and national conferences and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs.
Brian Sims has enjoyed a colourful 30-year career in international motorsport. The author of the highly-acclaimed book "Sports Sponsorship: Getting Your Share", Brian is widely respected as a highly skilled exponent of sponsorship acquisition at all levels of the sport, up to and including Formula 1, where he became the Benetton F1 Commercial Director.
His career has included being a championship winning professional race driver, managing the South African F1 Grand Prix circuit and running his own racing school, also in South Africa.
Brian is best known for being the Founder and former Chairman of the Motorsport Industry Association, the MIA, representing the £4 billion world-leading British motorsport industry. He is now an Honorary Life Member.
He now runs a successful consultancy, Sports Marketing Skills, specialising in sponsorship acquisition training and sports marketing consultancy. He is also a regular professional speaker, entertaining business audiences about his career in the fast lane.
Bill Sinrich :
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Former Chief Executive Officer, TWI. Executive Vice-President, IMG. IMG Corporate Board Member and member of the decision-making Office of the Chairman. Co-Chairman, SNTV. Director, PGA European Tour Productions. Chairman of Doha Asian Games Broadcast Services.
Previously a journalist, Bill joined TWI in 1987, in London, where he remains based.
Bill has been responsible for a number of TWI’s ground-breaking projects, including pioneering live coverage of major sport including Cricket in India and the West Indies in the 1990’s, and the first live coverage of soccer for an international audience from China, in 1994.
He was also responsible in 1989 for TWI winning the contract to produce the BSB Sports Channel, which became what is today Sky Sports, and brokered TWI’s substantial contract with PCCW to produce the world’s first converged Web/TV service, which launched as NOW in 2000, and then became Gamer.tv. Bill also led TWI’s partnership with ESPN International for the ESPN Classic Sports Channel in Europe, which launched in 2002.
Under Bill’s leadership, TWI has become the world’s largest independent sports producer and distributor, with a string of prestigious clients including the International Olympic Committee, Wimbledon, the R & A, and the iRB (Rugby World Cup). Annual TV production now exceeds over 6,000 hours , plus an additional 2,500 hours of radio, and distribution is more than 9,000 hours.
Recently Bill led the team which, on behalf of IMG/ TWI, renewed its 12-year partnership with the iRB to be commercial brokers for the next two Rugby World Cups in 2007 and 2011. TWI was also appointed Consultant to the IOC for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the London 2012 Olympics, and Host Broadcaster to both the 15 th Asian Games Doha 2006 and the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
In a 2005 industry survey, TWI was again named the UK’s #1 independent production company, and, in a separate poll, secured the #2 distributors slot, second only to BBC Worldwide.
Bill grew up in Stamford, CT, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
Doug Smith:
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Doug Smith is Head of Ticketing at Manchester City FC. He is responsible for the club's Box Office, Customer Services team and Lottery Department. In addition to the club's Premier League football fixtures, the City of Manchester Stadium has also played host to Rugby League and Football internationals, including the opening game of the UEFA Women's European Championship. The Stadium has also been used to stage a number of concerts over the past two-years, including two sell out U2 shows and three nights of Oasis.
Doug joined City after five years at Leeds United. During that time Leeds reached the semi-final of the Champion's League and qualified for the UEFA Cup in all but one season. Prior to this Doug worked at Sheffield Arena, Nottingham Royal Centre, Symphony Hall and the NEC Birmingham.
A graduate of Kingston University's MBA programme, Andy is now a visiting lecturer at the University. He has also authored a series of leisure market reports for Mintel.
Andrew Thompson:
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Andrew has recently joined Channel 4 as Head of Sport where he is responsible for all the channel’s sports output. Previously he was Head of New Media, Sports News and Development at BBC Sport where he oversaw a wide range of content initiatives; from the BBC Sport website, to its award-winning interactive television operations, the BBC’s television sports news output and the development of new sports programming – like Sport Relief. He joined BBC Sport in 2001 from BBC News where he was Executive Editor of the BBC’s television Breakfast programmes.
David Stubley:
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David spent the first ten years of his career working in television, holding sales and marketing positions with HTV & Thames Television and working for six years as Head of Commercial Strategy at Channel Four.In 1997, he moved to the agency side and joined Tempus Group plc to launch their European sponsorship business, Total Sponsorship (now MEC: Sponsorship) and Outrider, their digital arm. In 2001, he joined Chris Aker’s and Alan Pascoe at Sports Resource Group plc as Head of Consultancy. Clients included Clipper Ventures, Volvo, Quatar Sports International and the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2003, he was approached by WPP to launch Performance. This was a new sport & entertainment business which was founded through merging the established consulting teams of sister agencies MindShare, GlobalSportnet & JWT. In the past year, Performance has opened its doors in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Singapore. It now employs over sixty consultants who work alongside media and creative colleagues to integrate sport and entertainment marketing within 360% brand communications. Global clients include Ford, Vodafone, HSBC, Mazda, Nestle, Kellogg’s & BP. He is a graduate of Bristol Business School and holds an MBA. He is also Chairman of the 5-Oceans Race Advisory Board and coaches Optimist Sailing to enthusiastic 9-13 year olds!
Dr. Kamilla Swart:
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Dr Kamilla Swart is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher in the Tourism Management Department and Acting HOD for the Centre for Tourism Research in Africa, Faculty of Business, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Her key role is to enhance the research profile of the department through collaborative initiatives. She is currently a researcher on a National Research Foundation (NRF) funded sport tourism project and an ecotourism project. She has also initiated a 2010 FIFA World Cup research project focusing on developing a strategic framework for maximising community benefits associated with this event. Kamilla has been invited to participate in other 2010 initiatives, including the HSRC 2010 project, the 2010 CHAMSA (Chambers of Businesses) forum and the Cape Town Routes Unlimited 2010 task team. She supervises Masters and Doctoral level students as well and has created internship opportunities for students as fieldworkers on various research projects. She currently lectures tourism development as well as the management of events on a Masters level.
As an independent consultant, she has recently consulted to Interactive Africa concerning a sponsorship evaluation of Design Indaba as well as to the Tourism Development Consortium who were appointed to develop a tourism human resource development framework for the Western Cape. She developed an event (sport, arts and entertainment) tourism strategy for Tourism KwaZulu Natal. She has consulted to Events Research SA, Infonomics South Africa and Wholistic Consulting in the field of event tourism research, particularly with regard to research methodologies (including E-surveys). Key sport and arts event evaluations conducted include Vodacom Beach Africa, Comrades Marathon, Hermanus Whale Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival (Cape Town), Cape Town Festival and Awesome Africa.
She worked at Octagon SA from 2000 to 2003 as a sponsorship consultant. Two key tourism-related projects included developing and managing the event tourism strategy for the City of Durban and developing the national event strategy for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and South African Tourism. She also consulted on various brands such as Old Mutual, Proudly South Africa, Guiness UDV and Fairbairn Capital.
She completed her doctoral degree in education and sport tourism and graduated from Illinois State University (ISU) in December 2001. The topic of her dissertation was "A Curriculum Design for Sport Tourism Studies in South Africa". While enrolled in the doctoral program of Curriculum and Instruction at ISU, she served as a Research Associate for the Bureau of Tourism and Recreation Research (BTRR) from 1998-1999. Kamilla has co-authored the first U.S. text on sport tourism in 2002. Her manuscripts have been published in the Journal of Sport Tourism, Visions in Leisure and Business and Third World Quarterly. Kamilla was chosen as one of the 10 Outstanding Persons in Sport Tourism in the 1990s by the Sport Tourism International Council. She has also been awarded the Tom and Ruth Rivers scholarship, an international scholarship granted by the World Leisure and Recreation Association to outstanding students in 1999. She was awarded the Ora Bretall Scholarship for outstanding contributions to the field of education in 2000.
John Taylor:
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John Taylor - Chairman, Sports Impact Limited
John is a sports marketing and sponsorship expert with over twenty years experience of working with global brands such as Canon, AXA, Coca-Cola, Sun Microsystems and Foster's.
He has been responsible for defining sponsorship strategies for all the major sports and generating over £250 million in sponsorship income on behalf of rights holders.
John is best known for negotiating the sponsorships and creating the award winning campaigns for the AXA sponsored FA Cup and nPower Test Series.
He was Marketing Director of CSS, a founder of Advantage International (now Octagon) and Chairman of Craigie Taylor before founding Sports Impact.
A previous director of the Institute of Sports Sponsorship and European Sponsorship Association, he enjoys close working relationships with major sports rights holders such as the FA, the Football League, ECB, IRB, FIFA, UEFA, PGA European Tour, RFU, RFL, LTA, CCPR and British Olympic Association.
John's interests include: golf, skiing, sailing, theatre and cinema.
Dr Rogan Taylor:
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Dr Rogan Taylor is the Director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool where he pioneered the world's first post-graduate 'football' degree: a Masters in Business Administration (MBA Football Industries). Rogan has given many talks and television appearances in China; an invited Speaker at the China Football Conferences of 2000 and 2002, and most recently at the Shanghai Football Forum in September 2004. He acted as Senior Business Advisor to Shanghai ShenHua FC and 'Visiting Professor' to the Shanghai Football Academy in 2003. He is also a frequent visitor to Korea & Japan.
In UK, Rogan has acted as a special adviser to The FA, The Premier League and a number of Premier League Clubs. He has also worked with some of the leading brands with football interests: Coca Cola, Carlsberg; Diageo etc. He is currently a Senior Consultant to Soccerex Ltd.
David Teasdale, Goodform’s chairman, has over 25 years’ experience in the sports and leisure industry. His degree in Politics led him into Whitehall, after gaining marketing experience and qualifications in industry. During the 1980s he was Head of Sport & Recreation in the Department of the Environment and thus senior advisor to the Sports Minister (and often, the Prime Minister) on sports matters, handling diverse issues like football hooliganism, international sport, sponsorship, sports funding, drugs, etc. He was the Government’s representative on the Sports Council (where he later served as a director). He left Whitehall to work with clients like the Football Association, David Lloyd Leisure, Johannesburg City Council, the National Coaching Foundation, etc and on Olympic campaigns for Birmingham, London and Johannesburg. He published two books on sport with the BBC. David is best known as the Deputy Chairman of Business in Sport & Leisure (BISL), the main body in sport and leisure’s private sector, with over 100 member companies. His BISL work has encompassed national policy on tourism, leisure and events, and the structure of British sport. David has just finished a six-month project with BADMINTON England where he was appointed interim Chief Executive