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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Sports space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Priya Souza
Senior Director Global Communications of Adidas
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About Adidas: Adidas is a global sports brand that manufactures apparel, accessories, and footwear for professional athletes involved in various sports.
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Richard Nockles
Creative Director | Sky VR of Sky UK
Richard Nockles has been at the cutting edge of 360º & VR innovation over the last 4 years. His company ‘Surround Vision’ in London produce award winning 360 projects for broadcasters and Agencies across the wide range of devices on the market.
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About Sky UK, Surround Vision: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Stuart Murphy
Director of Entertainment of Sky UK
Stuart Murphy has been Director, Sky Entertainment Channels since 2013, with overall responsibility for Sky1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, Sky Arts, Challenge and Pick TV, as well as the commissioning teams in Comedy, Drama, Factual and Entertainment. He is a board member of Jaunt, a tech start up in San Francisco. Stuart joined Sky as Director of Programmes, Sky1 in May 2009. He reduced the number of shows on Sky1 by a third, increased the cost per hour and as a result improved peak ratings in the first 12 months by 37%. He moved the channel in favour of commissions over US shows, and Sky1 now commissions more hours of drama than Channel4. Sky1 hits included Got To Dance (which sold to 8 territories including CBS), An Idiot Abroad (now in 37 territories and the third highest rating show on Sky1 in 20 years), BAFTA winning A League Of Their Own (in season 8), Stella (the highest rating UK comedy in Pay TV and BAFTA nominated), Mad Dogs (BAFTA nominated), Pineapple Dance Studios (BAFTA nominated), Moone Boy (winner of an International Emmy Award and 3 IFTA’s) and Modern Family. Strike Back, An Idiot Abroad and Treasure Island were the first Sky originations to be nominated for Emmy’s. In 2011 Sky1 won Channel of the Year for the first time ever. In September 2010 he was made Director of Commissioning, responsible for originations across the Sky wholly owned channel portfolio. In February 2011 he launched Sky Atlantic, the result of a multi year exclusive output deal between Sky and HBO. He commissioned Hunderby (winner 2 British Comedy Awards and BAFTA nominated), Paul Abbott drama Hit + Miss starring Chloe Sevigny, and Steve Coogan’s Places Of My Life (BAFTA winning). Within a year Sky Atlantic became responsible for 15% of all new subscribers joining Sky. In April 2012, he was appointed Director, Entertainment Channels. In this period, Sky Living comedy Doll and Em became the first Sky show ever to be sold to HBO, A Touch of Cloth won Best Comedy at the Broadcast Awards, A Young Doctor’s Notebook Best Multichannel Programme and An Act of Killing won a BAFTA Film Award as well as being nominated for an Oscar, David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive won a BAFTA and The Green Prince doc opened Sundance. Previous roles Stuart has held include Creative Director at Twofour Productions; Creative Director at RDF and the first Controller of BBC Three, commissioning Little Britain, Gavin and Stacey, Torchwood, Nighty Night, Bodies and parenting shows. Under his Controllership, BBC Three won Broadcast and MGEITF Channel of the Year. Before then he ran BBC Choice, UK Play and worked on shows such as The Sunday Show, Great Railway Journeys, The Big Breakfast and Reportage. He went to school in Leeds, studied Geography at Clare College, Cambridge, has two sons, and boxes.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Gary Davey
Managing Director of Content of Sky UK
Gary was appointed Managing Director, Content in January 2015. In this role, he has responsibility for Sky’s entertainment, movies and news channels in the UK and Ireland as well as the entire entertainment offering of Sky Deutschland where he has been Executive Vice President Programming since 2011. For the majority of his career, Gary has worked as a senior executive in the international pay TV industry holding senior roles in Europe, Asia and the US. Before joining Sky Deutschland in June 2010, Gary held a senior role at Sky Italia, where he was responsible for launching its terrestrial TV network, cielo. He has also worked as Managing Director of BSkyB in England and CEO of STAR TV in Hong Kong among his other roles.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Julian Przygrodzki
Marketing Director of Sky UK
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Sir Alex Ferguson
Director, Football Board of Manchester United Football Club Limited
Born in Govan, Glasgow in 1941, Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager of Manchester United in May 2013 following a period of over 26 years at the helm. Over the course of a management career that lasted 39 years, he won 49 major trophies, making him the most successful manager in the history of British football. He made his name with Aberdeen, who became the first club to consistently break the Old Firm dominance of the Scottish game, winning 9 domestic trophies over a 6 year period. But it was victory over Real Madrid in the European Cup-Winners Cup Final in 1983 that brought him to national attention. Following his move to Manchester United in 1986, he set about restructuring the club and his first trophy in 1990 opened the floodgates. In 2001 he became the first manager to win three championships in a row since the league began in 1888, a feat he repeated in 2009. Admired for placing his emphasis on attacking football, with homegrown talent at the heart of his teams, he bowed out as league champion following his 1,500th game in charge of Manchester United. In 2012, Harvard Business School wrote the case study “Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United” before appointing him as a Fellow to the Executive Education Programme. Following his retirement in 2013 he took up the positions of both Director and Global Ambassador with Manchester United and was also appointed Coaching Ambassador by UEFA. In the same year he released “My Autobiography” which became the UK’s quickest selling non-fiction book since records began. This work was a follow-up to his first best-selling memoir, “Managing My Life”, which appeared in 1999. His new book ‘Leading’, written with Sir Michael Moritz, details the key skills and philosophies he used to deliver success both on and off the field and will be released in September 2015.
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About Harvard Business School, Manchester United Football Club Limited, UEFA, UNICEF – New York, Unicef UK: Manchester United is one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports.
Gary Twelvetree
Director of Marketing of Chelsea Football Club
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About Chelsea Football Club: The world famous Chelsea Football Club is located at Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road in west London.
Sebastian Gray
Managing Director of Dugout
Sebastian began his career with Quest Software working in their Microsoft sales team, leaving after a number of years to establish his own company developing mobile apps. This progressed into user interactions and digital media and led him to create Sport Digital, a digital media company that specialises in the management and commercialisation of the digital landscape for athletes, actors, musicians and celebrities. Two years after its founding, Sport Digital now looks after over 300 athletes, including Gareth Bale, Anthony Joshua, and Adam Lallana, utilising and developing their digital and social media footprint with the long-term objective of optimising their digital media value.
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About Dugout: Dugout is an innovative new digital football platform.
David Lampitt
Managing Director Group Operations of Sportradar
David Lampitt is Managing Director Group Operations for Sportradar AG. Initially joining the Board of Sportradar AG in August 2012 in a non-executive capacity, David brought over a decade of in-depth experience of working in the sports industry at senior levels. In 2013, he took on an executive role as Sportradar’s Managing Director Group Operations, where he has responsibility for shaping Sportradar’s organisational structures. His remit also includes a number of group functions such as legal, compliance, marketing, communications, as well as strategically significant group projects such as e-sports. Prior to joining Sportradar, David worked at the English Football Association, he was a member of UEFA’s Club Licensing Committee and spent two years as CEO of Portsmouth Football Club.David also worked as CEO of Supporters Direct, a not-for-profit organisation promoting good governance in sport. He holds a degree in Modern Languages from Bristol University and is an ACA Chartered Accountant. David is based in London, United Kingdom.
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About Sportradar: Sportradar is a supplier of sports and betting-related live data, odds solutions and fraud detection services.
Pete Samara
Director of Innovation and Digital Technology of Formula 1
With over 20 years’ experience in F1, leading a number of key technical areas such as IT, Electronics, Software, R&D and most recently Digital Delivery & Technology. Pete spearheads a division covering many exciting facets; from delivering the transformation of F1’s digital platforms all the way through to developing new and innovative solutions that facilitate new and exciting content to F1 products. Pete is passionate about pushing the boundaries of existing technologies in addition to leveraging new technologies, ensuring they achieve real business gain and increase fan engagement in the exciting and challenging environment of F1.
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About Formula 1: Formula 1 is a auto racing league.
Matt Roberts
Global Research Director of Formula 1
Matt joined Eurosport as Head of Research in September 2008, before moving to ESPN UK in July 2010 where I headed up the EMEA Research team. After the sale of ESPN TV to BT in July 2013, Matt joined the BT Sport team in Stratford to set up the insight function for the brand new sports channel before joining Sky to head up their sports insight division. In 2017, he joined Formula One as Global Research Director.
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About Formula 1: Formula 1 is a auto racing league.
Denise Parkinson
Global Entertainment Director of OneFootball
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About OneFootball: The ultimate football media platform – news, scores, stats & more.
Hywel Sloman
IT Director of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Ken Friar
Club Secretary & Managing Director of Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal Football Club’s longest-serving director, Ken Friar OBE has been a mainstay of the Club for more than 60 years. During this time, Mr Friar, as he is affectionately known by all, has done just about every job at the Club including working as Club Secretary and Managing Director. He was a driving force behind the Gunners’ move from Highbury to Emirates Stadium and continues to lead the Club’s activities in the property sector.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Stan Kroenke
Board of Directors of Arsenal Football Club
Stan Kroenke became the majority shareholder of Arsenal Football Club in April 2011, having previously been appointed to the board of directors in 2008. As the head of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, he owns a number of American sports properties; the Denver Nuggets basketball team, Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer team, St. Louis Rams of the NFL and the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team in the NHL. He is a real estate developer and also owns the Outdoor Channel and Altitude Sports & Entertainment.
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About Kroenke Sports & Entertainment: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
John Bayer
Technical Director of Arsenal Football Club
His main roles at Arsenal Ladies involve directing operations at the Arsenal Ladies Centre of Excellence and implementing the Technical and Physical Programme for the COE.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Lord Harris
Board of Directors of Arsenal Football Club
Lord Harris of Peckham was appointed to the Arsenal board in November 2005. One of Britain’s longest-serving retailers, Lord Harris took over his family run carpet business aged 15. He went on to found Carpetright in 1988, where he played a central role until announcing his retirement in 2014. Lord Harris is a keen philanthropist, supporting a number of charities and projects that help young people to fulfil their potential.
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About : Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Paul Boanas
Director of Sales (EMEA & LATAM) of Catapult
Paul Boanas as Head of Europe, responsible for driving sales and business development in the key UK and European markets. Boanas is one of the key pioneers in athlete analysis, delivering innovative ways of assessing performance during his 13-year tenure with Prozone Sports as Head of Analysis Services, UK Account Manager and, most recently, Senior Account Manager.
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About Catapult: Catapult is a developer of wearable sensors to monitor athletes’ sport demands.
Roy Clements
STATS Sales Director Media & Gambling EMEA/APAC of STATS
Roy joined STATS in 2005. Roy was instrumental in the positioning and expansion of the European business, leading growth initiatives in gaming and media in Europe. Roy is currently responsible for the relationships with clients across the UK and Europe, including UEFA, William Hill, and bet365 and supporting STATS regional sales teams.
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About STATS, STATS: 800+ global organizations trust STATS to power their sports data and technology platforms due to our unrivaled speed, accuracy and depth.
Charlie Vernon
Director of UK Partnerships of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Dom Goodrum
Director of Product of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Georgina Owens
Director IT Services of Perform Group
Georgina Owens has held global leadership roles in organisations across multiple sectors. She has a reputation for tackling large-scale challenges and being capable of making intelligent sense out of chaotic and poorly managed IT capabilities. She is at home working in a fast paced environment dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity and constant change and manages to navigate her teams through a transformation to deliver simplicity, excellence and best in class at the end of the journey. In the last 18 months, she has been immersed in leading-edge digital initiatives including Artificial Intelligence implementations and the challenges of evolving an organisation into a digital way of thinking. In November she is moving into a role in a leading sports media company delivering content media, social network services and a pioneering sports OTT platform.
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About Liberis, Perform Group: Perform Group is a digital media company that commercializes multimedia sports content across internet-enabled digital platforms.
Ben Ladkin
Managing Director, MLB Europe of Major League Baseball
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About Major League Baseball: Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization.
Alex Edney
Creative Director of InCrowd Sports
Alex Edney is a Creative Director at InCrowd Sports.
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About InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
Peter Bazalgette
Non-Executive Director of Base79
Peter Bazalgette is Non-Executive Director at Base79. Peter Bazalgette is the great-great-grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. A third cousin is Edward Bazalgette who directed and produced the 2003 documentary The Sewer King which charted Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s design and engineering of the London sewers. Peter Bazalgette presented a later television show for Five, called The Great Stink, and chaired the Crossness Engines Trust raising £4.5 million to restore the magnificent Victorian pumping station built by his ancestor. An old joke is that where Joseph Bazalgette was responsible for removing ordure from London’s homes, his grandson has reversed the process. For the first 12 years of his life Peter Bazalgette’s parents did not have a television. He attended Dulwich College, and gained a third class degree in Law from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University while also becoming the president of the Cambridge Union Society. He is married to intellectual property rights lawyer Hilary Newiss, with whom he has two children. The family lives in Notting Hill.
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About Base79: Base79 is an online media company creating global audiences for video content and manages hundreds of YouTube channels.
Ben Crossing
Managing Director of Hawk-Eye Innovations
Ben is currently instrumental in further establishing Hawk-Eye’s operations across Asia from Japan. Previously worked as commercial manager in cricket managing projects such as the ICC World Twenty20, Indian Premier Leagues and the Big Bash. Ben will oversee the project delivery, contractual obligations and operational elements in Japan.
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About Hawk-Eye Innovations: Hawk-Eye is a British company that develops vision-processing, video replay, and creative graphical technologies for sports.
Roderick Bradley
Director, Co-Founder of PlayerLayer
Bradley is a freelance artist and design urban clothing for Rudey Arts and new sportswear for PlayerLayer. Rod supports many charities including the Vitiligo Society and is a great supporter of sports in schools.
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About PlayerLayer: PlayerLayer is a designer and retailer of premium sports performance clothing.
Andrew Wright
Trading Director of Sky Betting and Gaming
At Sky Bet we are working hard to give customers what they want to bet on, when and how they want to bet on it. As the Golf betting marketplace becomes increasingly competitive pre-live with Extra Place offers, a better understanding of what attracts customers to bet again in-play is crucial to an operator’s success.
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About Sky Betting and Gaming: aiming to be the UK’s best digital business.
Janis Thomas
Marketing Director of deltatre
Janis joined Deltatre, a global leader in the sport business, at the beginning of 2019. She is an expert in using digital marketing to deliver sales and revenue growth in subscription and ecommerce businesses. She has grown diverse brands from Birchbox to Playboy. She has held senior consumer marketing roles at digital media and entertainment businesses across film, TV and publishing. Janis will be responsible for leading Deltatre’s B2C marketing. This function will help Deltatre’s sport and entertainment clients grow their direct-to-consumer streaming subscription services.
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About deltatre: deltatre is a sports media services company that provides consulting services for videos, webs, graphics, and sports businesses.
Manuel Stan
Central Brand Marketing Director of Kindred Group
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About Kindred Group: Kindred Group is a company that operates with online gambling and offers products such as online casino etc.
Joshua Nino De Guzman
CEO, Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
Joshua Nino De Guzman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Chris Marsh
Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Mike Kent
Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Sam Cooke
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Esports Insider
Sam Cooke heads up Esports Insider, an esports business news platform and events company based in London. Esports Insider is a part of SBC Global and runs B2B events including the ESI Forum Series, the ESI Super Forum and the Betting on Esports Conference
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About Esports Insider: Esports Insider is a platform which covers all news that is of interest to the industry.
Julian Gough
Co-Founder and Director of Genetrainer
Julian is a biotech entrepreneur and world expert in bioinformatics. He graduated his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and was a research fellow at Stanford University. He is now a Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Bristol. He has successfully started a number of biotech companies.
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About Genetrainer, Mogrify: Genetrainer is a website that provides a personalized fitness plan for users based on their genes.
Tom Curtis
Executive Creative Director of mediacom
Tom heads up MediaCom Beyond Advertising UK, the content marketing arm of MediaCom, one the world’s largest media planning and buying agencies. He runs a team of around 100 content specialists, overseeing content strategy, creation and distribution for the local and international clients that are serviced out of MediaCom’s London office.
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About mediacom: MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media agencies.
Tim Worboys
Founder and Director of WallJAM
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About WallJAM: WallJAM is a shaped, interactive rebound wall and sports activity zone.
Matthew Entwistle
Group Managing Director of Two Circles
Matthew’s twenty-year career includes senior roles in strategy consulting, marketing and commercial operations. His business passion is understanding customers and using that insight to drive tangible commercial results. He has worked across consumer and retail businesses in the UK, Europe, US and Asia, including time as Tesco’s Non-food Marketing Director and Tesco.com’s International Director. As Group Managing Director at Two Circles, he is responsible for delivering great client results in every country in which we work. As a fervent football fan, Matthew has been supporting Manchester City for the past 34 years from Maine Road to the Etihad Stadium. Having played football in his younger years he continues to keep fit and is now a keen gym-goer.
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Chris Shelley
Technology Director of Two Circles
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Phil Stephan
Group Director of Two Circles
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Mathew Symmonds
Director and Founder of Web Analysis Solutions Limited
Mathew Symmonds is the founder of Web Analysis Solutions Limited, who operate two of the largest football data and statistics websites in the industry in WinDrawWin.com and PredictZ.com. Mathew has been an affiliate since 2003 and Web Analysis Solutions’ websites now attract more than 100 million visits per year. Seventy-five percent of Web Analysis Solutions’ traffic now originates from Africa and the company is therefore one of the few affiliates in the industry to have monetised this region well, becoming the largest online affiliate in Kenya. Web Analysis Solutions’ success in Africa has lead them to launch a joint partnership -SportKenya.co.ke, which is a virtual gaming product specifically targeted to the Kenyan market.
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About Web Analysis Solutions Limited: Web Analysis Solutions Limited operates two of the largest football predictions, tips, and statistics websites.
Mark Dennis
Director of Technical Operations of Sunset+Vine
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About Sunset+Vine: Sunset+Vine is a leading sports production and media company.
Richard Kenyon
Director of Marketing, Communications and Community of Everton Football Club
Richard Kenyon is the director of marketing, communications, and community at Everton Football Club.
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About Everton Football Club: Everton Football Club is a football club in Liverpool, England.
Matt Chrisp
Commercial Analytics Director of beIN MEDIA GROUP
Matt joined beIN in February 2016, to launch the Commercial Insights team based in London. He leads a team of insights and analytics executives, seeking out the value that content drives for beIN’s platforms and channels across our international portfolio. Matt’s team is also responsible for valuing entertainment and sports rights for beIN and beIN’s competitors, to contribute to bidding strategy in the various major tender processes that beIN participates in. Matt started his career in New Zealand at KPMG, before taking a 9 month sabbatical to play rugby in London in 2009…which he never made it back from. Since then Matt has held positions at the National Basketball Association, Sony Pictures and A+E Networks during which time he contributed to new ventures across the various elements of the pay-tv ecosystem.Matt has two children, loves to travel, and enjoys triathlons and the odd tennis match.
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About beIN MEDIA GROUP: beIN MEDIA GROUP brings unrivalled sport action and major international events, to dozens of millions of viewers around the world.
Kos Gkortsilas
Managing Director of Footy Addicts
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About Footy Addicts: Footy Addicts is a social platform that enables football players and enthusiasts to discover, organize, and join football games in the UK.
Marina Storti
Director of Strategy & Proposition of NOW TV
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About NOW TV: Now TV is an internet television service that features latest movies, TV shows, live sports, and more.
Patrick Lewis
Commercial Director of Maddox Events
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About Maddox Events: Maddox Events is the world’s only B2B company exclusively dedicated to creating large-scale conferences.
Freddie Lewis
Creative Director of Maddox Events
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About Maddox Events: Maddox Events is the world’s only B2B company exclusively dedicated to creating large-scale conferences.
Mark Carter
Commercial Director of EXCEL ESPORTS
Mark’s expertise is in delivering strategic and innovative solutions to global markets by utilizing his wealth of experience in sales, marketing, and product development within the financial and tech sectors. He has worked in the USA, Europe, and the Philippines, and is responsible for driving the global growth of fastacash. Mark was part of the team that took Skrill through two acquisitions in 2 years, resulting in the sale to Optimal Payments in August 2015 for $1bn and has been involved in both the buy and sell-side of M&A transactions. Passionate about delighting consumers whilst delivering real and tangible business benefits to clients, he has delivered business differentiating solutions to start-ups, SMEs, and global businesses. He is a weekend farmer and classic car enthusiast.
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About EXCEL ESPORTS: EXCEL ESPORTS is a competitive gaming culture brand that uses its platform to have a positive impact on the gaming and esports community.
Andrew Bartholomew
Director of Bikmo
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About : Bikmo provides simple, brilliant and inclusive bicycle insurance for road, MTB, triathlon and e-bike riders.
Russell Yershon
Director of Connecting Brands
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About Connecting Brands: Connecting Brands is a sports marketing business that delivers and activates partnerships and brand ambassadors for brands with Sport.
Jasper Kain
Managing Director of Football Beyond Borders (FBB)
Jasper Kain and Jack Reynolds founded Football Beyond Borders in 2013, since which Jasper has been serving as its managing director.
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About Football Beyond Borders (FBB): Football Beyond Borders an education and social inclusion charity that uses young people’s passion for football to educate .
Jack Reynolds
Managing Director of Football Beyond Borders (FBB)
Jack Reynolds and Jasper Kain founded Football Beyond Borders in 2013, since which Jack has been serving as its managing director.
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About Football Beyond Borders (FBB): Football Beyond Borders an education and social inclusion charity that uses young people’s passion for football to educate .
Nick Larsen
Founder, Director of Charge Bikes
Nick Larsen is the Founder and Creative Director at Charge Bikes.
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About Charge Bikes: Charge Bikes design and produce a range of simple and unique bicycles, and components.
Dean Dempsey
Marketing and Innovations Director of Naturelly Jelly Juice
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About Naturelly Jelly Juice: Naturelly is a fun & fruity juicy jelly snack for active kids.
Dane Streeter
Managing Director of SharpStream
Dane Streeter is co-founder and Managing Director of SharpStream, one of the worlds leading audio streaming service and technology companies. For over a decade, Dane has provided media enterprises with service for the largest, era-defining audio streaming technologies and is responsible for the delivery of over 15 billion annual hours of digital audio content to over 35 million individuals throughout the world. Dane’s passion for audio streaming came in 2004, at the age of 16, listening to early internet broadcasts of live gigs from popular locations such as Ministry of Sound London, and A State of Trance in Holland.
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About SharpStream: SharpStream is the leading streaming platform for smart streamers…
Andy Etches
Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil
Andy Etches is the Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience ,performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Adam Dickinson
Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil
Adam Dickinson is the Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Gareth Thatcher
Technical Director of Rezzil
Gareth Thatcher is the Technical Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Michael Caine
Director of Progressive Sports Technologies
Mike was the inaugural Dean of Loughborough University London (2013-2018). Mike is currently on sabbatical working with colleagues at MIT on research pertaining to innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystems. Mike has a First Class Honours Degree from Loughborough University and a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is a Professor of Sports Technology and Innovation and was the inaugural Director of Loughborough’s Sports Technology Institute from 2006-2010. Mike has collaborated with many of the world’s leading sporting goods brands, developing and commercialising new products. He is also the founder of two spin-out companies.
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About Progressive Sports Technologies: Progressive Sports Technologies maintain a highly skilled research and development team, at-hand to support your project requirements.
Mark Mulligan
Managing Director and Analyst of MIDiA Research
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About MIDiA Research: MIDiA Research is a media and technology analysis company that offers consulting and syndicated research services.
Luis Silva
Director, Operations & Management of Bluerock Sports & Entertainment
Luis believes that by taking a holistic approach to operations, all venue users can be made to feel like VIPs. Luis developed his expertise at FC Porto and put his vision into practice as UEFA consultant for stadium operations for The European Championships in 2004, 2008 & 2012. More recently, Luis was COO of the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, juggling a complex set of stakeholders to ensure an amazing experience for fans, players, corporate guests and the media. He is an expert in venue design and operations.
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About Bluerock Sports & Entertainment: Bluerock Sports & Entertainment is specialists in maximising profit from venues and events.
Natasha Thiebaut
Director, Hospitality and Customer Experience of Bluerock Sports & Entertainment
Natasha has spent 20 years improving the event day experience for fans, visitors and corporate guests and creating membership schemes for many world class venues and events. She created the Club Wembley corporate seating programme and hospitality sales operations for The UEFA European Championships as well as hospitality schemes for Besiktas and Galatasaray in Turkey, Spartak Moscow in Russia and The Maracana in Brazil. She is an expert in sales and marketing, CRM, catering and customer service.
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About Bluerock Sports & Entertainment: Bluerock Sports & Entertainment is specialists in maximising profit from venues and events.
Iain Barnett
Director, Commercial of Bluerock Sports & Entertainment
Iain believes that all venues can be more profitable, with proper business planning and a commitment to good processes. Iain learned his craft researching venues around the world as MD of a sports research business and has put his philosophy into practice developing the vision and commercial strategy for venues as diverse as the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Eden Park in Auckland and a number of the WC2022 venues in Qatar. He is an expert in all aspects of stadium revenue generation.
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About Bluerock Sports & Entertainment: Bluerock Sports & Entertainment is specialists in maximising profit from venues and events.
Garry Adamson
Managing Director/Founder of 4Sight Sport & Leisure
Garry is a leading CRM expert with over 20 years’ experience including 12 years in the sports industry. He is the founder of the concept of Fan Relationship Marketing (FRM) recognising the perfect fit between CRM and sport with an understanding of the unique characteristics of its customers. He has worked with a number of sports organisations such as Manchester City, The ECB, The FA, Reading FC, Arsenal FC, AS Monaco and Silverstone. Garry has an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Liverpool.
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About 4Sight Sport & Leisure: 4Sight Sport & Leisure a specialist CRM & Data Marketing Agency.
Nick Meacham
Managing Director of SportsPro Media
Nick Meacham is a Managing Director at SportsPro Media.
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About SportsPro Media: SportsPro is the global leading B2B sports media source targeting specifically industry decision-makers, rights holders & senior executives
Terry Blake
Business Development Director – EMEA of LEMON Mobile LLC
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About LEMON Mobile LLC: Location Enhanced Mobile Opt-In Network
Mikhail Sokolov
Director of Roborace
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About Roborace: Roborace is a global race series for driverless electric cars.
Alex Lowe
Marketing Director of Sportlobster
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About Sportlobster: Sportlobster was born out of the frustration that sports fans face in having to visit multiple sites or download multiple apps.
Ted Menmuir
Content Director of Sports Betting Community
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About Sports Betting Community: Sports Betting Community is a leading source for sports betting and igaming, insight, knowledge and opinion.
Anj Matthews
Board Member & Director of SoccerHubb
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About SoccerHubb: SoccerHubb is a social network platform for football that includes social media suite, interactive multimedia, and live news feed.
Philip Bingham
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Velo Vixen
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About Velo Vixen: The UK’s Leading Specialist in Women’s Cycling Kit
Samantha Oxford
Managing Director of Boulder Hut
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About Boulder Hut: Boulder Hut is an indoor climbing brand.
Jessica Tebay
Director of The Activity Network Ltd.
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About The Activity Network Ltd.: The Activity Network is simple. Register, select some interests and immediately connect with other users who share your interests.
Anthony Humphreys
Technical Director of The Activity Network Ltd.
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About Highshot, The Activity Network Ltd.: The Activity Network is simple. Register, select some interests and immediately connect with other users who share your interests.
Scott Morgan
Managing Director of Nutrivend
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About Nutrivend: Nutrivend is a sports nutrition company.
Peter Lillie
Co- founder and Commercial Director of GRN Sportswear
Peter Lillie is a co-founder and commercial director of GRN Sportswear.
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About GRN Sportswear: GRN Sportswear is a sportswear manufacturer out of recycled and sustainable materials.
Peter Lillie
Co- founder and Commercial Director of GRN Sportswear
Peter Lillie is a co-founder and commercial director of GRN Sportswear.
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About GRN Sportswear: GRN Sportswear is a sportswear manufacturer out of recycled and sustainable materials.
Kevin Dale
Director of Lottorate
Kevin Dale has spent the last 20 years in the online gaming industry. He was previously CEO of online skill gaming company, GAN plc. Prior to this he was Marketing Director at two of the leading global brands in online gaming, Betfair plc and Sportingbet (now part of GVC plc). Before life in gaming, he worked as a consultant across diferent industries including ERP software, aviation, payments and building products and set up a new change management consulting team at Ernst & Young’s Management Consultancy Practice in London. He also lectured for three years in Marketing and International Marketing at University in the UK.
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About Lottorate: Lottorate’s mission is quite simple: to research the world’s lotteries then review and rate them for players.
Mark McClure
Director of Dirt Factory
An avid mountain bike rider since his early teens, Mark McClure has followed and participated in the sport since its humble beginnings. Mark is a fully qualified mountain bike coach, which he uses to take community groups and school pupils out on mountain bike rides. In 2007 Mark founded Try-Cycles, a not-for-profit social enterprise that focuses on getting more kids on bikes. The ‘Rock and Road’ and ‘Mountain Bike Fundamentals’ courses won consecutive government grants through the Sportivate program allowing over 400 Oldham school pupils to experience a series of mountain bike sessions. Between 2010- 2013 Mark held the position of chairman with IMBA-UK (International Mountain Bicycling Association – United Kingdom) before changing his job role. Mark now works as a major subcontractor for IMBA Trail Solutions. Since 2012 Mark has traveled the globe with IMBA designing and building trails and bike parks with projects in the UK, Europe, China and North America, working in over 15 countries.
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About Dirt Factory: Dirt Factory will be the UK’s first indoor bike park – a fun and exciting cycle facility located within Greater Manchester.
Ian Lewis
Co-Founder & Director of PSA Academies
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About PSA Academies: High performance international sports coaching & personal development business.
