Former NFL player, Chairman of Peace and Sport USA
Jack Brewer, a five-year National Football League (NFL) veteran and former team captain on three NFL teams, is the founder and CEO of Brewer Sports International (BSI). Based in New York, with offices in Miami and Minneapolis, BSI is the world's fastest growing multi-faceted sports lending, merchant banking and consulting firm with a focus on the business of sports and wellness. Mr. Brewer has a wealth of diverse experience which is exemplified by his track record of success as a Wall Street asset manager.
Kirk has been running Barclays Spaces for Sports since February 2010. Kirk has been with the Barclays Group for more than 10 years and has undertaken a variety of roles, most recently as a Managing Director at Barclays Capital.
Paul Elliott became Chelsea’s first ever black captain in 1991. Paul also played for Aston Villa, Luton Town and Charlton Athletic, as well as Italian clubs Pisa Calcio and Bari. Paul also spent two years in Scotland with Celtic. Since retiring in 1993, Paul has worked as an ambassador for Kick It Out, and also as a broadcaster for Channel 4 and ITV. In 2003, he was awarded an MBE for his services to youth football and anti-racism initiatives.
About Kick It Out
Kick It Out is football's equality and inclusion campaign.
1989 saw the start of Grant's career within the community sport sector when he joined what was then known as the Leyton Orient Football in the Community Scheme and later as the Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme.
Paul is Head of the Competition & Regulation Group at Charles Russell, advising on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, as well as regulatory issues such as anti-corruption and bribery. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including sport, media, broadcasting and telecoms.
Global Chief Creative Officer and President of Brand Consulting for Edelman
Mitch Markson is global Chief Creative Officer and President of Brand Consulting for Edelman. He is responsible for campaign development for clients, as well as the creation of intellectual property for the firm in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Jon works with companies to help better manage their involvement with the communities where they operate. He also provides assurance and is responsible for developing Corporate Citizenship’s community investment data assurance service. He has recently led a piece of ground-breaking research with nine major corporations to identify and develop a consistent approach to assessing the achievements of corporate community investment.
David Connor is the European Director of 3BL Media and Founder of Coethica with over 13 years experience across the CSR and sport sectors.
David has recently taken the reins of US based 3BL Media, for the European territory, a successful global CSR, sustainability and cause marketing communications company...
With a business and economics degree I have a commercial marketing career in IT and primarily Financial Services spanning 20+ years.
I started my professional career with NCR Ltd in London on the classic graduate programme ensuring a solid grounding in the Sales and Marketing disciplines. Working across a variety of products (including ATMs) and clients (all in financial services) I developed a strong passion for delivering results and making a difference for customers.
As a serial social entrepreneur, with 15 years experience, I have been involved in the development of innovative programmes that engage young people and communities in unlocking access to sport for marginalised members of society. I have also been involved in using sport as a vehicle for the development of life, vocational and academic skills. Projects developed include:
Caroline joined Sport England from McDonald’s Europe, where she was Senior Director for Communications and Government Relations, working with the organisation’s European President.
Mitra Janes is Diversity and Inclusion Manager for Ford Motor Company. She has worked for Ford for 11 years in a variety of Human Resources roles.
Ford has worked in partnership with Kick It Out for 6 years hosting an annual event for young people in the local community promoting the messages of respect, diversity and inclusion. Mitra is married and has two young children.
Eric is in the vanguard driving greater sustainability for BT stakeholders, taking the strategic corporate responsibility agenda into customer boardrooms, investment houses and supply chains. Pushing perception boundaries and expanding dialogues to enable deeper understanding of the bigger picture is central to his challenge.
I started work at 1GOAL in January 2010 as the Chief Operating Officer, managing the running of the global campaign and inputting into the strategic development of 1GOAL. I also took on the management of our film content and produced many of the films we have used to date and supported the development of our online campaigns function (both the back-end database development and our social media/networks growth).
Kevin Roberts is the Editorial Director of SportBusiness International which he helped launch in 1996. Since then he has overseen the development of the monthly magazine as well as Sportbusiness.com, the world’s leading on-line source of information about the business of sport, and a specialist customer publishing service.
Becky’s professional background is in corporate social responsibility. She started out at The Body Shop, where she devised and implemented the company’s climate change strategy in EMEA and led a number of internal and external sustainability projects. She later joined Clownfish, a sustainability and communications consultancy, where she headed up the strategy team and worked with clients including Unilever, Kraft, Vodafone, Tesco and SCA.
Anne-Cécile is the founder of Blueshift, an agency specialised in sustainability consultancy helping brands, NGOs and Event organisers in their voyage to a more sustainable life.
Neil believes in the power of sport. He also believes that the environmental and social challenges facing the world mean everyone, corporations and individuals alike need to adopt a more sustainable way of living and working.
Jamie is a Social Entrepreneur and Founding Partner of kick4change CIC. Qualified project manager with a passion for everything enterprise, business and education.
Simon is responsible for WWF projects relating specifically to the 2012 Games and, more generally, to helping WWF make a hearts and minds connection between people's passion for sport and their concern for the environment.
An inglorious amateur rowing career with an obscure London club ended with Simon and crew being fished out of the Thames in October, missing half their boat. Nowadays Simon limits his sporting ambitions to jogging along the Hastings seafront or watching the Tour de France.
Paul White is the Operations Director for Sport Environment with responsibility for the delivery of The Blue Mile – Race for the Environment. He has thirty years experience in adventure and outdoor sports. Most recent operations include The Blue Mile 2010 and the Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge. His field of operation has taken him into the Sahara Desert, Atlantic Ocean and many remote and valued world heritage sites around the world.
