In his current role, David is responsible for managing projects on behalf of FIFA Marketing in the areas of sponsorship sales, rights delivery, event operations and event bidding, with a focus on driving value for FIFA and FIFA’s Commercial Affiliates.
Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, which he joined in 2007 after previously working at Imperial College and London Business School.
Annabel Pritchard is Head of London 2012 sponsorship at Deloitte, the largest sponsorship programme Deloitte has ever undertaken in the UK. She is responsible for the marketing and activation of Deloitte’s sponsorship of London 2012, ensuring that the Games provide a differentiated positioning for Deloitte amongst its clients, targets and its 12,000 people. The London 2012 programme also includes the award-winning Deloitte Disability Sport initiative and the Deloitte Ride Across Britain.
Max Hamilton joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) Europe, Middle East and Africa in June 2007, helping to establish the London office, which has grown to 33 people in the 3 years since.
Richard has been at the forefront of the sport and entertainment marketing industry for over seventeen years and has developed strategic campaigns and implementation for a wide number of award winning sponsorships.
Steven has been Chief Executive of Fulham Football Club Foundation for almost 18 months. He is responsible for leading all of the football club’s charitable and community activities and also forms part of Fulham Football Club’s Senior Management Team. The Foundation has shown significant improvements during his time as CEO. It currently engages over 35,000 young people each year and has grown in size with 35 employees and an annual turnover of almost £2m.
Piara Powar is director of Kick It Out, football's equality and inclusion campaign. He was appointed as the campaign's director in 1997, and has worked closely both with footballing authorities in the UK and across Europe through the Football Against Racism in Europe network. Piara is one of Europe's leading equality campaigners, and has helped to establish Kick It Out as the UK's authority on issues of diversity and discrimination within the footballing world.
Kai Müller, born in 1970, joined the international sports agency SPORTFIVE in 2001 as part of a trainee programme which led him from sales activities for football club Hertha BSC and the company’s ticketing subsidiary to the international markets department. Since starting to work in SPORTFIVE’s international business, Kai Müller has among others been responsible for the development of pan-European sponsorship packages in football and cooperations with diverse international sports associations.
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 thebusiness of sport, and a specialist customer publishing service.
Jon Long heads up the Member Services and Corporate Affairs department at the International Cricket Council where he is part of the Senior Executive Team. After several years managing communications and media relations activity that included major events on five continents and team media management of the World XI, he has taken a lead role in developing ICC's service offering to its Member federations and enhancing stakeholder engagement.
Joe Griffin, founder and Director of blackbird, holds an honors degree in Environmental Biology. He has worked in the field of corporate sustainability for over 12 years.
Director, Central Government & Home Affairs / Regional director for the north west,
Mike was born in Workington, Cumbria and educated at Calday Grange Grammar School on the Wirral. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds, where he successfully completed an Honours degree in Management Studies with Russian.
Benjamin Breeeze is Community Development Manager at Bristol RFC. The Bristol Rugby Phoenix Project: Bright Sparks Programme was the recent winner of the SportBusiness Group 2010 Parliamentary Citizenship Awards.
Rupert has a wealth of experience working at the highest levels in the global sports, charity and education sectors. He is Head of Content for the 1 Goal campaign, and co-founder of Y6 Media, a digital marketing agency.
