Javier del Río

After joining LaLiga in 2017, Javier spent his first 2 years in the company overseeing LaLiga’s Office in Lagos, Nigeria. He later moved to London in 2019, where he’s now part of LaLiga Global Network, working in International Strategy for the UK & Ireland. Before joining LaLiga, Javier had worked in different business development and […]

Gary Udhwani

Currently overseeing and coordinating LaLiga´s international expansion in Europe, Gary joined LaLiga in 2017 as a Global Network delegate of the Indian Subcontinent until 2021. Experienced in sports management and sports retail, Gary has been previously working for relevant sports multinationals such as Nike and Decathlon in Madrid and prior to LaLiga, performed as a […]

Keegan Pierce

Based in London since 2017, Keegan oversees UK & Ireland international development for LaLiga’s Global Network, while also serving as part-time lecturer in Sports Business at Barcelona’s Esade Business School. Keegan has some 18+ years’ experience across broadcasting, sponsorship, marketing/comms and content strategy, having previously worked in North America and Europe for the likes of […]

Cristian Livadiotti

Cristian is the CEO and co-founder of Wildmoka, a leading cloud video production and distribution platform for digital created in 2013. Prior to Wildmoka, Cristian has held a number of senior management positions in various software companies in the mobile industry (team leader @TexasInstrument and CTO @Openplug) and in the telecom industry (site manager @Alcatel-Lucent). […]

Mark Alford

Mark is responsible for Sky Sports’ news organisation – Sky Sports News – including the TV channel, and all of Sky Sports’ digital and social media channels. Previously, the Head of Digital at Sky News for three years, Mark has been leading SSN for two, rather challenging years. Before joining Sky, Mark, known widely as […]

Trojan Paillot

Trojan Paillot has gained vast sports media industry experience after working for Eurosport – Discovery’s leading multi-sport brand – for 17 years, progressing to the role of Vice President, Sports Rights Acquisitions and Syndication. He first joined the business as an intern in 2005 working within the rights sales team on sublicence requests across Eurosport’s […]

Roger Brosel

Sports media professional with 17 years of experience in live broadcast, programming and digital media. Having worked in 4 continents -for Manchester City and beIN sports amongst others- he joined LaLiga 6 years ago. In his role, he leads content creation for global broadcasters, manages the introduction of broadcast innovations in the match feed and directs the […]

Simone Pound

Simone Pound is Director of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) the worlds oldest and largest sporting union. She joined the PFA in 2000 to support the first women’s professional team and has supported the professionalisation of the women’s game ever since. She has written guidance, tool kits and education […]