Giles Stanford
Giles has been involved in numerous world-class events providing a turn-key understanding of them from conception through to implementation. His experience covers a wide range of requirements from operations to the delivery of the temporary event facilities, full branding programmes, city centre dressing and activations. Having worked on numerous “mega-events” his primary focus has been […]
Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts is a media, data and business intelligence leader with a career spanning over 20 years in media research and strategic insight. He graduated from Bath University and joined the market research world in 2022 with Millward Brown before working in senior roles at national press (The Sun/Daily Mirror), and in TV where he […]
Tammy Parlour MBE
Tammy Parlour MBE co-founded Women’s Sport Trust in 2012 and leads the organisation as CEO. Tammy’s role involves working with leaders from across sport, media and business to understand how to practically raise visibility, increase impact and create a stronger women’s sport ecosystem. She was awarded an MBE in the New Year 2019 Honours List […]
Josh McCarthy
After 8 years agency side working at glue and Isobar, part of the Dentsu Aegis Group, on global FMCG clients like Kellogg’s & Pringles, Josh made the leap client side. He joined Pernod Ricard in 2014 to take on the challenge of rejuvenating the Ballantine’s Whisky brand – the world’s #2 Scotch Whisky. As marketing […]
Henry Hodgson
Henry Hodgson was appointed General Manager for the NFL’s UK & Ireland office in July 2022 and is responsible for all facets of the NFL’s operations in this key market for the league’s international expansion. A native of the UK, Henry spent the previous 12 years working for the NFL in its Los Angeles office, […]
Sarah Gregorius
Sarah Gregorius a former professional footballer, having played professional and international football for over a decade. In this time, she played 100 matches for the New Zealand Women’s National Team, participating in three FIFA World Cups (2011, 2015, 2019) and two Olympic Games (2012, 2016). She played professionally in Germany, England, and Japan. Sarah is […]
Ian Smith
Ian is a lawyer with a global reputation in sports integrity related issues like match-fixing, betting fraud, doping and cheating. He is Integrity Commissioner for esports through the organisation he founded in 2015, the Esports Integrity Commission, and he advises and has had executive director level engagements with the PGA European Tour in golf and […]
Tom Whiteside
Tom is currently Group Head of Sponsorship at Aviva, where he has developed the new venue-led group sponsorship strategy for the UK, starting with Manchester’s new landmark new arts, culture and music venue – Aviva Studios. He joined Aviva in 2022 from Toyota, where he oversaw three Olympic and Paralympic Games as UK Sponsorship Lead. […]
Kieran Maguire
Kieran Maguire is associate professor of Football Finance at the University of Liverpool, where he lectures on the Football Industries MBA course. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986 specialising in insolvency, which has come in very useful in terms of analysing the finances of football clubs. Kieran also lectures for the PFA, LMA […]
Kevin Day
Kevin Day is an award-winning comedian and BAFTA-nominated television writer. From his first TV appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1987 to hosting the bafflingly successful ‘Price of Football’ (Radio Times Podcast of the Year in 2023) Kevin has been part of the UK’s comedy and broadcasting scene for a very long time and has […]