Charlie Wijeratna has been with Tottenham Hotspur since November 2010.
Wijeratna was previously responsible for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games’s (LOCOG) commercial negotiations and was the force behind the sponsorship programme and merchandising deals for the 2012 Games.
Tim joined Synergy in 1999 and was appointed CEO in 2007.
He is a specialist in sponsorship strategy and has advised clients on over 100 major national and international sports sponsorships around the world. Synergy’s clients include Betfair, BMW, Bupa, Chivas, Coca-Cola, Guinness, RBS and SSE.
Tim's career in sponsorship began in 1986 when he was recruited from the Mirror Group by the Test & County Cricket Board (now the England & Wales Cricket Board).
Steve Elworthy, born in Bulawayo Rhodesia, made his One Day International debut for South Africa against Pakistan in 1998, and made his Test debut in the same year against England in Nottingham. He played First Class cricket in South Africa spanning 14 seasons for Northern Titans and retired from the game in 2003. Steve also played county cricket in England for Lancashire in 1996 and again for Nottinghamshire in 2003.
Jez Jowett has 15 years of agency and client experience in above, below and through the line campaigns. For the last 10 years he specialized in the digital and social media, working for Agency.com, Cake, KLP, HHCL and Jackie Cooper PR.
Olivier previously worked for the Women's Tennis Association as Vice President of Business Development & Strategy and held an equivalent role at Infront Sports & Media. Prior to that Olivier spent three years at UEFA as Account Director and five years as a Global Sports Marketing Manager at adidas International.
Andrew is an energetic and respected 400m runner who has represented his country at most major competitions since 2005. Andrew is a key member of the Men's 4x400m relay team to which his energy has been integral in placing the team up there with the best in the world.
A new business professional for over 13 years Luke has helped grow marketing agency global offerings for networks like Euro RSCG and McCann WorldGroup as well growing leading independent agencies.
For 5 years Luke was new business director for network agency Euro RSCG KLP twice seeing the shop win Marketing Week’s Agency of the year and picking up Euro RSCG’s internal New Business Agency of the Year award. Account wins included winning Microsoft, Diageo and PepsiCo assignments across 40 countries.
David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management (and former Chief Marketing Officer of the US Olympic Committee)
Rick Burton is a long-time sports industry executive, sports-business columnist and commentator who has travelled the world in various management and marketing capacities. His first novel, a WWII/Cold War historical thriller called The Darkest Mission, was recently published by Long Reef Press. More...
Lee is the World’s most successful Paralympic dressage rider and has amassed a total of 24 gold medals since starting Paralympic dressage competitions in 1998.
Lee has a condition called arthrogryposis, which means his muscles didn’t grow correctly. As a child, he had to have 15 operations and does not have mobility in his ankles or knees and restricted movement in all of his other limbs.
Tim has worked for Oxygen8 for over 10 years. In this time, he has worked closely with numerous clients on a global scale, helping them to integrate interactive communication tools into their wider marketing strategy to realise benefits such as increased revenue and reduction of business process costs.
I have worked at Premiership Rugby for 10 years from the start of Zurich’s first sponsorship of the Premiership to the tournament in its current format as Aviva Premiership Rugby. Notable milestones involve bringing in the play-off format to the competition, and selling out the final three years running, as well as being heavily involved in the inception of the A League as a viable development league for the main tournament. We have also recently undergone the re-brand from Premier Rugby to Premiership Rugby in 2010 prior to Aviva becoming title sponsors.
Following several years in the sponsorship and event management industry, Eddie Hearn joined Matchroom Sport in 2000 with responsibility for the newly-formed Matchroom Golf management business.
In 2005, he assumed the role of Chief Executive of the PGA Europro Tour and subsequently headed up Matchroom Sport’s rapidly expanding poker and online gaming operations. With the swift growth of the company in recent years, Eddie has assumed the role of Group Managing Director.
Josh is a social media and sponsorship specialist, helping brands and rights holders drive relevance and revenue by engaging, growing and increasing the loyalty of their audience, through socially-supercharged sports marketing activity. At Sports Revolution, Josh’s expertise is helping the agency’s clients deepen their connections with sports fans through diverse media channels. This extends to the joint venture with Starcom Mediavest Group's, SMG Sports, working with clients such as Emirates on their sponsorship strategies.
Following the announcement in October 2009 of Thomas Cook being an Official Supporter to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, Stephen moved into the newly created role of Managing Director, in February 2010 where he now leads Thomas Cook’s involvement. He has overall responsibility for delivery of the Commercial and Brand proposition for Thomas Cook’s London 2012 business.
John is a sponsorship and marketing specialist over the past 25 years. He has advised Coca-Cola, General Motors, AXA, Littlewoods, Canon, Fosters and npower on brand profile marketing and sponsorship and negotiated the first national sponsorships in football – Canon League and Milk Cup.
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.
