Gareth Balch, from an inspiring Olympian, with a data driven approach, taking his passion to building Two Circles into one of the hottest digital sports marketing agency from the UK, conquering the world of sports.   Key Highlights Short intro on Two Circles – help grow value of sports – data driven approach Gareth early days as a young athlete – wanting to be an Olympian – short distance runner (800 m), representing Great Britain Great learning at Manchester City How Two Circles got started – Gareth together with Matt Rogan – founding client English Cricket Board (ECB) and Manchester Ci ..read more

Our guest Prof. Dr. Sascha Schmidt, a German Sports Business Professor with a McKinsey background. We look into the future of the industry, with his book “21st Century Sports”.  We explore the different technologies, how to categorize them and how to create your own tool to better follow the trends and take advantage of them.   Key Highlights Early days from Uni to his first Consulting gig at McKinsey working in Switzerland, New York and South Africa. Thesis for his Phd “Walk the talk”, do company’s deliver on what they promise a-connect – German operations, develop business wi ..read more

Marco Balich, the Master of Ceremonies, in the true sense of the word - we explore the exciting world of Marco’s career being involved in creating some of the most memorable moments in Opening/Closing Ceremonies for major sports, cultural and entertainment events around the world.   Key Highlights Growing up in Venice, being surrounded by art, the carnival, entertainment and beauty Leaving the “island” and exploring the world in the 80s, studying in Chicago, exploring Soviet Union countries, etc Dream of joining the Olympics in Fencing – Western block of 1980 Moscow Olympics stopped this ..read more

Alan Pascoe, former Great Britain Olympian and founding father of Sports marketing in the UK, shares his amazing stories on how he got started, the Athletics events he created, the agencies he build and sold, and many more…   Key Highlights Early days, how o he got his start as a hurdler in school which lead him to win Medals for Great Britain in the European Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympics and become one of the most recognized athletes in the UK at the time Discovering his passion for the events business – while being a lecturer – his very first event at Cystal Palace gro ..read more

Paul Barber, OBE, the CEO of Brighton & Hove Albion FC – from a childhood dream of being a pro-player to a highly successful career across Football from the FA of England, Tottenham (his childhood club) to becoming the CEO of the Year in the Premier League, driving Brighton to new heights (including European Football action) in the most competitive Football League in the world.     Key Highlights Football his first love from age of 7, dream to be a pro player but didn’t have the talent.  Love being involved in the game From working with blue chip financial organizations (Ba ..read more

Peter Draper, a true Yorkshireman with an incredible career in UK sports from UMBRO to Manchester United and many more.  We are going all the way back to 1977 and how it all started with the English Basketball Association.  Join us for an incredible journey through English sports history.        Key Highlights How it all started, from Rugby to Basketball – 1977 -1986 , from school and amateur player to administrator in the English Basketball Association in Leeds – sports history UMBRO – big move (40 miles across the country ?) as marketing executive in ..read more

Zack Sugarman, deep dive into his 17 years with the Wasserman Group to his current role as Chief Strategy Officer at Demand Sports – an AI powered top-of-funnel lead generation tool for the sports industry. If you are in sales you need to listen to this.     Key Highlights From college to first role at Sportnet (Wasserman Media Group), doing business development – finance of action sports films in 2005 (skateboard.com, etc) Deep dive into Wasserman group - from 70 people when he joined to 1,700 by the time he left recently (15 offices around the world) Global Sports Marketing & ..read more

Jason Masherah, President of The Upper Deck Company, living his childhood dream, from a young boy trading cards at school to running one of the biggest Trading cards, Memorabilia and Collectibles company in the world – enjoy our deep dive into the world of The Upper Deck Company, the industry and where the business is going.   Key Highlights How it all started, selling trading cards in middle school and attending card shows at the age of 13/14, working in trading card shop Starting his first shop at the age of 16 before going back to school From Electric Supply company coming back into s ..read more

Andrew Ryan, corporate lawyer turned sports executive, currently Managing Director of FIBA Media, from a small town in Australia to the big wide world of sports including Perform, IOC to FIBA.  We are taking a close look into Andrew’s career and the ongoing FIBA World Cup 2023 in Asia.   Key Highlights Growing up in a small town near Brisbane, with lots of access to sports in his youth and Brisbane clubs making their mark. Impact of Sydney Olympics in 2000 on him Corporate law taking him to London and New York in 2006, after Lehmann collapse joined a radio station (Absolute Radio ..read more

Guy-Laurent Epstein a Football Association veteran and senior UEFA Executive for the past 20 years, shaping European football, the commercial side and beyond.  Deep dive into  UEFA’s world from Club Football, new National Team competitions, to the growth of the Women’s game and much more.  Highly educational and lots of great details you don’t want to miss.      Key Highlights How it started, from a passion for mathematics, to Arthur Andersen auditing to Sony Music Commercialising the licensing rights for the FIFA World Cup in 1998 for Sony Music ISL Marketing da ..read more