No Holds Barred is the podcast from SB Weekly where three leading sports executives reveal their industry bugbears, question accepted wisdom, and try to make sense of the major developments currently impacting the global business of sport. Each guest comes armed with a view on an industry topic that’s been piquing their interest over recent weeks, …

Hussain Naqi, Senior Vice-President at NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly podcast. Though based in Florida, the Jaguars have played one home regular season game in London every year since 2013 as part of the NFL International Series. Based in London, Hussain heads up International Development for th…

No Holds Barred is the podcast from SB Weekly where three leading sports executives reveal their industry bugbears, question accepted wisdom, and try to make sense of the major developments currently impacting the global business of sport. Each guest comes armed with a view on an industry topic that’s been piquing their interest over recent weeks, …

Paul Samuels, Executive Vice-President at AEG Global Partnerships, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Part of sports and entertainment giant AEG - which owns numerous venues and sports teams across the world - AEG Global Partnerships is responsible for creating, selling and servicing marketing and other strategic opportunities for A…

Carsten Thode, Chief Strategy Officer at Synergy, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Part of the Engine Group, Synergy positions itself as a brand-facing, creatively-driven and digitally-native sports agency that focuses on delivering business value for its array of clients, which include Standard Life Investments, Canterbury and Be…

Nick Robinson, Managing Director of sports management and marketing agency ISC, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. ISC helps create partnerships for a variety of rights-holder and brand clients, but is perhaps best known for representing athletes and players across football, rugby and several Olympic and Paralympic sports. Nick cut …

No Holds Barred is the podcast from SB Weekly where three leading sports executives reveal their industry bugbears, question accepted wisdom, and try to make sense of the major developments currently impacting the global business of sport. Each guest comes armed with a view on an industry topic that’s been piquing their interest over recent weeks, …

No Holds Barred is the podcast from SB Weekly where three leading sports executives reveal their industry bugbears, question accepted wisdom, and try to make sense of the major developments currently impacting the global business of sport. Each guest comes armed with a view on an industry topic that’s been piquing their interest over recent weeks, …

Rob Mitchell, commercial director at Premier League football club AFC Bournemouth, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Bournemouth are one of the extraordinary success stories of English football. Struggling in the fourth-tier less than a decade ago, the Cherries are now in their second Premier League season and thriving under manage…

Ben Morel, SVP at the National Basketball Association and Managing Director for operations across EMEA, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Ben originally joined the NBA from cosmetics giant L'Oréal in 1998, and nearly 20 years later he’s still going strong, overseeing the basketball league’s media distribution, events, merchandising…

Leading football lawyer Daniel Geey is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Currently a partner at sports and media law firm Sheridans, Daniel was involved in the recent American takeover of Swansea City, and is currently preparing for a busy winter football transfer window, opening after the Christmas break. On the podcast, Daniel discu…

Elliot Richardson, ‎President and Co-Founder of digital football platform Dugout, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Launched officially at the end of November - following months of industry hype - Dugout publishes exclusive content featuring some of Europe’s biggest clubs and footballers, and is touted as a way for those same clubs…

Matt Stevenson, ‎Head of Sports Sponsorship at mobile operator EE, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. EE has over 27 million customers in the UK, making it the region’s biggest mobile network, and last year it was acquired by BT for £12.5 billion, creating a formidable new telecoms giant for the UK market. In a career that’s include…

BBC News Sports Editor Dan Roan is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. A familiar face and voice to sports fans across the world, Dan covers a wide range of sports news and business stories for the public-service broadcaster's TV, radio and online platforms, which include the One, Six and 10 O'Clock News; Radio 4's Today programme, 5 Li…

Scott Bowers, Director of Communications at The Jockey Club, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. The Jockey Club is the largest commercial group in British horseracing, owning and running 15 of the UK’s leading racecourses including Cheltenham, Aintree and Epsom Downs. Scott’s been there for nearly seven years now, and was last month…

Roger Mitchell, the former Chief Executive of the Scottish Premier League, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. An accountant by trade, Roger has held a number of senior roles in a number of sectors, but rose to prominence in the sports industry when he left his job as CFO of EMI Music in Italy to become the inaugural CEO of the SPL i…

Paul Blanchard, Chief Executive of Commonwealth Games England, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Paul’s a well-known figure in the UK sports industry and in a long and distinguished sports industry career has been, to name only a few of his positions: Marketing Manager of Ladbrokes; Marketing Director of the Scottish Premier League…

James Grigg, Director of International Operations at Turner Sports-owned digital media company Bleacher Report, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. James joined Bleacher a year ago having previously been COO of fanatix, the sports video clip-sharing platform, and Distribution Director of Sportech, the pool betting operator and techno…

Rob Mills, CEO of Gemba, the agency providing insight, strategy and communications services to brands and rights-holders operating in the sports and entertainment sectors is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. It was in adidas' Australia office where Rob cut his teeth in sports marketing, and in a decade’s stint he climbed the ranks to …

James McLaughlin, the agent of cricketer Jonathan Trott and commercial brains behind new football agency 73 Management, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. James has held a number of senior roles in sport since the '90s, first as Head of Sales at Southampton Football Club. He followed that with a stint at Nike and two lengthy periods…

Jackie Fast, Founder and Managing Director of strategic sales agency Slingshot Sponsorship, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Slingshot cuts across all entertainment industries and creates - in its own words - “a strategic commercial framework that helps the world’s leading brands take their investment beyond eyeballs and awareness…

Murray Barnett, Head of Broadcast, Commercial and Marketing at World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Murray’s background is in TV. He first cut his teeth in the sports industry at the NBA, where he was International TV Coordinator, before going on to spend over a decade at sports …

Charlie McEwen, Chief Operating Officer of one of world sport’s most celebrated international teams, the British & Irish Lions, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Charlie has a long and distinguished career in rugby, previously working on both the brand and rights-holder side in senior positions at agencies Octagon and Essentially. …

Barry Hearn, founder of Matchroom Sport, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. As a sports promoter Barry’s been a prominent figure on the UK sporting scene for a number of decades, first with snooker in the 1970s, then with boxing in the 1980s followed by darts in the 1990s. He was also chairman of Leyton Orient football club from 199…

Joel Seymour-Hyde, Senior Vice-President at Octagon, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Octagon is the global sports, entertainment, lifestyle marketing and talent agency of the Interpublic Group, and works with hundreds of blue-chip corporate clients, more than 800 athletes and personalities and manages more than 13,000 events per …

Tom Gorringe, Head of Marketing at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Following stints at Portsmouth and Cardiff City, Tom has been at Brighton for over two years now, a position in which he heads the Championship club's sales strategy across ticketing, commercial, retail and non-matchday even…

Richard Berry, Head of Commercial at the Williams Martini Formula One Racing team, is the feature interview on this week's SB Weekly. Richard is one the most experienced commercial brains in F1, having had - in addition to Williams - stints in the commercial departments at Honda, Brawn and Mercedes. He’s also turned his hand in the business of foot…

Adrian Bevington, a familiar name to anyone working in the UK football business, is the featured interview on this week's SB Weekly. Adrian was Director of Communications at the English Football Association and Managing Director of Club England, the position that oversees the operations of every England football team. In the latter, he oversaw the …

Jim Chaplin, Managing Director of SRi, the international recruitment firm that specialises in sports, media and entertainment, is the featured interview on this week's edition of SB Weekly. SRi was founded in 2001 and has been behind a number of high-profile hires in sport, including recent senior roles at Manchester United, Liverpool, beIN Sports,…

Drew Barrand, Marketing Director of the English Football League (EFL), is a featured interview on this week's SB Weekly. The EFL is the world’s oldest and original league football competition and currently comprises the 72 teams playing in the English Championship, League One and League Two. Drew became Marketing Director in 2014 following stints a…

Graham Fry, Worldwide Managing Director for Production at sports agency giant IMG, is the featured interview on this week's edition of SB Weekly. IMG is the UK’s largest independent TV producer, and is perhaps best known in sporting circles for running the English Premier League Channel, which delivers an all-year-round, 24-hour-a-day content servi…

Jim Dowling, Managing Director of HSE Cake, is the featured interview on this week's edition of SB Weekly. HSE Cake is a brand engagement and entertainment agency based in London that works with a number of high-profile sports sponsors including Barclays, EE and Coca-Cola. It was created last year when Havas Sports & Entertainment and Cake - sister…

Antony Marcou is CEO of Sports Revolution, the sports media and rights agency that works with teams and leagues to boost revenues across their commercial portfolio. It also works with sponsors to maximise the impact of their partnerships in sport Antony has worked in the area of media strategy for about two decades, and has been CEO of Sports Revol…

Richard Gillis, founder of Unofficial Partner, is a sports industry commentator who, as a journalist, has taken a sideways look at the business of sport for around 20 years. Richard’s writing portfolio includes the likes of the Wall Street Journal, The Observer and the Financial Times, and he is a former editor of SportBusiness International magazi…

E-sports - the hottest topic of the last 12 months - represent huge growth potential for operators in various areas of the sports industry, but need to be approached in a different way. That was the message from David Lampitt, Managing Director for Group Operations at Sportradar, on the SB Weekly podcast this week. In addition to Sportradar's activ…

Jamie Aitchison is commercial and development director at creative agency Aurora Media Worldwide and the former sports editor of Channel 4, where he played a key role in the UK commercial broadcaster’s BAFTA-winning coverage of the 2012 London Paralympic Games. In this episode, Jamie Download the podcast to hear Jamie discuss why risk-taking is so …

Matt Rogan is co-founder of sports marketing agency Two Circles and now an executive director of ESP Properties, the sports rights-holder-facing subsidiary of WPP. Two Circles has undergone huge growth since being founded in 2011 – winning agency of year at the 2014 Sport Industry Awards – and this time last year it was acquired by WPP and folded i…

Matt Rogan is co-founder of sports marketing agency Two Circles and now an executive director of ESP Properties, the sports rights-holder-facing subsidiary of WPP. Two Circles has undergone huge growth since being founded in 2011 – winning agency of year at the 2014 Sport Industry Awards – and this time last year it was acquired by WPP and folded i…

Aidan Cooney is the CEO of InCrowd Sports - a company looking to transform the in-stadia experience for fans, clubs and sponsors - and a man perhaps best known for building Opta into the world's leading sports data provider. In this episode, Aidan explains the need for sports teams to invest in digital platforms that help them engage with their fan…

Sophie Goldschmidt is the new Group Managing Director at CSM Sport & Entertainment, the agency made up of a number of leading sports businesses including Essentially, Fast Track and JMI. She joined CSM at the start of the year, moving from the English RFU where she was Chief Commercial Officer for just under five years. In this episode, Sophie outl…

Brendan Taylor is Senior Vice-President at sports agency Wasserman and its Head of Golf for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Brendan has been working in the sport for over 15 years; for just under 10 of those he was at IMG, where he was Vice-President and Head of Recruitment for Europe, before he was poached by Wasserman in 2008 to join its burgeoni…

Steve Martin, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, has more than two decade’s experience advising on - and executing - marketing campaigns for brands, rights-holders and talent from across the sporting landscape. He cut his teeth in the sports industry at adidas, where during the 1990s he rose the ranks in the PR team to eventually reac…

Steve Martin, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, has more than two decade’s experience advising on - and executing - marketing campaigns for brands, rights-holders and talent from across the sporting landscape. He cut his teeth in the sports industry at adidas, where during the 1990s he rose the ranks in the PR team to eventually reac…

Gareth Capon is CEO of Grabyo - the company that identifies itself as the “leader in real-time video” - and the man who formerly led strategy and product development for BSkyB's mobile app portfolio. He has also previously worked at Sony Music, BT and management consultancy Accenture. In this episode, he reflects on the dramatic shift in media cons…

Mike Lee, founder and chairman of strategic communications company VERO, is a man who has helped mastermind a number of bidding campaigns across the sporting landscape including London 2012 and most recently the FIFA presidential campaign of Gianni Infantino. He reflects on how telling the narrative of bid for a sports event or presidential positio…

Warwickshire County Cricket Club's commercial director Gareth Roberts talked to SB Weekly about how the Twenty20 rebrand to the Birmingham Bears has helped drive "significant" increases in revenue. He also discusses how Edgbaston has evolved from a cricket stadium into an all-round leisure venue, reflects on his time at beer giant Carlsberg - where…

Sports industry commentator and Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper spoke to SB Weekly about how moving from country to country when he was growing up gave him a different viewpoint on sport, and how he approaches his writing on sport. Drawing on themes from his best-selling book Soccernomics, he also discusses the myth of the manager, and the gr…

Ben Blanco, UK Head of Sport and Entertainment Marketing at Samsung, spoke to SB Weekly about how the electronics giant judges success in a sports sponsorship deal, how and why the School of Rugby marketing campaign with comedian Jack Whitehall and the England rugby union team became such a hit and how he went from a runner on the Harry Potter film…

The SB Weekly podcast this week is an FA special: a double interview with two former senior sports executives from English football's governing body. Peter Daire (Group Head of Sponsorship, 2007-2014) discusses the ins and outs of setting up your own business, how generating value in sports sponsorship has evolved in the last decade and why too man…

Riccardo Silva, founder of the MP & Silva agency and co-owner of new NASL team Miami FC, told the SB Weekly podcast why his proposed Americas Champions League (ACL) is the "biggest project in the world of football (soccer) in the last 20 years and the next 20 years". He also discussed the reasons for him launching Miami FC, the secrets of MP & Silv…