2. ABOUT LEADERS
Leaders events are exclusive, invitation-only and for the senior decision makers in sport
business. With conferences in Football, Performance, Sponsorship, Digital Sport and
Horseracing, Leaders incorporates a number of high level conferences as well as a
series of specific workshops and networking opportunities.
MISSION
It is the purpose of Leaders to champion professional excellence in the business of sport
and to provide the business of sport with unique platforms to meet, exchange ideas,
learn and do business.
VISION
Where the world’s sport leaders meet
VALUES
QUALITY INNOVATION
INTERNATIONALITY TRUSTWORTHINESS
PASSION RESPONSIVENESS
4. LEADERS IN FOOTBALL
“The atmosphere is excellent and the SPEAKERS:
David Bernstein, Chairman, The Football Association
speakers are all top level.” Jim Boyce, Vice President, FIFA Executive Committee
- GIANNO INFANTINO, GENERAL Tom DiBenedetto, President & Chairman, AS Roma
SECRETARY, UEFA Dr Chung Moon-Joon, Former Vice President FIFA and
FIFA Executive Committee Member
Angel Maria Villar Llona, President, Spanish Football
“Brings together the top people in the Federation
game from across the world.“ Alexey Sorokin, CEO, Russian 2018 World Cup
- JEAN-CLAUDE BLANC, CEO, Organising Committee
Danny Jordaan, CEO, South Africa World Cup Organising
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN Committee
5. LEADERS IN PERFORMANCE
“A great initiative. All sports can learn SPEAKERS:
from each other and I came here to Arsene Wenger, Manager, Arsenal FC
interchange ideas.” Peter Vint, High Performance Director, US Olympic
Committee
- JOHANN BRUYNEEL, SPORTS David Brailsford, Performance Director, British Cycling
DIRECTOR, TEAM RADIO SHACK Tony Strudwick, , Head of Sports Science, Manchester
United
Mark Cavendish, World Champion Cyclist, & Tour de
“This is an event to find a way to get France Green Jersey winner
over here for.” RC Buford, General Manager, San Antonio Spurs
- BILLY BEANE, GENERAL Gerry Ramogida, UK Athletics & Seattle Seahawks
MANAGER, OAKLAND A’S Bruno Demichelis, Assistant Manager, Chelsea FC
6. LEADERS IN SPONSORSHIP
“The right content, the right people – a SPEAKERS:
world class event!” Jean-Claude Biver, Chief Executive Officer, Hublot
- SCOTT O’NEILL, PRESIDENT, Eelco van der Noll, Global Director of Sports &
Entertainment, AB InBev
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Laurent Colette, Chief Marketing Officer, FC Barcelona
SPORTS Mark Waller, Chief Marketing Officer, NFL
Chris Katsuleres, Olympic & Sport Marketing Director,
GE
“A great chance to tell rights holders
Boutros Boutros, Senior Vice President, Corporate
what we want and how best to Communications, Emirates
approach us.” Nathan Homer, Olympics Project Director, P&G
- INNES VAN GENNIP, HEAD OF Tom Fox, Chief Commercial Officer, Arsenal FC
BRAND MARKETING, SAMSUNG
7. LEADERS IN DIGITAL SPORT
“First class conference! The attendee SPEAKERS:
quality and speaker line up was Ralph Rivera, Director of Future Media, BBC
excellent!” Bob Bowman, President, MLB.com
Claude Rauibal, Global Head of Sports Content
- ALEX BALFOUR, HEAD OF NEW Partnerships, YouTube
MEDIA, LONDON 2012 Richard Cordella, General Manager, NBC Sports &
Olympics Digital
Carsten Schmidt, Chief Officer Sports, Sky Deutschland
“It’s been a tremendous day! The best
Steve Norris, Head of Sport, BT
place for us to be.” Richard Ayers, Director of Digital Media, Manchester City
- ANDREW WILSON, EXECUTIVE FC
VICE PRESIDENT, EA SPORTS Sandra Pecis, Vice President of Media, Terra
8. LEADERS IN RACING
“Extremely good content and an SPEAKERS:
incredibly useful platform!” Philippe Germond, Chairman & CEO, PMU
Winfried Engelbrecht Bresges, CEO, Hong Kong Jockey
- PAUL ROY, CHAIRMAN, BRITISH Club
HORSERACING AUTHORITY Simon Bazalgette, CEO, The Jockey Club
Edward Wray, Founder & Chairman, Betfair Group
“Opportunity to meet almost everybody Paul Bittar, CEO, British Horseracing Authority
from racing!” John Penrose, MP and Minister for Tourism & Heritage
Rian du Plessis, Group CEO, Phumelela
- ANDREAS TIEDTKE, CEO,
Kim Heng Teo, Vice President, Singapore Turf Club
GERMAN THOROUGHBRED Brendan Parnell, Chief Operating Officer, Tabcorp
ASSOCIATION
10. THE WORLD’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS SPORT BUSINESS SUMMIT
80+ WORLD CLASS SPEAKERS GLOBAL MEDIA COVERAGE
50+ COUNTRIES SECTOR SPECIFIC WORKSHOPS
40+ SPORTS UNRIVALLED CONTENT