Shay Segev is the CEO of DAZN Group, the world’s leading sports and entertainment platform. Headquartered in the UK and available in over 200 markets, DAZN is reimagining the way people enjoy sports.

DAZN is the leading digital sports platform in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, and Canada, with a strong presence in France, the US, and the UK.

Its wide range of exclusive content includes top-flight football from the world’s most watched competitions – Bundesliga, English Premier League, J.League, LaLiga, Serie A, and the UEFA Champions League, in addition to the biggest sports from around the world – Formula 1, NFL, NBA, MotoGP and the UFC.  DAZN is the global home of boxing and combat sports, offering the largest year-long schedule of blockbuster fights to fans around the world.

Shay has conceived and overseen the evolution of DAZN’s strategic focus, recruiting an impressive new leadership team from across the worlds of media, technology, entertainment, gaming and sport, while driving an ambitious growth and acquisition programme; using premium sports rights as an anchor to add other engaging and immersive content seamlessly into DAZN’s sports ecosystem.

Within its entertainment ecosystem, in 2022 DAZN launched a recreational betting product, an ecommerce offering, and a range of interactive features that augment the viewing experience and deliver a richer and more interactive experience for customers. In 2023 the pace of innovation and investment has increased. A ground-breaking deal with the NFL to deliver their Game Pass globally, a multi-territory channel partnership with Amazon Prime Video, the development of a in-app merchandise offer with Fanatics, and the launch of DAZN in France with Ligue 1 Uber Eats rights are just some of the highlights.

With much more to come, DAZN is unquestionably the most innovative company in this space and will soon become the ultimate destination for sports fans, globally.

Maite Gómez Fraile, the Head of YouTube Spain and Portugal, is a seasoned technology, marketing, and innovation executive with senior leadership experience at several FMCG companies. In 2014, she joined Google to lead the Consumer Industry business. Since 2021, she has been managing YouTube for Spain and Portugal. She has also led numerous initiatives on diversity and inclusion, and is particularly vocal about the role of women in the technology world.

Alex Green is Managing Director of Sport for Prime Video in Europe. Alex created the strategy and spearheaded the rights negotiations to secure live sport on Prime Video for the first time in Europe including ATP Tour, WTA Tour and US Open tennis and Autumn Nations Series Rugby Union in the UK and Ireland, English Premier League in the UK, Roland-Garros tennis and Ligue 1 football in France and UEFA Champions League football in Germany and Italy. Alex is also responsible for the execution of this sports coverage, including Prime Video’s first season of Premier League coverage in the UK in December 2019, the first time that domestic audiences had seen fully comprehensive live Premier League fixture rounds.

Alice Mascia has 20 years’ valuable experience in the media and telco industries. She has a proven record of launching new business, products, and brands. A recognised international executive, she has led on M&As, business transformation and business strategy and execution. Previously, she held senior roles at Foxtel Group and at Sky Deutschland. Mascia’s huge experience in the industry will help further accelerate DAZN Group’s ambitious growth aspirations in DACH as it becomes the leading sports entertainment platform.

Julie Uhrman is the President and Co-Founder of Angel City Football Club (ACFC), Los Angeles’ professional women’s soccer team that debuted in 2022 in the National Women’s Soccer League. Uhrman founded ACFC with Academy Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman and technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman. ACFC is one of the world’s only majority female-founded, female-owned, and run professional sports teams. Uhrman has also been named One of the Most Influential People in Sports Business 2022 by the Sports Business Journal, one of the Ten Influencers of 2023 by SportsPro Media, a member of Adweek’s 2021 and 2020 Most Powerful Women In Sports, one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, and to the Creative 50 list by Ad Age. In May of 2023, the team was named Sports Team of the Year at the prestigious Sports Business Journal and was the first women’s team ever to win the category (after its inaugural season)..

Julie is active in the Los Angeles sports and technology communities. She is a board member of the LA Sports and Entertainment Council, The Rose Bowl Institute, and the LA Sports Council, and an active executive in the LA Chapter of WISE (Women in Sports and Events), where she was recognized as a 2022 Women of Inspiration Honoree. She is also part of the DraftKings’ All-Star Network as an Advisor to Drive by DraftKings.

Before ACFC, Uhrman served as the EVP and General Manager of OTT Ventures at Lionsgate, Head of Platform Business Development at Jaunt, a virtual reality content startup, and founder of OUYA, a pioneering Android-based game console.

Sanjog Gupta heads the Sports portfolio for Star & Disney India supporting its linear (Star Sports) & non-linear platforms (Disney+ Hotstar) platforms. Star & Disney India is the nation’s leading sports broadcaster and one of the world’s largest, serving more than 600+ million viewers across TV & Digital. His mandate, as part of managing the business, includes content, marketing, production, Tech R&D, revenue, and strategy.

Javier Tebas holds a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza. His involvement in football began in 1993, when he was named president of Sociedad Deportiva Huesca. In 2001, Tebas was elected vice-president of LALIGA, before being named president in April 2013.

His tenure as LALIGA president has revolved around different key core areas; the introduction of a financial controls system, the collective sale of audiovisual rights and the league’s internationalisation, embracing innovation and data strategies and establishing innovative and visionary agreements with key companies across the globe, such as Relevent, Globant, EA sports or CVC, among others.

The Supervisory Board of the commercial entity of the French professional football league appointed Ben Morel as its Chief Executive in the spring of 2023.

An ESCP Europe graduate, Ben Morel has a wealth of experience in the sports and entertainment industry, having served as CEO of Six Nations Rugby since 2018. Ben Morel also previously spent over 20 years at the National Basketball Association (“NBA”), notably as Managing Director and Senior Vice-President for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During his tenure within these two major sport organisations, he played a central role in improving the fan experience, and fostering international growth and development of key revenue streams for re-investment into the sport.

A graduate of IMD Business School for Management and Leadership, Switzerland, Bonsu was previously the Head of Editorial for Women’s Sports at GiveMeSport, where she led one of the most successful launches of the coverage of Women’s Sports in the UK. Upon starting this role in 2019, Benny historically became the UK’s first female sports editor. Before that, she undertook various high-profile on-air endeavors, working alongside broadcasting behemoths BBC, Sky Sports, BT Sport, Modern Times Group, London 2012 Olympics, and Alibaba.

Renowned for her charismatic, direct, and irrepressible approach to sports, she is one most respected leaders by her industry peers. Her distinguished body of work has garnered plaudits far and wide, receiving nominations and awards for “Sports Leader Under 40 of the year” and “Sportswoman of the Year” at the Baton Awards, while also a finalist in the esteemed Women’s Trust Award “Best Media Individual of the Year” category, to name a few.

Bonsu is an ambassador for the Global First Ladies Alliance, UNESCO Fit for Life, and UN Women—also a board director for Basketball England and the Sports Journalists Association.

Today, Bonsu serves as the Director of Daily Content at The International Olympic Committee (Olympics.com and Olympic Channel TV), overseeing all content across the Olympics. She remains a prominent sports business and journalism figure, inspiring young women worldwide.

Bonsu is also a vocal advocate for diversity in sports media and business.

Hannah brings 20 years of experience in finance, sports media, pay TV, corporate ventures and business transformation. This includes 10 years at Sky and Sky Sports in finance, sports rights and sports ventures investing; three years in the US; and, most recently, at Formula E. In 2020, Hannah and Esmeralda Negron co-founded ata football, a streaming platform and community for women’s football fans. Hannah served as an advisor to the business. ata football was acquired by DAZN in 2023 with Hannah and Esmeralda joining DAZN to lead a newly formed women’s sports business unit. DAZN is the biggest investor in women’s football rights globally. Hannah and Esmeralda are charged with developing DAZN’s investment into a significant business opportunity. Hannah is a chartered accountant, qualifying at KPMG.

James Rothwell is Chief Marketing and Content Officer at World Rugby, based in London. James is responsible for building a portfolio of competition brands and their audiences, broadcast and production, social and content programming, the newly launched RugbyPass TV streaming business, and RugbyPass editorial. Prior to World Rugby, James held a number of marketing leadership positions at TikTok, Netflix and Google, and lived and worked in Asia for 9 years.

Charly Classen joined the company as Executive Vice President Sports in November 2020 with responsibility for Sky Deutschland’s entire sports unit. In addition to this, he is responsible for Sky Business Solutions, which looks after Sky’s business customers . Prior to that, Hamburg-born Classen spent 13 years in leading positions at ESPN, most recently as General Manager EMEA, India South East Asia, Australia/New Zealand in London. He can look back on extensive experience in European sports television, digital media and business partnerships. In addition, he is Vice Chair of Special Olympics Great Britain.

Frank Robens is a senior media executive for RTL Deutschland, the leading German private television and sports powerhouse.

He oversees all commercial aspects of RTL´s sports inventory, and under his leadership the group recently partnered with the National Football League, a landmark deal that gets underway from the NFL 2023-24 season.

With a deep global sports media market knowledge, Frank is responsible for other RTL properties including the German Football National Team, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League and Motorsports.

Ben is responsible for all revenue generating and marketing activities at The EFL. His main focus is on Broadcast Rights, Streaming / Digital, Partnerships and brand development / fan engagement.

In a 25-year sports marketing career, Ben has overseen £2bn of commercial rights agreements, with previous roles at Tottenham Hotspur, The FA, Wasserman and Carlsberg.

Róisín O’Shea is COO of Cage Warriors, Europe’s biggest MMA Promotion, and responsible for all 18 live events across Europe and the USA, and also sits on the board of Esports Ireland. Cage Warriors is broadcast live globally on UFC Fight Pass and several other platforms around the world including Eurosport and Mola. It has paved the way for many UFC stars including Conor McGregor, Paddy “the baddie” Pimblett, Molly McCann and many more over 20 years.
Róisín, working out of the CW HQ in London, manages the everyday running of the Cage Warriors business, collaborating with the CEO Graham Boylan who is based in San Diego. Prior to joining Cage Warriors in early 2023, Róisín managed Sports Content Partnerships at Twitter, now X, and before that worked across ticketing, sponsorship, licensing and athlete representation in sport, entertainment and esports.

Róisín lives in Essex with her husband and two children.

20+ years in the sports industry in delivering strategies to drive sustainable growth, engage diverse fans and deliver value. Strong believer in the power of sport to inspire and impact positive change in society. Currently Formula E’s Chief Media Officer, leading on media partnerships and distribution, digital content and product development, broadcast coverage and fan engagement across channels. Previously ICC, Ten Sports and IMG Media/TWI.

Alexander Steinforth joined the NFL as the General Manager of NFL Germany in January 2022, to oversee the growth of the League across the market.

Based in Düsseldorf in the League’s German Headquarters, this involves the strategic management of broadcast, marketing and sponsorship of the NFL, as well as the staging of NFL International Games in both Munich and Frankfurt.

Prior to his role at the NFL, Alex was the Managing Director for the German Olympic Federation, and also worked in strategic and marketing roles for German Bundesliga / Fortuna Düsseldorf, Manchester United and Boston Consulting Group.

Dave has spent over 20 years in the sports and media industry working with tier 1 sports and entertainment properties. He began his career at MLSE in Toronto, Canada before coming to the U.K. in 2006 where he led a global content team for Sky and then oversaw a $100m television distribution department for NBCUniversal. Now he leads Business Development and Strategy for Manchester United FC where he overseas new initiatives in the Digital Products & Experiences division.

Tammy Parlour MBE co-founded Women’s Sport Trust in 2012 and leads the organisation as CEO.
Tammy works 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 for services to gender equality in sport.
Tammy is a Master in the Korean martial art of Hapkido, having practiced for over 40 years. She set up her own Hapkido and meditation school in the early 90s and still coaches regularly. Tammy holds an MSc in Strength & Conditioning, and post-graduate study into Applied Sport Psychology.
With an interest in women’s football, she also volunteers as a Board Director for AFC Wimbledon Women FC.

Derek Chang is an accomplished global media, sports and entertainment executive. Chang is the Executive Chairman of EverPass Media, a platform distributing premium live sports and entertainment content to commercial businesses, and sits on the Boards of Liberty Media (F1, SiriusXM, LiveNation), and Playfly Sports. He has held senior leadership roles across the industry including at NBA China (CEO), Scripps Networks International (HGTV, Food Network), DIRECTV (Content Strategy and Development), Charter Communications, YES Network, Friend MTS and TCI Communications. Chang has been named to Cablefax Magazine’s “Top 100 Executives in Cable” and SBJ’s “50 Most Influential People in Sports Business.”

Alejandro Arenas is the Head of International Sports Partnerships of Snap Inc. since 2022 and previously served as Head of Southern Europe for the International Expansion team. Prior to Snapchat, Alejandro was the Head of Social Media at Real Madrid C.F during 5 seasons and led Real Madrid C.F. to become the largest social media brand and sports community in the world with +350M followers. He started his career in the Sports Marketing department of You First (Top 10 Sport Agencies in the World by Forbes).

Alejandro holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Double Degree in Law & Business Administration from UC3M and a BEMS from Harvard Business School.

Marketing Director at GRUP MEDIAPRO since joining the company in 2009. Ignacio has a degree in Business Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. Prior to joining the Group, Ignacio worked for advertising agencies Young & Rubicam and Ruiz Nicoli, where he managed Key Consumer accounts. He subsequently went on to manage Commercial Communication and Advertising for Pay-TV operator Vía Digital and has also served as Director of Digital Business Development at Audiovisual Sport and Sogecable (Canal+).

Lydia is the founder of professional services consultancy, Triple Crown Consulting. TCC provides broadcasters, sports organisations and rights holders with support on content distribution and IP monetisation strategies. TCC also provides commercial management support for large scale distribution projects, JVs, M&As and channel/OTT launches.

Lydia is a former lawyer with over 20 years’ experience across sports, broadcast and OTT. Prior to setting up TCC, Lydia held the role of SVP Commercial Partnerships, EMEA at Warner Bros Discovery where she led the development of Discovery’s commercial partnerships across its sports and factual channels and its D2C products, discovery+ and Eurosport Player.

Adde Granberg is the CTO of SVT, Sweden’s public service broadcaster. Holding responsibility for 700 people working with production and technology all over Sweden.

Adde has worked in the television industry since 1991. He started out his career at Swedish youth channel ZTV as a sound engineer, which gave him the perfect grounding in TV production and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience about broadcast production and post-production operations.

For many years he ran his own broadcast consultancy, where he began to specialise in live events – managing the broadcast operations and as director for high-profile sporting events such as the UEFA Champions League, the World Ice Hockey Championships and World Athletics Championships.

In 2010 Adde joined Swedish Television (SVT) with a remit to improve the technical infrastructure and workflow at the station. He was responsible for managing the remote TV production for the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Adde was executive producer for what SVT believes is the world’s largest remote production until that date. Alpine World Championship in Åre and Biathlon in Östersund in 2019. Over 80 cameras for over 1 billion viewers.

Adde now strives to move SVT towards an IP and cloud-based future.

Laura López leads the FAST channels sponsorship strategy at Rakuten TV, one of the leading Video On-Demand platforms in Europe that combines TVOD, AVOD and FAST with presence in 43 countries. Rakuten TV has produced more than 20 Original sports documentaries reflecting innovation, empowerment, and optimism.
She joined the company from Sky Media in the UK where she worked across several content partnership teams for Sky’s Entertainment, Sports, News channels and Sky´s channel partners like Paramount +. She´s passionate about digital branded entertainment and has more than 12 years’ experience in international media sales and branded content, including the production of the documentary series “The Tech Race”, for the Olympic Channel.

Querol has led several ventures in Kosmos, including KOI -the well known esports club founded by Kosmos and Ibai Llanos-, the Balloon World Cup or the Sorare Legends project, among many others. Before joining Kosmos, he directed many television shows and worked on content creation for several Spanish media companies (LaSexta, Cadena SER, Cuatro, TV3, Lavinia, BocaBoca, El Terrat or Producciones del Barrio). More recently, he directed the acclaimed documentary series Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona -the eight-episode series showed, for the first time, the day-to-day life of Barça’s locker room-, and was part of Salvados, the most successful current affairs TV show in Spain. He’s now the head of the Kings & Queens League, the revolutionary football competition created by Kosmos.

Alberto Anaya, a transformative leader in the realm of telecommunications and technology, serves as the VP Sales at Qwilt, a vanguard in edge cloud and CDN solutions. With a robust career spanning nearly two decades, Alberto has left his mark at industry powerhouses such as Ericsson, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and played pivotal roles in transitioning startups into scaleups. His adeptness in cloud, edge computing, and CDN is accentuated by his accomplishments with major telco customers like Vodafone and Telefonica. A proud alumnus of IE Business School, Alberto’s commitment to emerging technologies, including AI, Spatial Computing and 5G, makes him an influential voice in the digital landscape. As a speaker, he brings forth a blend of industry insight and forward-thinking perspective, urging the sporting world to harness the power of technological advancement

As Managing Director of FIBA Media, Andrew leads the 17-year joint venture between FIBA and DAZN which encompasses all production and rights commercialisation (broadcast, OTT D2C and data) for FIBA’s premium events. This includes FIBA’s World Cups and Continental championships (and their qualifiers), global junior events and the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. FIBA Media has around 25 dedicated staff but collaborates extensively with sales and production teams within DAZN and scales up for events, managing 800+ personnel at the FIBA World Cup 2019. In addition to its core production and commercial activity, FIBA Media houses its own third party marketing division and established the Courtside 1891 digital brand and joint venture with Two Circles. Andrew was previously the Head of Media Legal and Business Affairs for the International Olympic Committee TMS and was part of the Leaders Under 40 Class of 2020.

Jessie Jill has years of experience working at prestigious world renowned organisations like FC Barcelona, UEFA, international law firms and running her own sports law firm, she is now fully dedicated to entrepreneurship. Being “multi-passionate,” entrepreneurship allows her to explore her diverse interests, combine her expertise in different fields, and pursue a fulfilling career that aligns with values and passions. Her main roles right now consist of her work as a sports consultant for a variety of stakeholders in the sports landscape and as a personal branding coach for individuals seeking to take control of their present and future.

Begoña Liso has carried out her professional career in the audiovisual sector. In the nineties, she went from economic journalism to Sports Rights management.
Liso has been responsible for acquisitions at Canal+, Digital+ and, since 2015 at the Telefónica audiovisual conglomerate, Movistarplus+, both in linear television and digital exploitation.
Since 2003 she has participated in bidding processes for the UCL, FIFA WC, English Premier League or Serie A, as well as in the acquisition of the NBA, NFL, Formula 1, MotoGP World Cup, British Open, Augusta Masters, the Ryder Cup, 6 Nations, Rugby World Cup, Wimbledon, Masters Series or recently the US Open among many others.
Begoña is the mother of a daughter. She swims daily, plays golf poorly, and writes fiction.

Al-Waleed Al-Muhaidib is the Head of Media and Communications at Saudi Pro League team Al-Nassr FC as well as a Lecturer at Media College in IMSIU.

Al-Waleed was a Line Producer, and Content Manager for several sports TV shows from 2015 – 2020. Al-Waleed holds a Masters degree in Film Studies, from the university of Manchester and a Bachelor degree in TV and Films from IMSIU.

Peter Bellamy is Chief Commercial Officer at Endeavor Streaming. In his role, Peter oversees the global commercial business, working with prospects and partners to drive OTT initiatives. He is also responsible for managing the company’s portfolio of clients, helping to define and deliver their go-to-market and post-launch strategies. Peter joined Endeavor Streaming as part of the acquisition of NeuLion in 2018. Prior to NeuLion, Peter was Commercial Director at Saffron Digital, an OTT start-up he helped develop into a market leader in movie and TV-focused OTT. This led to the successful sale of Saffron Digital into NeuLion. Previously, Peter also held commercial positions at BSkyB working on sports and entertainment media rights deals. He is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University in South Yorkshire, England.

As Head of Product Marketing, Chris Wilson’s role focuses on leading MediaKind’s business development and sales strategy in the sports market. Over the past few years, he’s focused on developing new segments in the live sports and events space – everything ranging from soccer to eSports, concerts, festivals and shows.