Peter is SVP Business Development and in this role he oversees partnerships with major mobile operators, telecom operators, platforms, retailers, brands and portals. He’s responsible for striking distribution deals – making the revolutionary sport streaming service available on all screens – which fuels the rapid expansion of DAZN around the world.

Peter joined from Electronic Arts (EA) where, over the course of 12 years, he reached the position of VP, Mobile Publishing, EMEA, & LATAM, after being previously Head of Global Telecom Partners.

DAZN is currently live in over 200 markets and territories, as part of its ambitious growth strategy as the leading global sports broadcaster.

Marissa is an internationally recognised sports marketing executive.  She worked at the highest levels of sports, content and broadcast including Head of Digital at Formula One and various content, marketing and broadcast roles working with the NFL, NASCAR and PGA. Through her career, Marissa has led global digital strategies, international campaigns, content teams and has retained a laser focus on the changing audience needs.

With rugby experiencing rapid growth, she is responsible for the World Rugby’s fan-engagement, marketing and content strategies.  Key achievements since her appointment include award winning Rugby World Cup social and digital platforms and a complete overhaul of the broadcast and content strategy for the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Series.

Marissa, who originally hails from Canada, is a passionate sports fan, beekeeper, fly fisherman and played rugby at University.

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In her current role Nina is overseeing all B2C activities on the Bundesliga’s owned-and-operated digital channels and across various languages. DFL Digital Sports GmbH is a fully owned subsidiary of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH, responsible for the distribution of the Bundesliga’s digital content. She started her sports journey working for Public Content Partnerships at Facebook, helping shape the strategy for the top tier sports, media, politics and entertainment clients in the EMEA region across the company’s family of platforms – including Instagram and Mentions. Then, she moved to UEFA, leading social media and digital partnerships, with the scope to drive new business revenue and audience growth for European Football, following working for Google Search, leading strategic content partnerships and actions integrations for Media & Sports in EMEA. She joined the DFL group in 2020.

An industry-leading OTT streaming platform designed specifically to engage with younger, digitally-driven football fans around the world, OneFootball welcomed Nikolaus von Doetinchem as a key appointment in April 2021 to drive and build the company’s global media rights business. He serves as Vice President OTT & Media Rights and oversees OneFootball’s live-streaming and on-demand content offering. Von Doetinchem joined with a wealth of unrivalled experience following an extensive career of more than 20 years working within the sports media rights industry. He previously worked as President Media for global sports marketing agency SPORTFIVE.

Tommy reached a career-high PSA World Ranking of 22 before retiring to become a promoter of numerous high-profile PSA tournaments including the 2011 PSA World Championship for men and women. Berden, who played a pivotal role in uniting professional men’s and women’s squash in 2015, is part of the PSA’s Senior Management Team and is responsible for all commercial matters of the PSA.

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Mr. Reif is the Senior Vice President of International for Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to the sport of tennis. In his role, Mr. Reif is responsible for the expansion of Tennis Channel outside of the United States. Mr. Reif is leading the development and launch of a global OTT (over-the-top) digital service targeted at the tennis fan which will be launching in early 2020.

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James leads commercial and product activities for GeoComply’s GeoGuard solution. GeoGuard is the world’s most accurate solution for detecting users on VPNs, proxies and other anonymising techniques. Approved by rights owners, GeoGuard is designed to block fraud, increase legitimate viewership and optimise infrastructure usage.

Jack leads the Ampere Sports team, which is responsible for researching and analysing the sports media rights markets in a variety of territories around the world, as well as providing insights on the wider sports business landscape on a club and competition level. He joined Ampere Analysis in January 2021, and has nearly a decade of experience in the media and TV space. Prior to joining Ampere Analysis Jack has worked at the UK media regulator Ofcom, as well as leading media research houses and consultancies. He has worked with a range of clients across multiple media sectors including regulators, public entities, tech giants, broadcasters, telcos, pay TV providers and OTT players. Jack holds a Master of Sciences from the London School of Economics and speaks English, Italian and French.

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Yael Fainaro is EVP, Security. In her role Yael is responsible for Synamedia’s Security Group. Yael has over 18 years’ experience in the security technology industry in the areas of strategy, M&A, innovation, business development & post-merger integration. Prior to joining Synamedia, Yael served as VP Corporate Development of CyberArk Software (NASDAQ: CYBR) where she was responsible for leading the company’s strategy and for generating new growth activities through organic and in-organic initiatives. Prior to that, Yael held the position of Director, Corporate Development and Integration at Cisco, which she joined through the NDS acquisition in 2012.

Andy Meikle is Founder and CEO of start-up technology company Recast. Founded in 2018, Recast is a sports video platform that brings the best of social media, sports broadcasting, on-demand video and micropayments together in one, and is currently revolutionising the sports media and rights landscape for fans, brands and rights owners.

Within 3 years Recast has gone from concept to now delivering a real-time OTT solution which allows rights holders to set up and run their own direct-to-consumer, non subscription channel in minutes at no cost.  Recast is already helping athletes, organisations and National Governing Bodies, of all sizes, realise their digital potential. 

Since entering the sports industry in 2011, Andy has gained a wealth of knowledge in the Tech, Media and Digital space and is recognised as a leader driving change in the industry. Andy previously founded Sportlobster, a ground-breaking digital sports platform providing fans with personalised access to stats, news, scores, and predictions, growing to millions of users through hundreds of key partners, including Cristiano Ronaldo, the NBA, the NFL and Emirates Airlines.