Cristina is Movistar+ CEO, Advisor of the company and Board Member of Telefónica Spain. Catalyst for transformation for high perfoming and customer centric teams, resulting in growing, more productive and happier companies. With +15 years experience as Board Member and C-Level on Marketing (she became CMO and Board Member at the age of 29) at top companies on Media, Telecom, Entertainment and Mass Market, Cristina has led profound transformation processes reshaping those companies via innovative, and people centric leadership practices. She was also part of the Council responsible for selling CANAL+ and for the subsequent integration within Telefonica. She is an organizational and cultural changemaker and has broad international experience managing +30 businesses for up to 13 different markets and she has lived in different countries.

Sameer is the Managing Director of International Media at National Football League (NFL), with a breadth of experience working in the sports media industry. Over the past 15 years he has worked with leading rightsholders including the IOC, Manchester United and leading European football leagues to leverage technology to reach new fans across the globe. Sameer holds an economics degree from Cambridge University.

Matt Drew is Senior Vice President at WWE, a publicly traded (NYSE: WWE) global media company. As Head of International, Drew oversees WWE’s global media partners, including BT Sport, Sony, Discovery, Disney and Foxtel. He is also responsible for the company’s international operations including global strategy for WWE’s live events, digital, consumer products and new revenue opportunities outside the United States. Drew previously served as Executive Vice President, Rights Acquisition at DAZN. In this role, he was responsible for the streaming platform’s rights portfolio and partnerships across the Americas, Europe and Asia, managing relationships with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, LaLiga, Bundesliga and F1, among others. Prior to that, Drew was EVP of Business Development at Stats Perform and Head of Corporate Development at Opta.

Anne Detlefsen is the Senior Director of Digital Content at the PGA TOUR. She leads a team of content creators who engage with golf fans across our owned and operated platforms. A storyteller at heart, she’s been elevating the stories of the athletes and the PGA TOUR since 2010, focusing on driving audience growth globally and bringing innovative and engaging programming to our fans. Working in various roles, she’s established strategies around emerging social platforms, betting and produced award-winning multimedia stories.

Ed Romaine joined Bleacher Report in 2018 and is currently overseeing all of the company’s marketing efforts in order to build on investments and grow the preeminent sports culture brand. He oversees the brand, design, and experience teams to consistently bring to life initiatives emanating from B/R’s content, operations, sales, and other key business groups. Under his leadership, B/R has become the No. 1 partner for sponsored content in the sports market, and the No. 1 partner by engagements for all digital video. B/R has owned engagement with the brand’s authenticity and ability to create content that resonates with its young audience. The company’s bold voice in the sports media world provides the best user experience with both curation and original content creation.

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Online competition platform and tournament organizer FACEIT hired Giulia Zecchini as its new commercial strategy lead in 2021. Zecchini will leverage her background in data analytics to better showcase the potential value of FACEIT’s platform to brand partners.

Meghna Krishna is the Chief Revenue Officer at Videoverse. As part of her job she is responsible for revenue maximization along with facilitating strategic partnerships and innovative marketing solutions for the overall growth of the company. Her unique leadership shines through her ability to build passionate teams focused on delivering the best quality services to their clients.

Marion currently runs The Local Act Consultancy, empowering streaming video services to launch and grow in Western Europe. With 17 years of experience in the industry, and as a film and TV lover, she advises SVOD, AVOD and FAST services on how to launch and grow in Europe through her deep knowledge of the varying markets, and with a strong content offering and distribution network in place.

Carolina Santos is the ATP Media’s Head of Broadcast Operations & Engineering. Her role is to work on the broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP Tour to help automate, optimise and manage the delivery of live match feeds via the cloud.

Finn recently moved to Dubai to join the International Cricket Council in the newly established head of digital role. Previously, he led the digital strategy for the Australian Open at Tennis Australia and established Cricket Australia’s digital program. Way before that he worked across magazines and digital for News Corp.

Rhiannon is a bilingual broadcast journalist with over fifteen years experience covering news and sport. Currently working at GB News as a presenter, Rhiannon’s previous broadcasting work includes CNN, TalkSPORT, Real Madrid TV, FOX Sports, Euronews and ITN.

DAZN Group’s Laura Louisy joined the National Football League in 2021 in the role of director, international media strategy and business development.

Based in Johannesburg, as SVP for Africa, Deon Pinetown oversees PM Connect’s operations and growth in the Africa region. He has an extensive background in digital services, mobile payments and DCB for the market-leading telco, Vodacom – part of Vodafone Group. Deon is passionate about making in-demand content accessible to all – using the power of mobile to bring premium sports to the masses in Africa. Thanks to Deon’s work, PM Connect is now active in territories in all corners of the African continent, carrying out the mission of democratising sports content.

Laurence is the VP of Sports Technology at NTT DATA. He has held various roles across the company since 2013 including lead enterprise architect and VP of technology consulting. Laurence has further experience across the Telco sector having worked with T-Mobile International for more than 10 years.

Fabio Gallo is the head of product at LaLiga Tech, where he is leading the global development of new solutions, partnerships and monetisation strategies across the organisation and their implementation with a global client base.

Over a 20-year career in the sports technology industry he has held senior roles at Deltatre, StreamAMG, as well as leading major digital transformation projects for FC Barcelona and Dorna Sports (MotoGP). Most recently, he was the VP of Sales for EMEA, APAC and LATAM for ViewLift, leading the company’s expansion into the global OTT industry.

Emma is a Manager at Futures Sport + Entertainment, and has been with the company since 2018. Futures is a sports business consulting company focusing primarily on television viewership, consumer research, and sponsorship valuation for various international clients, from rights-holders to brands. Recent research from the company for the Women’s Sport Trust, co-led by Emma, details the growth in media coverage and exposure of women’s sport in the United Kingdom.

Chris has been a Trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust (WST) since 2017 and leads on the WST’s visibility of women’s sport research. In a career spanning two decades in sport, he has worked in communications and digital roles at the Premier League, ICC, BBC Sport and Nielsen Sports and was also a Non-Executive Director of the Rugby Football League between 2018-2022. He is currently a sports consultant, working with leading UK and international organisations.

Peter Bellamy is SVP, Global Head of Sport and International Media & Entertainment at Endeavor Streaming. In his role, Peter works closely with prospects and partners to drive new OTT initiatives. He is also responsible for managing the company’s existing portfolio of clients to define and deliver their go-to-market and in-life strategy. 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 which he helped develop into a market leader in Movie and TV focused OTT. This lead to the successful sale of Saffron Digital into NeuLion. 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.

Fred Santarpia is a digital media and business transformation expert. He currently serves as president of Endeavor Streaming, where he spearheads the company’s global expansion strategy. Before joining Endeavor Streaming, Fred was chief operating officer at Moda Operandi and, previously, chief digital officer at Condé Nast, where he founded and launched the digital arm of Condé Nast’s entertainment division. Fred was also a founding member of the leadership team at VEVO and served as EVP & general manager. Prior to VEVO, Fred worked at Universal Music Group in a variety of senior leadership roles. Fred is a graduate of Villanova University and holds an M.S. in finance from Boston University. He currently resides in New Jersey.

Karen Lyttle is the Head of Digital Development at The R&A, leading the team to deliver the Technology Strategy across the organisation, including the management of all digital, software, systems and technology development projects across The R&A, The Open, the AIG Women’s Open and World Amateur Golf Ranking. Karen is currently leading the Technology Team through a change and transformation programme.

Michael Riceman is Vice President, Original and Social Content at the PGA TOUR, working alongside a talented PGA TOUR Media and Content team. His responsibilities include maximizing player content and TOUR storytelling across all digital and linear platforms. Michael oversees all ancillary programming for CBS, NBC, Golf Channel and ESPN as well as all TOUR social content, which includes 42 channels across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. He also leads all PGA TOUR branded content, field and post-production as well as business and content operations.

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.

Paola Marinone is the Co-Founder and CEO of BuzzMyVideos, a next-generation tech media company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube. Paola is an ex Google/YouTube manager turned tech entrepreneur. She is currently based in London, with an international career in technology, and has lived all over the globe, counting 8 countries so far. Having worked for Google in its early days, and then founded BuzzMyVideos, she has lived first hand the transformation of entire industries and built a cutting edge knowledge on anything related to online video.

Kjetil Horneland is the founder and CEO of SaaS platform Ease Live, which was recently acquired by Evertz in 2020. Ease Live enables sports leagues, broadcasters and OTT services to engage their fans and create new revenue streams by adding interactive overlays with live stats, polls, quizzes and more on top of their video streaming services. The next generation viewing experience is all about the fan and how they engage with content tailored to their needs. Ease Live is deployed worldwide with some of the largest leagues and broadcasters in the world and handles millions of real time connections in the cloud. In addition to providing state of the art tools for creating and distributing interactive overlays that are synced to the broadcast, the platform also offers deep insights into user behavior, enabling customers to gather first party data and to deliver better experiences into the market, faster. Now part of Evertz, Ease Live delivers synchronized OTT experiences with the broadcast, all powered by remote cloud operations and state of the art sports production technology.

Over 25 years experience in the Content and Media Business, with a strong background in the Content Production & Rights Acquisition, Marketing, Product Design, … and the ability to execute and manage the business on the Spanish Media Market and the International One for Telefonica in the last 10 years. Over this time, he has been a responsible for Director of Contents in Telefónica S.A., Development of New Business within the Telefónica Group, launching the IPTV (Pay TV Service), launching several OTT Services (Music, Games, eBooks, …), etc. in connection to the core telecommunications business (fix & mobile voice, broadband).

A senior digital marketing executive with over 20 years of digital marketing and technology experience across both B2C and B2B. Craig has an extensive and deep knowledge in developing and executing digital transformation and marketing engagement strategies that have a proven record in improving business performance. He is a focused and passionate change agent who strives to build world class teams that transform, innovate and disrupt legacy marketing models. Craig has broad & detailed knowledge of the digital technology landscape, brand planning, online consumer behaviour, mobile marketing, content development and consumer experiences and has been responsible for developing brand marketing strategies and digital transformation programs for some of the worlds largest brands including Rentokil Initial, STA Travel, Nokia, Microsoft and Tata. In doing so Craig has been able to develop and deliver world leading digital transformation programs that have fundamentally enhanced how companies engage with customers while also transforming internal business processes to be more relevant in a digital first world.

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