Speakers & Panellists

Future Sponsorship is designed to challenge establish views and push the boundaries of sponsorship debate around Europe. It’s a big promise to deliver and so we invite dynamic industry figureheads at the very top of their game to inspire and energise the Future Sponsorship audience.

Further speaker updates will be released shortly however here are just some of the companies confirmed to speak at Future Sponsorship 08:

Gerhard Heiberg
Chair of Marketing, IOC

Adriaan Thierry
Marketing & Sales Director, Red Bull Air Race World Series

Aldo Liguori
Corporate Vice President and Head of Global Communications & PR, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications

Jocelyn Robiot
Head of Sports Marketing, Adidas

Sonja Unger
Motorsport Business Relations, Porsche Motorsport

Rob Dreblow
Marketing Manager, World Federation of Advertisers

Karen Earl
Chairman, European Sponsorship Association

Nigel Hollis
Chief Global Analyst, Millward Brown

Lesa Ukman
President & Co-Founder, IEG LLC

Maarten Kuurman
Project Manager, ABN AMRO

Igor Stolyarov
Vice President for Marketing, Commercial Operations and Communications, Sochi 2014

Paul Bainsfair
Chairman, Lean Mean Fighting Machine

Fredrik Ulfsater
Deputy Global Commercial Director, Eurosport

Warren Burke
European Commercial Director, Yahoo!

James Smythe
Head of Sports Research, BMRB/Millward Brown

Fredda Hurwitz
Managing Director, Cunning

Patrick Wendt
Marketing & Sponsorship Manager, Toyota Motorsport

Scott MacLeod
Senior Vice President of Business Development, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour

David Peters
Head of Sponsorship, Carat