LEARNFAST EVENT : SPORTS & BUSINESS, WHERE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?

SPORTS & BUSINESS, WHERE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES ?

Jean-Etienne Amaury, Stanford MBA Class of 2007

President of Amaury Sport Organisation, a company that owns, designs and organises top international sporting events. A.S.O. organises 240 days of competition per year, with 90 events in 25 countries. A.S.O. is involved in 5 major sports including cycling with Le Tour de France, motor sports with the Dakar, sailing with the Tour Voile, mass events with the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris and golf with the Lacoste Ladies Open de France. Amaury Sport Organisation is a subsidiary of the Amaury Group, media and sport group that owns the newspaper L’Equipe.

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Elis Wyn Jones

Elis Wyn Jones is responsible for leading Goldman Sachs’ Sports Advisory Business in EMEA, whilst also covering additional locations around the world and working very closely with colleagues and businesses in the US. In doing so, Elis covers a large portion of the Global Sports ecosystem across all major Sports, including Federations, Leagues, Franchises and Clubs, as well as Sports Media, Entertainment and Tech businesses.

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Andreea Koenig

Founder of Galvanic Sports

Andreea is a former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan banker. She founded Galvanic Sports, advising football clubs on financial, environmental and social sustainability. She sits on the board member of RC Lens and Calcio Padova.

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Xavier Marin

Managing Partner of Trail Capital

Trail Capital has just announced the launch of Slam (for sport, luxury, art and music), a €200 million fund to take advantage of the growth prospects offered by this growing interconnection of universes.

Prior to founding Trail in 2007, Xavier Marin was a member of the board of directors and co-head of investments at Eurazeo.

Xavier Marin holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.

 

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