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The European Sponsorship Association is pleased to announce nine graduates from the June 2022 intake of the ESA Sponsorship Sales Certificate. Under the guidance of Course ... read more

Guest blog by ESA member Bright Partnerships It’s that time of year again when music fans flock to fields to drink warm beers, pray to the sun gods and soak up their favourite music. Not ... read more

Jamie HosieDirector Give us a brief overview of E10, and your role within the company E10 is a dynamic and fast-growing commercial and marketing agency, focused on maximising returns for ... read more

Martin FallonHead of Commercial Partnerships Give us a brief overview of the Motorsport UK’s approach to sponsorship and partnerships As the national governing body for four-wheeled ... read more

Sadie McKinlayHead of Development Please give us a brief overview of the Edinburgh International Festival’s approach to sponsorship and partnerships The Edinburgh International Festival exists ... read more

What's your name and position within the organisation? Maria WalshCOO and co-owner of Platformation Enterprise Services Ltd. Give us a brief overview of Platformation in general and your ... read more

ONSIDE owes a debt of gratitude to ESA. John Trainor and Jon Long first crossed paths as Judges of the ESA Awards in 2018 and started collaborating on projects shortly afterwards. Isn’t that a lovely ... read more

To celebrate International Women’s Day, ESA spoke to four women at different stages of their careers to understand the successes and challenges they’ve experienced so far, the help they’ve received ... read more

George GilmoreBusiness Director Hello, I'm George Gilmore, Business Director at rEvolution. I joined rEvolution in March 2019, shortly after the exciting acquisition of Revolution Sports ... read more

Eva GerritseBusiness Lead Sponsoring Insights Hi, I’m Eva Gerritse and I manage strategy and growth at Blauw Sponsoring Insights; a market research agency specialised in consumer insights that ... read more

Catherine Hawkins, ESA Sponsorship Sales Certificate Course Director, outlines various benefits and insights to be gained from studying it. What are the tangible benefits of doing the ESA ... read more

Stuart OwenSport & Sponsorship Lead Hi, I’m Stuart! I’ve been with SQN for six years working across a range of our sponsorship, PR, content, and comms clients. During my time with the company, ... read more

David HogginsPartnerships Director David heads up the Partnerships division in the UK, managing many of PHAR's key rights-holder relationships and has a particular focus on growing the Cycle Hire ... read more

Steve OlechowskiCo-founder and CEO Can you tell us in less than 100 words what Blinkfire Analytics does? Blinkfire Analytics is a SaaS platform for optimizing sponsorship sales for brands and ... read more

Nick GreenCommercial Partnerships Director, UK What is your role at The Athletic? I joined The Athletic as UK Commercial Partnerships Director in December 2020. Before joining The ... read more

Mats MilebladCEO Can you give us a general overview of vVenues? vVenues is the virtual event platform designed to support agencies in creating virtual events, exhibitions and other types of ... read more

Sarah SharkeyBrand, PR & Sponsorship Manager Give us a brief overview of Electric Ireland as a company in general and your approach to sponsorship and partnerships specifically. Electric ... read more

David AtkinsonManaging Partner Can you tell us what your company does? Space is a creative agency that solves client problems with ideas that go beyond convention. We specialise in the ... read more

By James Masters on behalf of CSM Welcome to the last article in our week of blogs exploring the eras of women’s sport. Along the way you’ve heard the story of the first two eras of women's ... read more

A new era for extraordinary athletes, organisations and brands By James Masters on behalf of CSM Here we are. In the now. No more history lessons. We believe that we are at the start of a ... read more