Blogs

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 approach to sponsorship and partnerships specifically Platformation is a young business, but we ... 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 backdrop for ESA’s first ever joint profile? John TrainorCEO and Founder, ONSIDE Jon ... 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 from others and what advice they’d share themselves. Sophie Morris, ESA Board Director and Director ... 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 Marketing Group by Chicago-based sports marketing agency, rEvolution. The main aspect of my role has ... 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 enables brands and rightsholders to optimise the success of sponsorships.  Can you tell us ... 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 Sponsorship Sales Certificate? Having the opportunity to step back from the ‘live’ selling environment ... 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, I’ve been fortunate to undertake the ESA Diploma, and this year had the proud honour of being an ... 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 team. Can you tell us a little bit about PHAR Partnerships ? PHAR Partnerships is a global ... 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 rights holders. Our mission is to be on the desktop of anyone within a sports & entertainment ... 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 Athletic, I spent over ten years working at The Telegraph in the sport partnerships team. So, what is ... 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 virtual venues. vVenues offers a publishing tool covering the full event experience from ... 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 Ireland is the retail subsidiary of ESB, and a market leader in the highly competitive energy sector ... 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 development of activations in sponsorship and with partnerships that help to extend our ideas to new ... 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 sport and seen the opportunities that the third presents. Today, it’s time to explore how you and your ... 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 new era. One where women’s sports are arguably some of the most compelling partnership opportunities ... read more