New Global Advisory Board appointed to guide ambitious growth plans
Top brand, media and sport visionaries from around the world line up behind global sport and entertainment leader, CSM.
A Global Advisory Board, made up of highly experienced business leaders and luminaries representing a wide and talented range of commercial and client service expertise, has been appointed to help steer and inform CSM’s ambitious performance and growth plans.
Commenting on the appointment of the board CSM Group CEO, Zak Brown, said: “Through our international presence, CSM is active in every major sport, in every region with world-class services ranging from strategy to execution. We have ambitious plans to capitalise fully on the strong growth in the global sport and entertainment industry. To help us do this, we have brought in some of the best and most highly experienced brand and business leaders, who bring essential perspectives from the worlds of brands, media, agencies, major events, strategy and finance – all of key importance to CSM’s plans.”
The external members of the new CSM Global Advisory Board are:
- Magnus Böcker, former CEO, Singapore Exchange
- Sean R.H. Bratches, former EVP, Sales and Marketing, ESPN
- Andrew Craig, CEO, The Craig Company
- Nigel Garfitt, former Market Director, Apple Retail
- Rob Malcolm, former President, Global Marketing, Sales & Innovation, Diageo plc
- Mark D. Miles, President and CEO, Hulman & Company
- Christine Owens, former SVP, Communications and Brand Management UPS
- Ian Todd, former President, IMG International
Please click on the names above for further information or visit the website here: http://www.csm.com/our-people/
Brown went on to say: “With such an impressive team at our side, a team that represents a broad array of contemporary commercial expertise, CSM’s already impressive leadership experience and expertise has now been hugely amplified.”
Sebastian Coe, CSM Chairman, also commented: “Under Zak’s leadership, CSM is working with new owner Providence Equity Partners on a growth plan that includes both acquisitions and organic growth. The plans that we have in place are pretty impressive, and I am delighted to be able to welcome such a strong group of leaders and luminaries to advise us as we grow around the world. This advisory board in itself presents CSM with a source of significant competitive advantage in the market place.”
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Enquiries
Tim Bampton, CMO, CSM
Tel: +44 20 7593 5239
Mbl: +44 7468 714614
Jackie Brock-Doyle, CSM Communications
Tel: +44 20 7593 5204
Mbl: +44 7876785756
Notes to Editors
CSM is a global leader in the business of sport and entertainment and is part of Chime Communications. CSM is active in every major sport through world-class services from strategy to execution. The organisation is made up of a number of specialist agencies and operates on every continent with over 800 people across 26 offices in 19 countries. For more information, please go to www.csm.com
Chime is a sport, entertainment and communications group present in six continents, 20 countries and 32 cities. The group comprises: CSM in sport and entertainment; the VCCP Partnership in marketing communications; OPEN Health in healthcare communications, public relations and market access; CIE in market research; Good Relations, Teamspirit and Harvard in PR; and the Chime Specialist Group for communications in specialist market places. For more information, please go to www.chimegroup.com
