Industry Moves

World Netball has ended its near year-long search for a permanent chief executive, turning to Fiona Harold, commercial director of golf's Ladies European Tour

Sportfive has established a dedicated sales division for women's football, as agency competition in the space intensifies.

IMG is currently looking to recruit a vice-president of football in the Americas and a vice-president of rights in Latin America after losing some key experience in the region

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has appointed former Real Madrid executive Ramón Plaza Bautista as commercial and business development manager.

Lars Stegelmann, the former head of commercial for the Visa Cash App Formula 1 team and one-time commercial director for the DTM sports car racing series, has been appointed to lead a new office in Germany for the Two Circles marketing agency.

Santiago Sluzewski Monti, who has headed up media rights trading at Torneos for the last eight years, is leaving the Argentina-based rights agency.

Former ESPN and Formula 1 executive Sean Bratches has landed a new role as chairman of US-based sports marketing agency Relevent Sports.

Melissa Soobratty, senior media director of World Table Tennis, will serve as Professional Squash Association's head of media and marketing.

Chris Foy to take up position as Wasserman's executive vice-president and managing director of rights sales for North America

Paul Calder has taken up a role as media sales director at Two Circles, the data-driven sports marketing and sponsorship sales agency, charged with leading the growth of its broadcast rights division

Brisbane 2032 has swooped for one of Paris 2024's top commercial executives as it embarks on its bid to hit a domestic sponsorship target of around A$2bn ($1.3bn/€1.2bn) for the Olympic Games in eight years' time.

Matthias Kirschenhofer has become the sole chief executive of German sports broadcaster Sport1 following the closure of a 50-per-cent equity stake sale to Acunmedya, the Turkish media group

OneFootball has wound up its Singapore-based Asia-Pacific operations amid a small number of redundancies globally as the media platform continues to reshape its business, SportBusiness understands

IMG is reshuffling its operations in the Asia-Pacific region, relocating from Singapore to Sydney under the joint guidance of Dale Levin and Matt Dwyer, SportBusiness can reveal.

M&C Saatchi Group has recruited Robin Clarke from the Endeavor-owned marketing agency 160over90 to head up its sport and entertainment businesses following the recent high-profile exit of senior executive…

Experienced UK media rights executive Hannah Griffiths has joined global sports streaming service and media company DAZN in its broadcast partnerships business