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Experienced tennis executive and new ATP chief Chris Kermode gives Matt Cutler his vision for men’s tennis, and why he wants to turn ATP World Tour events into sports entertainment behemoths.

Sir Keith Mills, inventor of the Air Miles and Nectar loyalty schemes and the man who masterminded London’s successful 2012 Olympic Games bid, tells us about a distinguished career that now sees him working alongside Prince Harry to organise this September’s new Invictus Games.

Peter Angell, chief operating officer of sports marketing agency IEC in Sports and head of Lagardère Unlimited’s dedicated Production Hub, made his name as the broadcast mastermind behind the FIFA World Cup. He tells us about his most memorable career moments and where the future opportunities lie for the company.

Once the English Premier League’s best-paid executive, former Manchester United and Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon is now looking to mine value from rugby union. He talks to Kevin Roberts about the opportunities in both footballing codes.

Rally enthusiast Richard Bevan, the League Managers Association (LMA) CEO and former CEO of the English Professional Cricketers Association (PCA), was appointed chairman of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) late last year. He talks us through his sports industry career highs and lows.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation, in a bid to protect its events.

Swedish football club Ostersund has agreed a major investment deal with the Libyan government which it claims is the biggest such agreement in the country’s history.

The world’s best postgraduate sports course will be announced exclusively at the inaugural WISE (Work In Sports Exhibition) in Switzerland next year.

SportBusiness International's Postgraduate Sports Course Rankings are the only guide to university-level courses in the business of sport.

Qatar's Aspire Academy has joined forces with a roster of partners including IMG, the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee - organisers of the Fifa World Cup in the country – Georgetown University and SportBusiness International to launch the Joosor Institute, a centre of excellence designed to give world-class education and training facilities to sports professionals in the Middle East region.

DFL (German Football League) CEO Christian Seifert tells Kevin Roberts how a combination of world-class performance, sold-out stadia and financial stability has helped make the Bundesliga a European football powerhouse.

In part 1 of this article we looked at how to cast the net wide enough to attract new talent to your sports role. Here we look at step 2: how to whittle down your excellent shortlist to a final candidate who has the skills, experience, attitude and cultural fit to be a great hire.

After 12 years at the head of the Olympic Family, Jacques Rogge reaches the end of his term. In an exclusive interview with SportBusiness, the Belgian reveals the highs and lows of his time as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president and explains what he believes are the future challenges for his successor.

Most organisations spend time thinking about retaining top talent. But less attention is given to attracting good people in the first place. Here we look at a systematic approach to attracting staff from a wider gene pool.

It was with a deep sense of shock and sadness that we received news from FIBA Europe of the sudden and untimely death of its president Olafur Rafnsson. The loss of his remarkable energy, intellect and vision will be felt very deeply by the organisation and by all those in sport who share a passion for its future.