CHAIRS, SPEAKERS and
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
CRISTIANO CARLUTTI
(confirmed) - Mr.
Carlutti is presently employed as Flagship Development Manager in
Fiat Group Automobiles, where he is in charge of the creation of the
international distribution network owned by the company: his
responsibilities range from business and financial planning to real
estate investments and constructions, to the coordination of human
resources activities and IT projects in 10 different countries.
He has a 10 years successful experience in the
start-up and creation of new companies and
department: his previous professional experience
spans from the construction business to the
automotive, and all the way to Sports. As Press
Operations Managing Director for the 2006 Winter
Olympic and Paralympic Games in Torino, he has been
responsible for the planning, coordination and
management of all facilities and services dedicated
to Media, and was responsible for the recruitment
and management of 215 international professionals
and 733 volunteers. In addition to the Winter
Olympic Games, Cristiano Carlutti has been involved
in the organization of 20 international sport
events.
Mr. Carlutti holds a degree from the Università
Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" in Milan.
JUAN
DE DIOS CRESPO PEREZ (confirmed) - Lawyer based in
Valencia, Spain, registered at the Bar since 1985, specializes in
Sports Law. His work focuses on legal consultancy to the
Spanish National Football League, several Spanish and worldwide
football clubs, footballers and agents, as well as to associations
and clubs of badminton, cycling, track and field, bowling, hockey,
tennis, swimming and motor sports.
Mr. Crespo Perez
is a professor in the CIES-FIFA Master Program, as well as a
lecturer in several Spanish and International Master programs,
Seminars and Conferences on Sports Law. He has published on
Sports Law in Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Argentinean and Brazilian
Sports Reviews and has been a contributor to two books on
Sports Law. He is currently one of the most active lawyers before
the TAS-CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) as well as the
President of the Valencia Bar Sports Law Section.
Dr.
LISA DELPY NEIROTTI
(confirmed)
- Dr. Neirotti is
Associate Professor, Department of Tourism and Hospitality
Management, School of Business, The George Washington University.
She is the Director of the MBA in Tourism, Hospitality, Event and
Sport Management. Dr. Neirotti is also involved in developing and
offering professional certificate courses in management and
marketing related to events, sports, and tourism.
Dr. Delpy Neirotti
received her undergraduate degree from California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo; she also holds a MS in Sport Management
from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and a PhD in Sport
Administration from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
In addition to her responsibilities at the university, Dr. Delpy
Neirotti works with a number of sport event organizers and
professional teams to conduct economic, spectator, and market
research studies including the Olympic Games, Pacific Life Tennis
Open, Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Marine Corp Marathon, Rock and Roll
Marathon, Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Race, Army Ten Miler, Washington
Wizards, Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals, and Washington
Redskins. Dr. Delpy Neirotti is also a pioneer in the field of
sports tourism and founded the annual TEAMS: Travel, Events, and
Management in Sports conference. Furthermore, Dr. Delpy Neirotti
co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management and
Marketing and serves on the editorial board of SportsTravel
magazine. She also is a member of the Women’s Sport Foundation (WSF)
advisory board and is President of the DC Chapter of Women In Sports
and Events (WISE).
Dr.
COSMIN DOBRIN (confirmed) - Dr. Dobrin
is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Management within the University
of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania. He is a graduate in
Finance, Banking and Stock Market
Operations from the ASE University and a has a
doctorate
in Industrial Engineering
from
the
Politechnics
University
in
Bucharest. He has participated in several post
graduate/doctoral
courses
and
research
at
the
University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain,
the
National Institute of Public Administration, Madrid,
Spain and
the
University Paris 12,
France.
He is a co-author
of several books as well as author of published scientific papers
presented at national and international symposia.
AYKUT
FERAH
(confirmed)
- Mr.
Ferah is
the General Manager of Red Bull Turkey and has served in this
position since 2004. He
graduated
from the Vienna University's
Economy Department in 1998
and is a member of several prestigious organizations, including but
not limited to,
TÜGİDER-
All Food Foreign Trade Association,
DEIK-
Foreign Economic Relations Board, Turkish-Austria
Council,
YASED-International
Investors Association,
ATIS-
Austrian
Turkish Businessmen and Industry Association,
and serves as
a
RİZESPOR Footbal
Club Board Member
in
charge with
the
Press.
CARSTEN
FLORSTEDT, Dipl. Kfm.
(confirmed) -
Mr. Florstedt is CEO of
Datenverarbeitungs & Computervertriebs
GmbH. With more than 20 years experience in various
IT areas, he specializes in complex onsite
integration as well as web site administration.
With US SportsLink Inc. he had organized soccer
tours such as the "German Bundesliga Meets Major
League Soccer” and additional events around the
World Cup 2006. His current focus is on IT subjects
like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Online
Marketing & Market Research and individual Video
Analysis and Development of Athletes.
VADA MANAGER
(confirmed) -
Mr. Manager currently serves as director of global issues management
for NIKE Inc. -- a hybrid role of in-house business consultant and
strategic communications advisor and for the global company.
Throughout his ten-year tenure at NIKE, Mr. Manager has served as a
senior strategist, advisor to senior management and project manager
in multiple areas of the company. He is a member of the Corporate
Leadership Team – among the top 300 leaders within NIKE’s $16
billion sports company.
In his work for both the private and governmental
sectors, Mr. Manager has traveled extensively
internationally. Before joining NIKE in April 1997, he
served in a very similar capacity at Levi Strauss &
Co.'s Global Headquarters in San Francisco and also as a
Vice President of the prominent Washington, DC based
public affairs firm -- Powell Tate (now Powell Tate
Weber Shandwick). Manager has an extensive background in
corporate, government and professional sports policy and
communications. His past professional affiliations
and/or institutional clients include: Secretary of the
Interior and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt,
Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly
(Washington, D.C.); British Council/London School of
Economics (LSE); Major League Baseball and the PGA Tour.
In the finance world, he briefly served as a Vice
President of Finance at Young Smith & Peacock – a
Phoenix-based NYSE brokerage where he served on teams
that structured multi-million dollar bond projects.
In his work he has been interviewed by various
publications: CNN, NBC’s Today Show, Fox Sports Last
Word with Jim Rome and BBC TV The Economist, Newsweek,
Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sydney
Morning Herald and many others. Manager is a political
science graduate of Arizona State University (Tempe,
Arizona) and is a Nov. 2000 inductee in its Hall of Fame
(College of Liberal Arts). He also performed graduate
level study at the UK’s LSE. Manager is also a member of
several national and global organizations including: the
Issue Management Council (Chairman 2007-08); American
Council on Germany; the U.S. Military Academy (West
Point) Civilian Public Affairs Committee (Chairman
2008). In 2000, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s Sports
Task Force named Manager as its “Sports Executive of the
Year”.
DMITRY
MOSIN, MA -
Mr.
Mosin is the Sochi 2014 Bid Committee's Director of Strategic
Planning. Since 2003 he has worked as a marketing manager of
the major national car dealer ROLF, prior to which he was employed
by AYAXI, an e-business solutions and internet incubator, as
director of strategic planning. Mr. Mosin has previously
worked at Coca-Cola in Russia as a channel marketing manager and as
a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Economic Relations in the
Nizhny Novgorod regional administration. With a degree in
linguistics, Dmitry also earned a Master of Arts degree in economics
from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. From
2004 to 2005, Mr. Mosin had consulted on strategic planning for the
Moscow 2012 Bid Committee.
ANGELO PARIS
(confirmed)
- Mr.
Paris is Managing Director of the Expo 2015 Planning Committee.
Starting in 2003, he worked as head of strategic planning for the
Torino Winter Olympics, subsequently becoming Vice General Manager
of Toroc, the foundation which organized the 2006 Torino games.
Mr. Paris has a broad experience in strategy definition and
execution, implementation of sound operations and financial
performance improvement programs and in the coordination of programs
involving an high number of people and complexity.
JAYNE PEARCE
- Ms. Pearce heads Pearce International and is a veteran
of five Olympic Games, five Football World Cups (men's and women's)
and every level of track and field. She has been Media Director of
two International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World
Championships in Athletics and one IAAF World Indoor Championships.
She has worked as a media consultant to the International Olympic
Committee (IOC), a Media Officer for Federation Internationale de
Football Association (FIFA) and Press Director of the IAAF and
recently advised the London bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games. Jayne Pearce has been involved in the organisation of over
50 major international events thus far in her career.
Dr.
ION POPA
(confirmed)
- Dr. Popa
is
Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Management,
University of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest,
Romania.
He is also a trainer,
an international marketing and
management
consultant for the SC Manager Group SRL. Dr. Popa holds
a
doctorate
in
Economics, with a specialization in
management
from the Univeristy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania and a
Master degree
in Public
Administration and Management from the same university.
Dr. Popa’s additional training also include training
stages in public administration and management at University Roma
II, Italy, Porto University, Portugal, SME’s area at d’Artois
University, Aras, France, Universities in Seoul, South Korea and
Beijing, China, Berlin, Bonn and Karlshrue, Germany, University
Paris XII Valle De Marne, Paris, France and at universities in from
Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka in Japan.
He is also an author and co-author of several research papers in
management as
well as an award winner of research grants in the field of
management.
Dr.
EMILIO POZZI
(confirmed)
-
With over 15 years of
experience running large-scale international events, Dr. Pozzi has a
proven record of success in Event Operations. His professional
career covers prestigious positions with the Organizing Committee's
of the 1990, 1994, and 1999 FIFA World Cups to the Olympic Games of
Atlanta, Salt Lake, Athens, and Torino. As Managing Director of
Venue Management for the 2006 Winter Olympic and
Paralympic Games in Torino, Mr. Pozzi was in charge of all competition and
non-competition venue planning and operations, including the three
Olympic Athlete Villages. Also under his direction were the
Food and Beverage operations, as well as, waste management and
cleaning operations. The sport of passion for this Italian is
soccer. As Executive Vice President for the 1999 Women's World
Cup, Mr. Pozzi had a major role in record ticket sales for a women's
sporting event, with the final game attracting 110,000 people to the
Rose Bowl in Los Angeles. Since 2001, he has served as
Vice-President of International Sports Events, Inc. that specializes
in the management of a variety of sporting events, and organizes
consulting seminars around the globe.
JORGE RAMOS
(confirmed)
- Mr. Ramos is known as “el relator de America” – the commentator of
the Americas – and is synonymous with soccer for millions of fans in
the U.S. The renowned Spanish-language sportscaster is the
ESPN Deportes Radio's lead voice of the soccer lineup. With his
trademark combination of enthusiasm and knowledge, Ramos brings out
the game’s finer points and punctuates them with his unique sense of
humor on his weekday show, “Jorge Ramos y 10 Mas.” A native of
Uruguay, Ramos started out in the US as a writer and editor for
Chicago-based “La Raza,” a top Spanish-language newspaper. Before
joining ESPN, he and Hernan Pereyra co-hosted Univision Radio’s
national program “Locura por el Futbol.”
Dr.
JULIAN STANCULESCU
(confirmed)
- Dr. Stanculescu brings more than 25 years
experience in the organization of global events, including the
Winter and Summer Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, Continental
Confederation competitions, and many national competitions for
different sports. His direct involvement at the Olympic and FIFA
World Cup event levels, provided him with an intimate knowledge of
the infra and the superstructure of international and national
sports' governing entities and their events. Dr. Stanculescu
holds a doctorate degree from the Academy of Economic Studies in
Bucharest, Romania and a Masters in the Science of Management.
Having lived in several countries across the world and speaking
eight languages, Dr. Stanculescu brings forth a vast expertise in
international relations as well as cross cultural communications.
NORMAN
WAIN, Esq.
(confirmed)
- Mr. Wain is presently employed as Vice President –
Corporate Legal Affairs, Assistant General Counsel at The Finish
Line, Inc. (Finish Line), a U.S. publicly traded, billion dollar
athletic footwear and apparel retailer, which is known for its broad
selection of footwear, apparel and accessories. Mr. Wain has been a
licensed attorney in California for eleven years, specializing in
corporate transactional and sports and entertainment law. He spent
the last eight years negotiating, drafting and reviewing all
corporate contracts and policies, reviewing all marketing, ad
approvals, contests, sweepstakes and promotional materials,
providing HR with guidance on general employment issues and
monitoring outside counsel in any litigation proceedings. Prior to
joining Finish Line, Mr. Wain worked in the Business & Legal Affairs
Department at Writers & Artists Agency, Inc., a Los Angeles based
talent agency (subsequently purchased by Paradigm), as well as
in-house at BigShot Films International, and he spent some time with
Major League Soccer (MLS) during its inaugural season.