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Danny Jordaan
CEO
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™
Danny Jordaan is a man with a variety of interests. He has been a Senior Lecturer at a tertiary institution, politician, sportsman, sports administrator, businessman and a political activist in the struggle against apartheid. He was also an avid sportsperson participating in various sports, including soccer, cricket and hockey. |
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Xavier Gonzalez
Chief Executive Officer
International Paralympic Committee
Nationality: Spanish
Date and Place of Birth: 09 August 1959; Barcelona, Spain
Professional Career
- CEO, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Germany (May 2004-)
- Interim COO/Paralympic Games Liaison Director, IPC, Germany (2002 – 2004)
- Managing Director of Paralympics, Salt Lake Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 (SLOC), USA (2000-2002)
- General Manager Sport and Games Operations – Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee (SPOC), Australia (1997-2000)
- Vice President of Sports/Deputy Chief Games Operations Officer - Atlanta Paralympic Organising Committee (APOC), USA (1993-1996)
- Deputy Director of Sports/Main Operations Area Director – Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee (COOB´92), Spain (1990-1992) Awards
- Paralympic Order (2003)
- Silver Paralympic Order by ICC (International Co-ordination Committee of World Sports Organisations for the Disabled) (1992)
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Economics and a Minor in Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Bellaterra)
Languages
- Fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English. French (conversational level)
Hobbies
- Sports in general (especially Football & Swimming), cooking and collecting wine
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Patrick Furlong
PTFI Media
Patrick Furlong has more than 40 years of broadcast experience, focussing almost exclusively on sport since 1992. In 1996, after a 28 year career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he moved to Malaysia to work for the ABU, as Head of Sport, and has worked exclusively in Asia ever since. Whilst with the ABU he was also the ABU’s Head of Production Operations for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
PTFI Media was formed in 2002, after Patrick had finished his contract with HBS as COO for the Host Broadcast of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. As PTFI Media, Patrick was broadcast consultant to the Organizing Committees for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Moroccan bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In that time he also worked on the Master Plan for the 2006 Asian Games. In 2004 he was appointed as Director Broadcast and Media Services for the Doha Asian Games, and is recognised as the driving force behind the hugely successful Host Broadcast coverage and Media Services delivery of those Games.
In October of this year he completed a three year consultancy for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, and recently helped the Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Committee formulate the broadcasting component of its Bid Document.
Since 2007, PTFI Media has also provided consultancy services to the Olympic Council of Asia the Organizing Committees for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the 2010 Asian Beach Games in Muscat and the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Almaty and Astana. |
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Nigel Rushman
Founder
Rushmans Ltd
Nigel's experience spans 25 years in major international sports and events. He has developed and implemented innovative programmes for over 500 events in 30 countries including Asian Games, Euro ’96, three Rugby World Cups and three Cricket World Cups amongst numerous other projects.
Nigel is a well-known figure in the international business of sport. A founding partner of industry publication SportBusiness International, Nigel prides himself on his hands-on experience of successful event delivery.
Frequently invited at a senior level to present his experience and thoughts referring to event management, scalability, temporary facilities, security, knowledge and experience transfer to International Sports Conferences and gatherings of the IOC, FIFA, GAISF and others.
In addition to his role as Chairman of Rushmans and being hands-on with all Rushmans projects and clients, Nigel was contracted as Event Director of the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 with the responsibility of implementing the Event Management, Security, Media Management, Accreditation and Volunteer Programmes for the Cricket World Cup across the nine participating countries in the Caribbean region. |
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Greg Bowman
Managing and Creative Director
Great Big Events
Greg Bowman is recognised by the international sporting community as a leader in Sport Presentation. He led the Sport Presentation team for the Beijing Olympic Games, adding the 2008 Olympic instalment to his experience at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Recognising his position as the pioneer in the field of Sport Presentation, Greg’s unique approach and talents have been called upon by international sporting federations and organising committees for many of the world’s most important sporting events. Drawing on his unique combination of talents in music, education and sport, Greg Bowman founded Great Big Events, and coined the term ‘Sport Presentation’ for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, pioneering the industry into an integral component of all international sporting events. In the current international sporting landscape, the scope, expertise and quality produced under the leadership of Greg Bowman is truly unrivalled. |
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Kevin Roberts
Editorial Director
SportBusiness
Kevin Roberts was the launch editor of Sport Business International in 1996. Since then he has overseen the development of the monthly magazine and Sportbusiness.com, the world’s leading on-line source of information about the business of sport.
Roberts was previously a director of Plus Public Relations Ltd and cut his teeth in the business of sport in the early 1990s. As deputy director for communications at CPMA group, he was responsible for media management at the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and the World Student Games among other projects. He has chaired and spoken at numerous international conferences including the International Olympic Committee’s Conference on Sport and New Media (Lausanne 2000) the General Association of International Sports Federation’s SportAccord (Madrid 2003 and Lausanne 2004), the FT Sports Marketing Conference (London 2003) and the Marketing Magazine Sports Marketing Conference (2004), the Australian Leader in Sport Conference (Perth 2004) and various editions of Sportel in Monaco and Miami. He is a regular media spokesman on sport sector issues, including a weekly spot on CNBC’s Morning Reports, and has written for a range of national and international publications. |