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Our team offers a wealth of expertise in strategy, performance, business, and technology to help your organization accelerate transformation.
Mike Forde has worked in elite sport since 1998, including six years as a director at Chelsea Football Club, and is a trusted advisor on organizational and human capital performance. Mike Founded Sportsology Group in 2014 and is based out of New York and London, providing strategic advisory and operational excellence support to sports franchise owners, federations/leagues and institutional capital across US and Europe.
Joel is an experienced management consultant, who specializes in architecting new business models and helping transform organizations as they respond to complex demands. With a 'Big 4' Advisory background at Deloitte and Accenture, Joel has worked intensively with major European Football clubs, NBA, and NHL franchises, as well as Institutional Investors. He heads Global Advisory Services for Sportsology Group from our London office.
Based in New York, Luke currently serves as the Head of US Advisory in Strategy and Value Creation. Luke is responsible for providing strategic guidance to COO and CFO leaders to create value for professional sports teams, leagues, and Multi-Asset ownership groups. Luke Previously worked at EY-Parthenon as the Director of Private Equity - Strategy and Value Creation where he played a key role in advising PE firms on their investment strategies and driving value-creation initiatives. His dedicated, collaborative working style allows him to build trust and rapport with teams to reach results quickly.
Patrick leads the Executive Search division at Sportsology Group where he works closely with Ownership and Senior Leadership on supporting their human capital needs. Based in New York, Patrick provides strategic support on organizational design, talent identification, and talent onboarding where he has worked across European Soccer, NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLS.
Chris has an extensive background in sports business, having previously spent eight years working across the sports analytics and technology sectors. Chris joined Sportsology Group in 2020 as Director of Research before establishing the company’s M&A business. Through his role Chris works closely with sophisticated investors and major clubs across European football, leading sporting due diligence services for investor groups and delivering sell-side support services for team owners. Chris is based in the London office.
Jim has more than a decade of experience serving as Operating Partner and Advisor at both Silver Lake and General Atlantic, aiding diligence, investment decisioning, and company value creation for consumer marketplaces, technology-enabled services businesses and media-centric enterprises. In this role, he paired with Board of Directors and Executive Management teams to build brands, scale audiences, bolster customer economics and strengthen Sales, Marketing and Product efficacy.
A successful executive coach, business leader, speaker and broadcaster, René Carayol is also a visiting professor at Cass Business School and has written a book, SPIKE, on strengths-based leadership. A specialist on issues of diversity and inclusion in business, René is a dynamic strategist who helps organizations transform statements of intent into meaningful action.
Professor of Media Management at Bournemouth University, John Oliver is an experience academic specializing in media, communications, scenario planning and transgenerational cultural transmission. During his career John has advised the UK government on media policy, as well as advising Middle East government agencies on operational structures and strategic communications.
A research associate with the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, Michael specializes in the analysis of large datasets using a range of advanced statistical methods. Michael is also experienced in data visualization and the use of machine learning techniques to recognize patterns within data and forecast possible outcomes.
The current Director of the M&A Research Centre at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), Scott also teaches Mergers & Acquisitions in the MBA and MSc programs and has taught ‘Business Intelligence and Social Networking’ in the MBA program and ‘Corporate Finance’ in the executive education programs. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Imperial College (London) and Oxford University and has been an accredited executive coach. His latest book - The Deal Paradox - explores the relationship between humans and machines in the M&A process.
Rob has been with Sheffield Hallam University since 2002, initially teaching financial reporting, management accounting and economic decision-making in sports. He has held various leadership roles across the university's key portfolios, including Head of Department in the Sheffield Business School. Rob is an expert in finance and economics of sports with almost 100 career outputs and regularly appears in national and international media. He also contributes to policy debate, advises venture capital groups, and is a Director for Sheffield Wednesday Football Club's Community Programme. Rob is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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