Industry Moves

Stephen van Rooyen has announced he is to leave Sky, the pay-television giant where he is group chief commercial officer and chief executive of the UK and Ireland business, at the end of next month

Iris Sport Media, the company set up by Ioris Francini and his former IMG colleagues Floris Weisz and Luca Baldanza, has recruited Graham Wallace as chief corporate and financial officer

Roger Lodewick, president of sports games at esports’ ESL FACEIT Group and previously of Team Marketing, has been recruited by Viaplay to lead its operations in the Netherlands.

DAZN has recruited Walker Jacobs from Twitch to the newly created position of global chief revenue officer and president of DAZN’s US operation.

Marie Donoghue, who played an integral role in growing Amazon's sports rights portfolio in the United States, is to leave the online retail giant

The PGA Tour has begun the search for a senior media rights executive with experience across the Asia-Pacific region, following a decision taken at the start of the year to manage the sale of its international media rights in-house.

Russell Wolff, who recently left ESPN after 26 years with the Disney-owned sports broadcaster, is joining global investment firm Sixth Street

The German Football Association (DFB) has promoted its senior marketing and sales executive Holger Blask to the role of chief executive

The Football Association has appointed digital media executive James Gray as its new commercial director to replace Navin Singh who will soon take up a leading role with Six Nations Rugby

The IMG agency has appointed Luke Organ as senior vice-president of global partnerships for its media business.

South African public-service broadcaster, the SABC, has appointed Nomsa Chabeli as its new group chief executive

Major League Baseball has hired Josh Clark as senior vice-president of content distribution as the league and its broadcast department wades through the ongoing regional sports network (RSN) turmoil

Experienced broadcast executive Laurent Prud’homme is leaving his role as chief executive of L’Équipe to become chief executive of Olympique Lyonnais under the John Textor era.

Mediapro, the Spain-based sports rights and broadcast production group, has announced today (Friday) that founding member Jaume Roures will leave the company after almost 30 years.

Spring Media, the Sweden-based international sports media agency, has announced the integration of recent acquisitions Athletic Sports Group (ASG) and Hogmore under the Spring Media brand, while Hans Svelander has been appointed as the company’s chief commercial officer.

UK-based sports production company Sunset+Vine has appointed Peter Angell as chief executive.