Who we are
Director
Robert trained at one of the world's largest law-firms, Linklaters and qualified and practised there as a litigator for 4 years. He joined the British Olympic Association as its head of legal through the Sydney Olympic cycle and the early days of the London 2012 bid. Robert then became a partner at the international law firm Farrer & Co., where he headed the firm's commercial sports group (ranked no.1 in the UK for 5 consecutive years for its sponsorship work) advising sports rights holders and international federations. Robert became global director of the Laureus Sport for Good foundation before establishing The Sports Consultancy with Angus in 2006. Robert leads our rights holder bidding team and our commercial legal team consulting to international federations and major sports event clients. Robert's recent work includes advising the Volvo Ocean Race, the America's Cup, the International Equestrian Federation and the International Sailing Federation. When Robert's not running bids for major federations, he's out running the streets of north London, clocking up the middle distance training miles to scrape a few 10ths off his 800m time for the GB masters team.
Director
Angus is a lawyer by training specialising in multi-jurisdiction litigation at a major city of London law firm. However, Angus's passion has always been sport and his career started out at the sharp end of sport as a professional sportsman. He was the youngest crew member on Sir Peter Blake and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston's world record breaking non-stop circumnavigation of the world in 1994. Angus now heads up our brand and rights holder consultancy. He established a successful rights holder consultancy in 2000 and is proud to have been advising clients like Volvo since 2002 in the development of their sports events and creating ground-breaking sponsorships such as Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean in the Volvo Ocean Race. Angus has consulted brand and rights holder clients on properties ranging from Formula One to the Olympic Games and now works with our rights holder clients such as FEI, Volvo Ocean Race and ISAF, led the Madrid 2018 Ryder Cup bid and liaises with our brand clients such as AMD.
Senior Consultant
Lucy has been planning and implementing highly successful sponsorship campaigns in a wide range of sports ranging from distance running and football to motorsports for corporate clients such as Flora, Egg and Computacenter since 1993. Lucy is now responsible for our sponsorship consultancy and marketing communications projects, working with clients such as AMD on their sponsorship of Scuderia Ferrari and most recently promoting Madrid's bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup. Lucy is happiest spending her downtime from work and family serving aces on a grass court or mogul bashing in the Alps.
Senior Consultant
Scott is a leading international specialist in the development and activation of brand sponsorships for clients including UBS, BMW and ACE Insurance. Previously a Senior Vice President of Octagon, responsible for sales in the US and he is recognised for establishing and selling his own leading property.
Account Director
Ashley is a qualified lawyer with extensive experience advising clients in the sports and entertainment industries. He assists The Sports Consultancy's clients in relation to commercial legal matters across a number of projects, including event bidding, venue procurement, sponsorship, production and exploitation of media rights. Ashley has previously worked in the sports group at international law firm Bird & Bird as well as within the in-house legal teams of global media and entertainment organisations Modern Times Group (owner of Viasat Broadcasting and Bet24), the Financial Times and HMV Group. Ashley is also a keen water polo player and can be found in his spare time treading water in swimming pools around the country.
Account Executive
Sara has been involved in bidding and organisation of major sport events throughout her professional career including the 2005 World Games in Duisburg, the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and Madrid's 2016 Olympic bid. Most recently Sara has been working on Madrid's bid to host the Ryder Cup in 2018. Sara is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the World Karate Federation since 2003 and as a fluent speaker in four languages and conversational level in another two, she loves travelling and meeting new cultures as well as practicing karate.
Account Executive
Kirsten is a qualified lawyer and trained at a magic circle law firm in London. She gained valuable experience as part of the legal team at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games working on a range of matters including commercial rights agreements and procurement of transport and accommodation for the 2012 Games in London. At The Sports Consultancy, Kirsten assists with and advises on the contracts necessary to stage major events, in particular, supply, sponsorship, management and hosting agreements. In her spare time, Kirsten can often be found on the football pitch making crunching tackles or in the park playing a spot of touch rugby.
Senior Consultant
Ashton was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1991. After spending several years in private practice for New Zealand's pre-eminent law firm, Russell McVeagh, followed by a stint as Corporate Solicitor for New Zealand's largest local authority, Auckland City (where he was involved in the redevelopment of Auckland Harbour to host the 30th America's Cup), Ashton headed overseas in 1998. Since then he has acted in various legal, commercial and event roles for international sports agencies, federations, rights holders and brands (including ATP, ITF, FINA, IAAF, IIHF, NHL, FEI and the America's Cup). He has also headed the legal team managing the international rights for the World's most successful game-show format "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". Ashton's broad experience allows him to comfortably operate in both legal and commercial roles.