Meet The Mentors

Offering advice, support, a sounding board or even a challenge to current thinking, our internal pool of mentors have been expertly trained by multi award-winning coaching leaders, The Business Coaching Academy (The BCA).

We want our members to learn, grow and develop when they join with us. We also know that many of our members like to ‘give-back’, share and support others. That’s why we have recruited an incredible set of mentors to help coach the next generation of sport leaders.

The PBSL Coaching and Mentoring network is now open.

Nicola Dutton

Partnerships & Stakeholder Management

Nicola is a Chartered accountant with +10 years’ Investment Banking experience and is currently pivoting into the commercial world of sports partnerships. During her time at Goldman Sachs, she held positions managing C-suite hedge fund relationships within Prime Brokerage, advising on internal risks and governance within Internal Audit and sat on numerous internal committees. She combines strategic, operational, and commercial mission with a deep understanding of financial oversight and risk management. She is currently studying Sport Marketing, as well as being an active member of Women in Football and an aspiring NED/trustee.

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Ross Campbell

Executive Director of Oriam

Ross is the current Executive Director of Oriam, Scotland’s Sport Performance Centre and a player/Assistant Manager at Montrose FC.

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Sharon Fuller

Global Head of Central Content Creation – Red Bull

Sharon Fuller is Global Head of Central Content Creation for Red Bull and a former BBC Sport Executive.

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Claire Gatcum

Sponsorship, Brand Partnerships and Marketing Consultant

With over 15 years’ experience in sponsorship, brand marketing and comms, Claire has worked with some amazing people to deliver award-winning campaigns for global brands and global audiences. After becoming a mum herself, Claire is keen to be able to help people looking to keep the momentum in their career, or perhaps return following some time away from it.

Andy Sutherden

Consultant

Andy is an experienced sports marketing & communications consultant, credited for working on award winning campaigns for some of the world’s most famous brands. He is an expert at helping businesses grow by maximising their return on sponsorship and partnership investment.

“Coaching is a privilege. I wish I’d had one! You know that every moment you spend with a PBSL member is with the intent of helping improve personal performance in our industry. Respected industry peers and colleagues entrust you to make them think better… and the unexpected consequence is that it helps you think better, too”

Andy Sutherden

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Matthew Dossett

Deputy Head of Sport – Trinity College Dublin

Matthew has been involved in the sports industry for 20 years, working predominantly in areas of sports development, management, and leadership in the University Sport sector in the UK and Ireland. Specialising in the strategic development of sport, business and operations, and partnerships, Matthew has a strong background in bridging areas of challenge and opportunity, and applying unique thinking to solve issues

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Charlie Cowen

Partner at Portas Consulting

Charlie is a Partner at Portas Consulting, a global strategy consultancy focused on the sport industry, where he leads their commercial work across the UK and Europe in a variety of sports, notably football and cricket. Before entering the sports industry with Portas, he founded, led and operated a number of businesses, including a healthcare data and analytics company as well as leading the Commercial team and New York office of an AI fintech company. Charlie started his career as a strategy and innovation consultant at the Monitor Group where he was an Associate Partner specialising in working with brands across multiple industries to launch concepts, products and ideas.

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Tom Sears

Founder/Chair and Managing Director – Kinsey Sears

The PBSL was founded by Tom Sears who has a wealth of experience holding senior roles in sports bodies internationally and who in 2017 founded the sports executive search specialists Kinsey Sears based in London. Tom’s experience spans over four decades in the sports industry holding senior level positions with National Governing Bodies, provincial associations, professional clubs and publicly funded bodies.

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Hayley Wood

Commercial lead in various sports & entertainment orgs

Hayley has over 15 years experience in commercial roles in the sports and entertainment industries spanning sales, marketing, business development and event management in world leading venues and at global events. Most recently she held the role of Head of Premium Sales at The O2 Arena before moving into consultancy, including working directly for and with The PBSL. Over the course of her career Hayley has built many relationships across the industry, built and managed teams and navigated a number of changing circumstances. She is looking forward to working with members of the PBSL who are looking to build their confidence, improve their skills and navigate their next move.

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Mick Hogan

Sports Consultant

Mick is a Sports Consultant currently working for the Rugby League World Cup 2021, British & Irish Lions, Newcastle Falcons RU and Newcastle Thunder RL. He also sits on the England & Wales Cricket Board’s Host Venue Panel and is Chair of the Newcastle Rugby Foundation.

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TESTIMONIALS

“The sessions were always structured and Mick challenged me in the right way to support my thinking but at the same point was honest and open in some of the feedback which needed to be heard by myself.

I feel very lucky to have made such a connection and mentor as Mick who has really given me understanding of competencies of roles in Sports Organizations which I’ve really needed to understand in more depth, whilst at the same time trusting me with access to his considerable global network of connections.”

Neil Venables who has Mick Hogan as a mentor

Daniel Brown

Chief Data and Digital Officer – PTI Digital

A proven analytical and commercial leader that delivers bottom-line returns, Daniel has worked in transforming Sports and Entertainment companies (Anshutz Entertainment Group, AXS Ticketing) by placing data insights and digital growth at the heart of their vision to deliver commercial, customer engagement and operational strategies.

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Martin Jesper

Specialist In the Sustainable Transformation of Elite Sports Organisations

Martin is one of only a small number of accredited, independent turnaround professionals in the UK – with a rare specialism in driving sustainability and performance improvements in elite sport. He has 25 years’ experience in executive boardroom and leadership roles across a variety of business sectors and sporting organisations as CEO, NED, advisor, mentor and executive coach. Having originally trained as a chartered accountant, Martin offers mentees a wealth of experience in embedding governance effectiveness, operational excellence, performance management and a focus on people-development – built upon a foundation of high performance behaviours.

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