Dielen started his career as an Associate Analyst for a Belgian company called SWIFT, where he was responsible for Asset support for clients in London, New York, Paris and Luxembourg. He was appointed as FITA Executive Director in 1996. His responsibilities included daily management of FITA, including the coordination of FITA Championships and the archery event at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympic Games, as well as the preparation of the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games.

After gaining valuable experience with the archery governing body, Tom Dielen decided to move his career in a new direction. In 2002, he joined the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as Director, European Regional Office. For over three years, Tom endorsed many responsibilities with the highest impact on anti-doping. He was notably the Liaison with the International Federations, the IOC, the NOCs in Europe, the OCOGs and other multisport organisations, Member of the World Anti-Doping Code Project team (2002-2003), Member of the ADAMS Project Team (2003 – 2004), Representative of WADA at the General Assemblies of ASOIF, GAISF, AIOWF, ARISF, EOC and responsible for the Management of the European Regional office.

In 2005, Dielen returned to his first love, Archery, and was appointed as World Archery Secretary General and Executive Director, his current position. He was given the challenging task of managing a federation and sport that is gaining popularity worldwide.

Since 1989, as former archer and instructor, he has taken on key administration roles, actively participating in the development of archery, notably by organising many indoor and outdoor archery tournaments in Belgium and Switzerland. He was President of the Organising Committee of Louvain-La-Neuve for the World University Archery Games (1989-1993), Administration and Finance director for the European Indoor Archery Championships (1994-1996), Chairman of the Technical Commission for Archery for FISU (1997-2000), Member and chairman of the Swiss Archery Federation Sports commission (since 2002). He is also member of the Swiss Association of Sports Managers (ASMS) and member of the board at the Swiss Association of Archery. Tom Dielen was also elected as member of the Executive Committee of the World Games in 2006. He is member of the Panathlon Club Lausanne.

Church-Sanders sold her consulting company ArkSports to SportBusiness Group PLC in January 2007, including the company’s successful brands Sport and Technology (the online publication of which she was editor) and Sport and Technology: The Conference.

Church-Sanders is the author of several widely-acclaimed business reports including Sport on the internet (2000), The Global Business of Sports Television (2003), Bidding and Hosting: The Guide to Successful Sporting Events (2003), The Global Business of Poker (four editions 2006 to 2012), Ultimate Sports Cities: Strategies for Successful Event Hosting (four editions 2006 to 2012), Bingo in the Digital Age (2009), Ultimate Sports Websites: Creating a Winning Online Proposition for Sport (2009 and 2010), The Global Business of Skill Gaming (2010), The Global Business of Online Casinos (2010), Online Sports Betting: Strategy and Outlook (2011), Social Gaming (2011) and Digital Strategies for Sport 2011-12 (2012).

A regular conference chair and speaker who has often appeared on radio and television, Church- Sanders is the previous editor of both the European Sponsorship Newsletter and PACT Magazine for the Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television. As well as a previous Financial Times newsletter editor, she was previously Head of Reports at FT Media & Telecoms.

Church-Sanders has a BA Honours degree from Queen’s University Belfast and an Mphil from Exeter University. She is a season ticket holder and committee member at Exeter City Football Club and the former chairman of Bromley Common Football Club.

Phil has a wealth of experience in the sports sector having begun his career as a professional footballer playing for Liverpool and Wigan Athletic. He is an all round sports fan and in his current role at Avid he works with clients such as Barcelona, Chelsea, Olmpique de Marseille and the GAA allowing him to combine his love of sports with his industry knowledge. His passion for sport is so strong that even on match days he can be found kicking every ball in a vain attempt to help Liverpool win a long overdue League title!

Brian is the primary Contract director for Visions Olympics coverage and is in senior management control of NEP Group’s fly-pack operations for international clients dealing with all the major sporting events in the world as well as real ‘hands-on’ experience gained on the ground from countries as far afield as Doha to Morocco. This also includes Fox Sports in Afghanistan; Tech Manager for various live music events; Contracts Director for IMGs coverage of the recent Snooker coverage and Valencia America’s Cup Event. He also has a specific role looking after the US based clients such as ESPN’s coverage at Wimbledon. Other clients include NBA, NHL Live Nation and SKY.

His thirst for new technology moved him on to the role of Technology Development Engineer in 2005. He worked closely with ITV evolving tapeless technologies and touchscreen presence in collaboration with companies such as EVS and Red Bee. This relationship with ITV was extended in 2007 and James was appointed ITV’s Account Manager, then adding Sky and IMG whilst maintaining a keen understanding of the industry Unit Managing events such as Red Bull XFighters. In 2008 this commitment led to James being made a Director of 021 and then moving over with the sale to SIS LIVE where he continued his role managing key accounts. In 2011 he took on the role of Sales Director, overseeing the OB’s commercial transformation in these changing times and ensuring clients get maximum value from their budgets.

Central to Phil’s role is identifying and delivering new opportunities and maintaining and developing relationships with our key customers in all sectors that SIS LIVE operate. Phil is also responsible for setting strategic policy and providing commercial leadership across SIS LIVE.

Phil has 20 years experience in various commercial roles across a number of diverse industries including previous roles at Pepsico and in smaller start-up companies. He has worked in the broadcast industry for nearly 15 years and previous responsibilities include the management of sales, marketing and key account management teams across BBC Resources Ltd. He has extensive knowledge of the broadcast facilities industry and the commercial environment in which it operates.

Most recently Phil has been instrumental in creating and establishing our joint venture with Peel Media to operate the primary broadcast facility at MediaCityUK in Salford which includes 7 HD studios and a wide range of Post and Content services.