Gareth Smart Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

skateboard GB is the National Governing Body for skateboarding in England and the home of Olympic skateboarding in Great Britain.The organisation exists to give skateboarders the opportunity to “Skate More, Skate Better" ensuring they are skater-focused in everything that they do; aiming to lead, support, empower and facilitate.Skateboard GB celebrate and.

London

Flowhaven licensing Software is an end-to-end SaaS licensing platform supercharged with Salesforce that seamlessly manages licensor/ licensee profiles across every touch point (commercial sales management, content sharing approvals, design, brand marketing approvals, royalty forecasting reporting and account management) and is now trusted by some of the.

United Kingdom

Exclusive Music partnership with Universal Music with a direct GenZ brand focus under the brand ‘Music Galaxy Thursday’ with international artist Young Blood delivering c.$12M brand value Sponsorship and Product placement with international music artist Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u, delivering a total of 416M views across her Youtube channel Product Placement.

London, United Kingdom

• I was responsible for driving and implementing a fully-funded global expansion plan across new digital media channels and regional expansion to support group revenue growth.Highlights from my role include:
• Delivered first distribution deal with MultiChoice/DSTV for Africa valued at $1M across 52 countries
• Directly responsible for completion of Global TV1000 Russian Kino SVOD App for web, iOS and android, supported by internal workflow processes and backend integration
• Headed Asia expansion plan including channel and agent acquisition (Singapore-based) with value of $12M and breakeven within year 3 of 5-year plan

London, United Kingdom

• I was responsible for developing and executing clear partner and content acquisitions across the film/TV and sports media category throughout Europe, managing deliverables, content rights availability and content owner.
• Delivered 750K monthly active KICK users off 2.4M download number (2015)
• Successfully completed sale of KICK app to Perform Media, securing 35% savings on 2016 running costs
• Delivered ~£300K investment into advertising Samsung products vs licensing content feeds
• Negotiated and delivered core sponsorship deal with estimated media value of £4.2M across launch of 2015 Pro Evolution soccer league (PES) mobile game for Europe and exclusive Samsung football app

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for annual digital media and licensee negotiations, all sale activities, budgeting, forecasting and full P&L responsibility within Sony’s Licensee Group, as well as commercial strategy, business development, retail channel initiatives and 3-year business plan to exceed budget.

• Responsible for developing additional sales channels through strategic retail initiatives with cross regional retailers as well as managing licensee relationships, contract negotiations, budgeting and forecasting for.
• Overall sales responsibility for worldwide licensing group developing new contracts and managing accounts with direct distributors and 3rd parties.

• Responsible for all budgeting, forecasting and P&L (+ £15m) Universal Pictures and Columbia Tri-Star Alliance (UCA) across all new digital formats including retail, online and new business development
• Created first branded digital USB movie flash drives for HMV and Gamestation in the UK

• Full autonomous management of £18m UCA titles across key high street specialists and non-traditional accounts including GAME Group, Morrison’s, Waitrose, M&S and Matalan.
• Grew Gamestation from £500k to £4m GP 2007– 2009 focusing on multiplatform approach

• Awarded Highest Achievement Award by CEO of Bidvest Group for obtaining over £1m in new business in one fiscal year.