Jean Marais Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

ATP Media is a fully integrated production, distribution and sales company; and the broadcast and media arm of the ATP Tour.Part of the Senior Management team to support the CCO across all verticals of ATP Media's business to shape the commercial strategy, drive revenues, set department KPIs, create strategy reports for the Board/Shareholders and deliver best-in-class innovations.Responsible for maintaining a constant pipeline of opportunities and projects to optimise current revenue streams across B2C and B2B activities (DTC, media rights sales, documentary licensing, gamification, AR/VR, virtual advertising and graphics sponsorship, digital content monetisation, productising data-enhanced content etc.).Collaborating across departments and with internal and external stakeholders, e.g. Live and Non-live production, Broadcaster Services, Tournament Services, Social Media, Data & Insights, TennisTV, ATP Tour, TDI, Tournament Directors, external consultancies etc.

London, United Kingdom

A broad business development remit which includes establishing strategic partnerships to enable ESPN's international growth in EMEA (e.g. through brand-licensing, bespoke content production, content licensing etc.) and setting the sports content strategy to grow TWDC's various sports channels, platforms and businesses in the region (including acquiring rights for the various Pay-TV channels, SVoD platforms and the in-house media distribution agency). Previously also managed the content sales team and the ESPN Solutions business (advisory services/consultancy business).

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for ESPN EMEA’s rights acquisitions and strategy, including both ESPN’s media distribution business and the DTC service ESPN Player.

Singapore

Following the merger of World Sport Group, SportFive and IEC in Sports under the Lagardere banner a new media rights sales team was established for the APAC-MEA region. My role was to manage sales campaigns across the region for a very diverse portfolio (including broadcast rights of AFC, CAF, Roland Garros, WTA Premier, IAAF, FINA and various others) and to identify and develop new revenue generating opportunities.

Hong Kong

Responsible for APAC-MEA team of sales directors based in our offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Dubai. Setting and achieving sales targets, selling media rights to our broadcasters and developing concepts & events for the sports broadcasting industry.

Dubai

Acquiring and selling the media rights to international sporting events to all broadcasters in the Indian Sub-continent, Middle East and Africa.

Dubai

Researching and developing new relationships with all broadcasters operating in Africa and the Middle East, as well as with in-flight entertainment providers worldwide. Providing administrative support to maintain existing client contracts.

Dubai

London & Dubai

Cape Town