Stephen Saunders Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Group General Manager Event Acquisition and Partnerships. Responsible for content acquisition and commercial revenues across the Venues NSW network (Accor Stadium, CommBank Stadium, Allianz Stadium, Sydney Cricket Ground, McDonald Jones Stadium and WIN Stadium and Entertainment Centre). Key areas include Hospitality, sponsorship, signage, ticketing, merchandise and food and beverage. Other responsibilities include the ownership of key relationships with NSW Government (Destination NSW and Office of Sport) to collaboratively secure content for NSW.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Group General Manger Events and Partnerships Moore Park. Responsible for all event delivery across Allianz Stadium and the SCG including scheduling and liaison with all sports partners, promoters and major international events including responsibility for negotiation, execution and management of all hiring agreements. Additional end to end responsibility for network content acquisition and Moore Park food and beverage, ticketing and merchandise strategy and delivery.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

General Manger of Events and partnerships. Responsible for all event delivery across Allianz Stadium and the SCG including scheduling and liaison with all sports partners, promoters and major international events including the responsibility for negotiation, execution and management of all hiring agreements . Additional end to end responsibility for food and beverage, ticketing and merchandise strategy and delivery.

Sydney, Australia

General Manger of Events. Responsible for all event delivery across Allianz Stadium and the SCG including scheduling and liaison with all sports partners, promoters and major international events . Additional end to end responsibility for food and beverage, ticketing and merchandise strategy and delivery.

Sydney, Australia

Head of TEG Live Sport division. Responsible for full P&L management of over $30m, identification and sourcing of new local and international content, commercial structure and exploitation of the content including sourcing of government funding, sanctioning agreements with major sporting bodies, venue hire, sponsorship, ticket sales, broadcast and digital rights, hospitality, travel, merchandise and signage.

Sydney, Australia

Head of business development across a group of 7 sports and entertainment businesses including Ticketek Australia and New Zealand and Nine Touring and Events. Responsible for the delivery of new business and renewals of existing partnerships. Responsible for the identification and sourcing of new content, and the commercial structure and exploitation of the content including sponsorship, broadcast and digital rights, hospitality, travel, merchandise and signage.

Developed and implemented Vodafone sponsorship strategy with a team of 3 direct reports. Responsible for identification and negotiation of sponsorship opportunities, sponsorship leverage strategy, budget preparation and management. Responsible for driving use of sponsorship assets cross functionally and reporting of activity.

Sponsorship and events manager responsible for activation of TeamVodafone and ARU partnership

London, United Kingdom

Gold Coast

Event management across Motorsport, Tennis, Golf and Rugby Union and client management