Deloitte’s David Blackwell Joins Sports Performance Masterclass Panel

July 10, 2015

iSportconnect, sickness the world’s largest global private network of sports business executives, cough is delighted to announce David Blackwell, Sports Analytics Partner at Deloitte, as a panellist for the first Sports Performance Masterclass.

The inaugural event will take place at Grange St. Paul’s hotel in London on 14^th July.

Blackwell will be joining an impressive panel which currently includes:

– David Sheepshanks, Chairman of St George’s Park

– Les Reed, Executive Director at Southampton Football Club

– Dr Raphael Brandon, Head of Science and Medicine at the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB)

– Richard Gould, Chief Executive of Surrey County Cricket Club,

– Ken van Someren, Head of Research & Development at the GSK Human Performance Lab

– Simon Wilson, Director of Football Services at City Football Group.

David Blackwell is a partner in Deloitte’s analytics practice and takes the lead for Deloitte’s sports analytics work across the globe.

David started his working life as a strategy consultant in 1999, focusing on the Telecoms and Media sectors. Over the course of the last 8 years, he has increasingly focused in the field of data strategy and analytics within the sporting sector, whilst also continuing his work with FTSE 100 corporates.

In sport, David has worked with leading rugby, Olympic and AFL teams to drive enhanced performance through data. In doing so, he has imported technologies and techniques proven in the world of large enterprises, and used them to tackle the performance analytics challenges in sport.

The iSportconnect Sports Performance Masterclass is the latest in a line of successful and insightful events this year and will gather industry professionals to discuss and share best practice on sports performance.

Invitation Policy: The Sports Performance Masterclass is an exclusive invite only event to senior industry executives and other similar positions at governing bodies, federations, teams/clubs and brands only.

To register your interest please contact Sylvia-Line Lamaro at sylvia-line@isportconnect.com

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