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Adam Reynolds, Executive Chairman
Adam began his career as a stockbroker in 1980, working first with Rowe Rudd and then Jacobson & Townsley as a commission salesman. In 1983, he established the London office of John Siddall & Son, becoming a director in 1987. In 1988, he brokered the sale of that office to
Branston & Gothard, where he headed up the UK equity sales team that he had brought with him for the next five years. He remained at Branston & Gothard as a UK equity salesman until 1998, when he joined Basham & Coyle, a financial PR firm, as a director in charge of investor relations, specialising in developing the PR strategies of smaller companies. In February 2000, he established Hansard Group plc, a financial PR firm, listing it on AIM in November 2000, before successfully leading a management buy-out of the business in 2004 at which time Hansard group acquired a major division of Energem Resources Inc. which changed its name to FirstAfrica Oil plc. Adam is also the chairman of International Brand Licensing plc, owners of the Admiral sports clothing brand and a director of Wilton International Management Group Limited.
Paul Andrew Peter Foulger, Finance Director
Paul has considerable public and private company experience, most recently having acted as finance director in the reversal of First Africa Oil plc into Financial Development Corporation plc. Paul previously worked in the publishing industry with HarperCollins Publishers and
subsequently became finance director at Elsevier Science, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier plc. He led a management buy-out of previously quoted financial communications group Hansard in 2004, of which he remains a director. He also consulted on the AIM listing of Table Mountain Minerals plc in 2005 and its subsequent acquisition by Plectrum Petroleum plc. In 2005, he became a director of Cielo Holdings plc, now called Curidium Medica plc, and successfully completed an acquisition of Curidium Limited in July 2006. His other directorships include International Brand Licensing plc and Wilton International Management Group. Paul is a qualified certified accountant and is currently completing his MBA at Warwick Business School.
Robin Vandeleur Courage, Chief Executive
Robin began his career in advertising and later moved into television and film production. In the early 1970s he acted as impresario to present major international entertainment artistes in cabaret and on stage in London. In 1987 Robin joined The Rowland Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Saatchi & Saatchi Group. In 1994 he founded the sports marketing company, Atkinson Courage, where he worked with his multinational clients to exploit their sponsorships of major international events. He ran Atkinson Courage for seven years prior to forming TSE. As the London-based Director of TSE, Robin focuses on developing long-term strategic plans and near-term marketing programmes for international sports federations and national and local governments. Robin is also Chairman of Fundraising and a member of the Executive Council of WheelPower, the governing body for wheelchair sport in the UK and owner of the UK's national disability sports centre at Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games.
Lars Haue-Pedersen, Executive Director
Lars was born and grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark. He now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lars's background is as an economist and he gained an MSc in economics from Odense University, Denmark. Lars was a sportsman who transferred into sports administration and from 1991 to 1995 was Secretary General of the Danish Volleyball Federation. In 1995 he joined the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) in Lausanne as Development Director. He co-founded TSE in 2001, where he remains as the Director in charge of the Lausanne head office. In addition to managing the international growth of the company Lars provides consulting services to major international sports organisations. He develops management training courses for sports organisations and event owners, and works extensively with national and regional governments involved in bidding for and/or staging major sports events. Lars is an external lecturer in sport management and sport economics at Copenhagen Business School and is an external lecturer at a number of European universities including Klagenfurt.
Brian Blasdale, Non Executive Director
Following an early career with P&O Shipping Company, Brian held a number of senior sales & marketing roles with blue chip companies including Kodak Limited. Thereafter he formed his own IT outsourcing company, achieving success in attracting a number of major blue-chip companies as clients. Subsequently he co-founded I-B Net Limited, which was listed on the AIM market as Deal Group plc in March 2000. Since this time Brian has actively been involved with a number of companies as Chairman and non executive director for and on behalf of Lloyds Development Capital Private Equity (“LDC”). Currently, Brian is Chairman of Hiatt Hardware Limited, acting for and on behalf of LDC, and a non executive director of MET Limited, an IT company.
Last updated on 26 June 2008
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