Event: The Business of Football Speaker Series

Organizing Committee: The London Business School Football Club and The Future Leadership Institute*
(*Between 2007 and 2011 The Institute temporarily carried the name The Wall Street Journal Future Leadership Institute)

Partners: Accenture & The Wall Street Journal Europe

Concept of ‘The Business of Football Seminars’: Gert Van Mol

Speaker: James White, Media Commercial Manager at Manchester United FC

When: Jan 17, 2011 @ 7:00pm (ends on Jan 17, 2011 @ 8:00pm)

Where: London Business School, LT4

About the speaker:
James White is the Media Commercial Manager at Manchester United and has worked at the club for nearly 4 years. He works across all of the club’s media offerings, from mobile to websites, publications to Facebook and is currently working closely with the Commercial Director on the development of Manchester United’s media strategy.

Prior to joining United he worked as a management consultant at Accenture, working predominantly in the Telecommunications & High-Tech sectors and across areas such as B2B Marketing, New Product Launch and Development, Customer Strategy, Organisational Design and Procurement.

He has an MSc in International Business & Management from Manchester Business School / Bocconi Business School Milan, a BA in French and Spanish from the University of Manchester and has lived in Paris, Madrid and Milan.
He is also an alumnus of London Business School, having completed the Emerging Leaders Programme in November 2009.