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== Management ==
== Management ==
'''[http://www.riccardosilva.com/index.php/en/ Riccardo Silva]''', '''[[Andrea Radrizzani]]''' and '''Carlo Pozzali''' are the founding partners of MP & Silva.
'''[[Riccardo_Silva|Riccardo Silva]]''', '''[[Andrea Radrizzani]]''' and '''Carlo Pozzali''' are the founding partners of MP & Silva.


'''Marco Auletta''' and '''Peter Hutton''' are joint CEOs for the whole MP & Silva Group.
'''Marco Auletta''' and '''Peter Hutton''' are joint CEOs for the whole MP & Silva Group.

Revision as of 20:19, 21 July 2014

MP & Silva
Formation2004
Location
Key people
Riccardo Silva, Andrea Radrizzani, Carlo Pozzali, Marco Auletta, Peter Hutton
Staff
100
Websitewww.mpsilva.com

MP & Silva (abbreviation for Media Partners & Silva Limited) is a media rights company that owns, manages and distributes sports media rights. The company's portfolio includes premium international sports content of mainly football, tennis and motor sports TV rights.

Description

MP & Silva is an international media rights company based in London,[1] with 18 offices around the globe.[2][3] The company manages sports TV rights for a range of international sporting events and distributes around 10,000 hours of programming to some 500 broadcasters globally.[4] The company's portfolio includes FIFA World Cup rights, Europe's top leagues in football, Grand Slam tennis,[5] motor racing, handball, baseball, volleyball,[6] boxing and the Asian Games.

History

MP & Silva began in 2004 with the acquisition of the global rights distribution of selected Italian Serie A football teams.[citation needed] In 2006, the company acquired the rights for the majority of Serie A teams. The first headquarters office opened in Singapore in 2007. By 2009, the company's portfolio principally consisted of media rights of European football leagues being distributed to Asian TV broadcasters. In 2010, MP & Silva headquarters moved to London and a new strategic partnership with Arsenal FC was established. The company acquired Pan-European rights for Roland Garros, the French Tennis Open in 2011.[7]

In 2012, MP & Silva launched their corporate social responsibility program called Play for Change.

In 2013, MP & Silva secured the Premier League’s broadcast rights in 51 territories, in a move that grants it the biggest portfolio of contracts among its agency rivals. The agency also recently announced the acquisition of Formula 1 rights to MENA and some selected European countries to its portfolio.[8][9][10][11]

In 2014, the company added Formula 1, Belgian Pro League, and the Chinese Professional Baseball League to its portfolio, advancing even more in their media rights market leadership.

In the last year, the company has also invested in developing production & digital services as well as a newly launched Sponsorship department.

Management

Riccardo Silva, Andrea Radrizzani and Carlo Pozzali are the founding partners of MP & Silva.

Marco Auletta and Peter Hutton are joint CEOs for the whole MP & Silva Group.

Other top senior managers of the group are Roberto Dalmiglio, Managing Director Europe, Su Hyeon Cho, Managing Director Japan-Korea, Beatrice Lee,Managing Director Asia-Pacific, Stefano Turconi, Managing Director Americas, Lara Vanjak, Senior Vice President International Sales, Mark Gorski, Senior Vice President International Corporate Development, and Sameer Pabari, Head of Production & Digital.

File:Riccardo Silva.jpg
Riccardo Silva, Founding Partner

Riccardo Silva is the president of the company, a major shareholder, and a founding partner. His father’s family owns a chemical industrial conglomerate in Italy and France founded in 1908, while his maternal family Fabbri has been known for its publishing company (Fabbri Editori), now part of the RCS MediaGroup. Born in 1970 in Milan, Italy, Silva completed studies in Bocconi University and Tulane University, before launching MP Web, an internet start-up of the Media Partners Group (now Infront Media), managing sports rights and content for mobile and Internet platforms.[12] In 2001 he became CEO of Milan Channel, the official TV channel of AC Milan football club, and guided the international development of the channel.[13] Silva founded MP & Silva in 2004. He was selected as one of the speakers at the Davos Sports Forum 2013.[14][15]

Andrea Radrizanni, Founding Partner

Andrea Radrizzani is the Group CEO and founding partner. He is the creative leader of MP & Silva, overseeing the company's operations in Asia, Europe and Americas. Born in Rho, Milan's metropolitan area, Andrea Radrizzani got his degree Public Relations from IULM University in 1996. A long-term professional partnership with Riccardo Silva and a sharing passion for sports led them to found MP & Silva in 2004. Andrea has been in the fore front of the media rights company as Group CEO since its beginning. Under his leadership the business has grown to worth $350 million. Andrea Radrizzani is an experienced sports rights specialist[16] and he has personally committed as media advisor to some of MP & Silva’s rights holders partners such as the International Baseball Federation (IBAF),[17] Arsenal FC[18][19] and the Spanish Basketball Federation, Liga Endesa.[20] Andrea’s opinion has been requested by the international press to comment on sports rights multi-millionaire deals[21] and new trends in the sports rights global market. He was recently invited to be a speaker at the Doha GOALS initiative.[22] Amongst his area of expertise, Andrea concentrates on digital media rights,[23] football international growth[24] and sports TV growth in the Asian market.[25]

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Carlo Pozzali, Founding Partner of MP & Silva

Carlo Pozzali, based in Miami, is the third co-founder and partner of MP & Silva. He is part of the Board of Directors of the Group and also oversees group sales, acquisition and development strategy across the Americas, covering the USA, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. Carlo started to work in his hometown Milan, Italy in the advertising area and after some years has moved in the sport business industry. For over 20 years Carlo has covered senior executive positions working among the others at IMG and Sportfive agencies. Carlo has personally been involved in Latin American media rights deal, such as Brazilian and South American football, MLB, ATP tennis tournaments and Superbike Classic.[26][27][28][29] He has lunched MP & Silva office in USA in 2005 where he lives with his wife and two kids.

Portfolio

The company’s television rights portfolio includes 2014 FIFA World Cup, Serie A,[30] Premier League,[31] La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Major League Soccer (MLS),[32] the Brazilian national league (Brasileirão), Arsenal F.C., the A.C. Milan Channel, several Asian football federations, Formula One,[33] the French Open at Roland Garros, eight ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournaments, EHF Handball Champions League, Italian Volleyball League, DTM, World Baseball Classic,[34] National Basketball Association (NBA), FIA Formula E Championship, FIBA Basketball World Cup, Spanish Basketball League (Liga Endesa), Belgian Pro League, the Chinese Professional Baseball League, and the Asian Games.

Play for Change

MP & Silva has a corporate social responsibility programme called Play for Change. Play for Change runs fundraising activities and events to support our orphanage in Bali which provides critical and life-changing services to street children. MP & Silva works together with Play for Change in order to build lasting friendships with corporate partners, charities and stakeholders to continue to raise awareness and funds for causes that make a difference through empowering the young.

References

  1. ^ "MP & Silva (London) Headquarters of MP & Silva". Sportcal Market Intelligence.
  2. ^ http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Global/Issues/2013/01/17/Media/MP-Silva.aspx
  3. ^ "MP & Silva Global presence". MP & Silva Web Site.
  4. ^ "Media Company MP & Silva Puts Sports on YouTube With Rightster". Bloomberg.
  5. ^ "The big interview - MP & Silva". Sports Industry Groups.
  6. ^ "Italian volleyball 'breaks a stunning record' with MP & Silva". SportsPro.
  7. ^ http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/tennis/13160-mp-a-silva-win-european-broadcast-distribution-rights-for-french-open
  8. ^ "Motor racing-Formula One secures TV rights deal for Middle East". Reuters. 2013-12-19.
  9. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-gh/news/4630/soccerex/2013/02/19/3762978/mp-silva-assumes-dominant-position-in-agency-market-with-new
  10. ^ "Premier League sells Middle East and Africa TV rights". BBC News. 2013-01-31.
  11. ^ "Premier League sells Middle East and Africa TV rights". BBC News. 2013-01-31.
  12. ^ "MP Web". Sport Business.
  13. ^ "Italian Serie A rights assigned in South Africa". Sport Business.
  14. ^ "Riccardo Silva". Davos Sports Forum.
  15. ^ "Davos Sports Forum Will be the Initiator for Future Development of Sport Around the World". Yahoo!Finance.
  16. ^ http://www.sportindustry.biz/feature/view/11482/big-interview---mp-%26-silva
  17. ^ http://www.ibaf.org/en/article-detail.aspx?id=37c3dda0-47dc-4961-9d64-edf5a822286f
  18. ^ http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/mp-and-silva-enter-agreement-with-arsenal
  19. ^ http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/emirates_cup_success/
  20. ^ http://www.managingsport.com/categor%C3%AD/andrea_radrizzani
  21. ^ Burrell, Ian (2012-09-13). "BT wins its broadcasting ruck with BSkyB for rugby rights". The Independent. London.
  22. ^ http://www.dohagoals.com/en/program/speakers
  23. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-16/media-company-mp-and-silva-puts-sports-on-youtube-with-rightster
  24. ^ http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Sports/Football/2012/Nov-17/195274-premier-league-considers-spending-curbs.ashx#axzz2IEnrTk48
  25. ^ http://www.soccerex.com/industry-news/mp-silva-to-feed-asias-passion-for-english-football/
  26. ^ http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/mp_silva_to_distribute_brazilian_soccer_until_2015/
  27. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-za/news/4633/soccerex/2014/01/09/4533821/mp-silva-to-distribute-brazilian-soccer-until-2015
  28. ^ http://www.sportbusiness.com/tv-sports-markets/world-superbikes-deal-marks-new-property-mp-silva
  29. ^ http://www.sportbusiness.com/tv-sports-markets/world-superbikes-deal-marks-new-property-mp-silva
  30. ^ "MP & Silva acquired Italian Serie A's international media rights". European Professional Football Leagues.
  31. ^ "MP & Silva has brokered a six-year deal with the Football Association (FA) which grants it the media rights to the FA Cup, Community Shield and England national team games across all Asian territories, with the exception of Thailand". Sport Business.
  32. ^ "Media Notes: MP & Silva Extends Worldwide Partnership With MLS". Sport Business Daily Journal.
  33. ^ "Motor racing-Formula One secures TV rights deal for Middle East". Reuters. 2013-12-19.
  34. ^ "MP & Silva has been selected to distribute all qualifying and main draw tournament games for the 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC)". Sport Business.
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