Main Summit

Shelley Villalobos is the managing director of the Council for Responsible Sport where she facilitates the certification of some of the world’s most responsibly produced events and stewards the development of tools to help sport organizers achieve the Responsible Sport Standards. The Council exists to support, certify and celebrate social and environmental responsibility in sport and has certified over 175 events. Prior to work with the Council, Shelley served in community outreach roles at the University of Oregon Athletic Department and City of Eugene, Oregon. She holds degrees in Journalism and Communications and Leadership in Sustainability from the University of Oregon, where she also played softball and annually instructs a 10-week course on ‘Greening Sports & Events’ in the Lundquist College of Business.

Tatiana Ghigonetto is the Founder and Executive Director of SportWorks, a business that connects the global sports community, from Lausanne Olympic Capital to the world. Combining an international career in Architecture with her entrepreneurial journey in the sports industry, her mission is to support the sports community to improve both commercially and socially. Sustainability and gender equality in sports are two of her main passions, that she cultivates through the SportWorks TALKS and EVENTS series dedicated to these topics.

Dan Murphy is an ESPN staff writer and author. He works in ESPN’s investigations and enterprise unit, where his work has been recognized with a Peabody Award and an IRE Sports Investigation of the Year award among others. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jeff Scott is a Sports Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Executive with over 18 years of experience leading community investment and youth sports development strategies and initiatives across the NBA and NHL. Well regarded as a motivational leader who is truly passionate about leveraging sports to create aspirational opportunities for multicultural youth and underrepresented communities, Jeff has consistently established the vision for the way companies must engage local communities.

Currently, as Vice President of Community Development and Growth for the National Hockey League – the premier professional ice hockey league in the world – Jeff supports and creates the leagues mission and strategies which focuses on changing the global conversation about hockey, making it the acknowledged standard for sports experiences that are inclusive, accessible, enjoyable and community-friendly. Through continued efforts, Jeff also positively influences and impacts the philanthropic and community investment decisions of all 32 NHL Clubs, Minor Hockey affiliates and Youth Hockey organizations relating to culture, youth participation, social impact and sustainability.

Hannah is Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer for Formula E. After studying Biology at Oxford and Sustainability at Cranfield, she spent the first four years of her career as an accountant with global leader KPMG from 2004 – 2008.

Over the last 12 years she has developed her expertise in the world of media, sports rights acquisition and new ventures. Hannah spent nearly a decade at Sky. During her time at Sky she secured premium sports rights for Sky Sports, led Sky’s investments in new sports ventures and supported the management of Sky’s joint venture portfolio.

She would later serve as SVP of Corporate Development for Relevent Sports Group, a US soccer marketing agency, before assuming the role Chief Strategy Officer for US OTT provider FUBO TV.

A world champion and paralympic medallist, Alexandra is also a highly motivated sustainability graduate who thrives in a team environment where she can drive her colleagues towards successful outcomes. Alexandra was instrumental in the evaluation of the London 2017 World Athletics Championships and is now embedded into the SailGP team supporting the international league’s event team to delivery across an ambitious sustainability agenda. Season 1 has already delivered significant outcomes and was a close runner up in the 2019 World Sailing sustainability awards.
Alexandra combines her academic knowledge and practical experience in competitive sport and environmental operations. An excellent communicator, she is experienced in public and motivational speaking.

Melissa’s been a part of the GB Rowing Team since 2014 and in March 2020 was selected in their Olympic Squad for the Tokyo Olympics (prior to its postponement). Since April 2020 she’s worked as part of Champions for Earth to increase the impact that athletes can have on sustainability. Last September she helped mobilise over 300 GB Olympians and Paralympians – including household names like Mo Farah, Paula Radcliffe, Steve Redgrave, the Brownlee brothers and Becky Adlington – in a letter to the PM about a green recovery, and since early 2021 has been working to make Team GB’s participation in the Olympics have a net-positive environmental impact. Her main focus is unlocking the power of athletes as role models for sustainability and advocates for the planet.

“Sustainability and environmental protection are systematically anchored in our DNA. For more than ten years, we have been committed to climate protection in the area of CSR and have set ourselves ambitious goals.”

Nico Briskorn has been working as a sustainability expert at VfL Wolfsburg for more than 10 years. Under his leadership, VfL Wolfsburg became the world’s first football club to publish a GRI-certified sustainability report in 2012. The topics range from climate protection and diversity management to child protection and human rights. In various committees and working groups at national and international level, Nico Briskorn contributes his expertise to sustainable football and plays a key role in the development and establishment of industry standards. For example, clubs in the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga went through the “Sustainclub” label together with VfL Wolfsburg in 2020, the first sustainability standard specifically for football. His team includes five employees. Briskorn graduated in 2004 with a degree in sports science.

Tom Gribbin is the CEO and co-founder of Planet Super League. Tom has twenty years experience in sustainability, new ventures, marketing and innovation. His work focuses on behaviour change and facilitating action. Tom has an MBA from the University of Cambridge and has taught Entrepreneurship in the School of Management at UCL. He also spent five years on the board of Nottingham Forest Community Trust.

Andrew Heyes is a GB International distance runner and current doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham in sport and exercise psychology. A British Champion in the 3000m indoors, Andrew is currently the chair-elect at the UKA Athletes’ Commission and sits on the Athlete Commission at UKAD as well as the Social Science Research Expert Advisory Group at WADA. In addition to his current PhD research, Andrew has an MSc in Psychology, an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology, an MBA, and an MA in Medical Sciences.