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About ESA

Vision
ESA will unify, strengthen and advance the business of sponsorship in Europe by being the pre-eminent organisation that builds understanding, value, and demand for sponsorship across Europe.

It seeks to achieve this through its Mission and Objectives:

Mission
- Setting Standards – Identifying and promoting responsible best practice and self-regulation.
- Improving - Advancing sponsorship competencies, practice and knowledge.
- Promoting - Being an advocate for sponsorship and promoting its importance, values and ethics.
- Supporting - Being an essential resource for sponsorship information, education/training and relationships.
- Engaging – Acting as the advocate, manager and authority on key policy issues at national government and pan-European level.
- Benefiting – Encouraging the role of sponsorship to make a contribution to society.
Objectives
- To drive the sponsorship industry forward in Europe by being the authoritative voice of sponsorship in Europe.
- To increase membership across Europe to provide a broad representation reflecting the sizes of the national sponsorship markets.
- To provide a platform for networking and a range of educational and informative activities.
- Develop revenue to fund further events.


History

The European Sponsorship Association was formed in October 2003, as a result of a merger between two leading sponsorship bodies, the European Sponsorship Consultants Association (ESCA) and the Institute for Sports Sponsorship (ISS).  »

ESA Executive Board

- KAREN EARL (Chairman) Synergy »
- PIPPA COLLETT (Vice Chairman) Sponsorship Consulting »

ESA Executive Board Member Profiles

- GARY CAREY Diageo »
- MATTEO CARLI Studio Legale Avv. Matteo Carli »
- PEDRO GALVAN Feld Entertainment »
- NIGEL GEACH IFM Sports Marketing Surveys »
- SANDRA GREER Repucom International »
- TOBY HESTER Castrol BP »
- FREDDA HURWITZ Havas Sports & Entertainment »
- NICK JOHNSON Osborne Clarke »
- AMY KEMP Kempster Ltd »
- EELCO van der NOLL AB InBev »
- DAVID PETERS Carat  »
- MATT ROGAN Two Circles  »
- JOHN TRAINOR Onside Sponsorship »