RACHAEL CHURCH
Managing Director, ArkSports - www.arksports.com

Rachael Church is Managing Director of ArkSports (www.arksports.com), a London-based research company and consultancy specialising in all areas of the business of sport including broadcasting, sponsorship and new media. She is the Editor of e-newsletter Sport and Technology (www.sportandtechnology.com) and the author of several widely-acclaimed reports including Sport on the Internet (June 2000), the Global Business of Sports Television (March 2003) both published by Screen Digest and Bidding and Hosting: The Guide to Successful Sporting Events (Sportcal, September 2003). Rachael is the former Director of Consulting for the SportBusiness Group in London and previous Editor of both the European Sponsorship Newsletter and PACT Magazine for the Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television.

She is the former Editor of several financial newsletters including Emerging Markets Focus, Cash Management Focus, Financial Times World Accounting Report and Financial Times Fraud Report. She was also Head of Reports at Financial Times Media & Telecoms for two years with direct responsibility for a list of over 200 management reports covering all aspects of sponsorship, broadcasting, film, new media and telecoms. Rachael has contributed to trade press including SportBusiness International, Television Business International, Advanced Television Markets, Cable & Satellite Europe, Screen Digest, Marketing and Football Insider.

She has been a speaker and chair at many leading sports conferences including the International Olympic Committee conference on New Media (Lausanne, December 2000) FINA's World Congress on Marketing and New Media (Barcelona, April 2001), Medientage's Sports and New Media (Munich, November 2001), ESCA's Sponsorship Congress (Stockholm, November 2001), SportBusiness' Motorsport Business (Monte Carlo, December 2001), ASI's European Digital Television Symposium (Barcelona, November 2002), SportAccord (Madrid, May 2003) and the Financial Times Conference on the Business of Sport (London, June 2003).

Rachael has a BA Honours degree from Queen’s University Belfast and an MPhil from Exeter University.