Beyond Sport United at Yankee Stadium!

SSUSA Founder Lawrence Cann will be a featured speaker at Beyond Sport United.

Beyond Sport is amazing organization pushing the conversation forward globally on sport for development.

With the help of its Founding Supporters – MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and WNBA – Beyond Sport United, for the first time ever, will bring together the largest gathering of sports teams from around the world to address how they can do more to trigger positive social change in their communities.

Keynote speaker: 
Michael Porter, leading authority on competitive strategy and ‘shared value’ and Director of Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School

 

Opening Panel:

·         Mori Taheripour (special adviser for USAID and Wharton Business School lead on Goldman Sachs 10,000 women) - Facilitator

·         Michael Mendenhall (CEO of Lipman, former CMO of Disney and HP)

·         John Barrow (CEO of Populous)

·         Gill James (Head of Global Sustainability for Standard Chartered Bank)

 

Other speakers include:

·         Jenny Koltnow, Exec. Director, Memphis Grizzlies Foundation

·         Rob Castenada, Founder, Beyond the Ball

·         Helen Clayton, Hitz Manager, Premiership Rugby                          

·         Mike Richter, NHL All-Star and Managing Director, Environment Capital Partners

·         Bernadette Mansur, Sr. Vice President, NHL

·         Joe Mattioli, President, Pocono Raceway

·         Don Smolenski, COO, Philadelphia Eagles

·         Molly Rhone, President, International Federation of Netball Association

·         Kathy Behrens, Exec. Vice President, NBA

·         Bill Bygroves, Head of Community, Liverpool                 

·         Nir Inbar, CEO, Hapoel Tel Aviv

·         Jason Mifsud, National Manager, Australian Football League

·         Lawrence Cann, CEO, Street Soccer

·         Peter O’Reilly, VP of Marketing and Fan Strategy, NFL

·         Dr. Marjorie Snyder, Head of Research, Women’s Sports Foundation

·         Tim Brosnan, Exec. Vice President, MLB

·         Matthew Patten, Exec. Director, Lords Taverners Cricket                          

·         Sarah Lynch, Managing Director, Manchester City FC

·         Rich Berlin, CEO, Harlem RBI

·         Deanna Castellini, Founder of UGIVE and family owner of Cincinnati Reds 

  1. Date Posted Icon 2nd September 2011