Stockholm has become a hot spot for sport marketing. On Monday Commercial Sports Media was happy to invite Martin Carlsson Wall and Nick Andersson with students from Stockholm School of Economics to a padel event at Good to Great in Danderyd. SSE is at the moment providing the course “Investments and Value Creation in Global Sports” for MSc students.
CSM and Sportway find it very important to support high level of academic studies and research related to sport management and marketing. Not at least in a city like Stockholm that is the home of many growth companies in sport tech sector.

Holger Ensslin, ex Managing Director of Sky Deutschland and experienced media rights specialist Michael Gott are joining CSM to widen CSM’s activities into German speaking territories.

– Our business model has proven itself in the Nordic region since 2014 and the timing is right to expand into new markets, says Jonas Persson, CEO of CSM, who earlier this year advised German ice hockey league, DEL, on a new six-year-deal with Deutsche Telekom.

Holger Ensslin held executive positions at Sky Deutschland during 18 years and contributed to make Germanys biggest pay-TV operation a highly valuable asset in Fox portfolio of media companies when sold to Comcast.

– Holger and Michael bring major experience and a top level network of executive contacts at some of the leading media companies in the world, Jonas Persson, comments.

– I am impressed by the business CSM has bulit in the Nordics over the last years and look forward to be instrumental to expand CSM´s activities and success into German speaking territories, says Holger Ensslin.

Michael Gott has a very long international track record of advising sport rightsholders and has been consulting at highest level in the media industry since +20 years.

– I am looking forward to enter into this cooperation at a time when sport industry is getting increasingly complex year-by-year. There is a strong demand for expertise to advise sport organisations in this market place, Michael Gott, says.

Stockholm based CSM started to operate in 2014 and has been consulting clients such as Swedish Hockey League, Finnish ice hockey league and ice hockey federations across the Nordics. CSM is also the exclusive advisor of SEF, that is handling Swedish top league football.