Fraser Hardie Access Sport Founding Patron Expand Founder and Senior Partner, Blue Rubicon. Fraser established Blue Rubicon 16 years ago on a kitchen table in South London going on to build it into one of the most respected and awarded reputation advisory firms in the world. Previously he worked in senior communications roles in two FTSE100 companies. Fraser was Head of Communications for PowerGen PLC and Global Media Spokesman for Rio Tinto. In 2015 Fraser was voted Agency Professional of the Decade at the CorpComms Awards. Fraser has been involved with Access Sport since the very early days and is a regular table host at the ‘A Question of Access Sport’ Annual Dinner.
Tim Jones Access Sport Chairman Expand Former managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, legal adviser to London 2012 and general counsel to England 2015 for the Rugby World Cup. Tim is also a member of the Access Sport Income Generation team.
Mark Burgess Expand Chief Investment Officer at Columbia Threadneedle and a member of the Access Sport Income Generation team.
Paul Dolan Expand Paul has over 25 years of experience from the Investment Banking industry and in 2014 founded Dolan Sports Management to manage the careers and wealth of elite athletes, improve the visibility of female sporting role models, and finance sports facilities for the underprivileged. Dolan Sports Management has committed to a multi-year pledge to donate 10% of the net profits to Access Sport.
Martin McPhee Expand Martin is currently a board member of a number of global organisations and an Operating Partner within a major global Private Equity company. Martin is a former Managing Partner at Accenture and Senior Vice President at Cisco, where he was responsible for running, building and transforming businesses of up to 15,000 people. Martin has five children ranging from 25 to 8, so recognises the importance that sports have in the development of his own children, he is a keen and active golfer, skier, enjoys football and is currently on the Access Sport Income Generation team.
Danny Goldblum Expand Managing Director and Head of Corporate Treasury Solutions UK and W. Europe, HSBC. Danny has been with HSBC since 1998 and in January 2014 became an Access Sport Patron after taking part in our London Cycle Sportive. Danny has since been a regular attendee of various Influencer events as well as our annual ‘A Question of Access Sport’ dinner, leading his HSBC team to victory in 2015!