
18 November 2022 | The Kia Oval
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VIEW THE CATEGORIESThe Sports Business Awards recognise and reward achievement by the teams behind the scenes that facilitate sporting excellence and endeavours. We salute and champion their resilience, adaptability and resourcefulness.
Why the Sports Business Awards?

Celebrate with your team
Being an award-winner is a powerful motivator to inspire you and your colleagues to keep up the great work!

Enhance your reputation
Appending an independently judged third-party badge of excellence is a sure-fire shortcut to emphasising your merit to colleagues, clients, bosses & stakeholders.

Generate positive headlines
Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts

Aspire to Better Practice
Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Our Judges
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Lawrence Dallaglio OBE
Former England Rugby Captain
Lawrence Dallaglio OBE
Former England Rugby CaptainLawrence captained England and has 85 caps. He was with London Wasps from 1990 to his 2008 retirement. He now sits on the Board.
Since retiring from rugby he undertakes charity work with his own Dallaglio RugbyWorks; using rugby with teenagers excluded from mainstream education on a programme that aims to get them into sustained education, employment or training.
Development Director at Maistro, UK-based technology company and the world’s first digital procurement intermediary for services.
Director at Akuma Sports, a family-owned bespoke UK teamwear supplier, working on the overall company strategy and objectives.
Director at Elite FX, an established and trusted currency consultancy.
The leading rugby union expert for BT Sport and writes for The Sunday Times.
He was awarded an MBE (2004) and an OBE (2008).
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Victoria Gosling OBE
Chief Executive, GB Snowsport
Victoria Gosling OBE
Chief Executive, GB SnowsportVictoria has had an outstanding career to date with many achievements, including being the Chief Executive Officer for Invictus Games 2016 in Orlando and the Military Project Lead for the first Invictus Games (London 2014), inspiring 14 nations and over 400 athletes to compete. She has completed 21 years’ service within the Royal Air Force culminating with the prestigious rank of Group Captain.
Victoria has served on numerous deployments around the world and prior to the inaugural Invictus Games she was the Base Support Commander for a Support Helicopter Base of 2000 personnel, which provided support to Operation Herrick, Afghanistan.
Victoria is a passionate sportswoman and dedicates most of her spare time promoting sport across various sectors. She is Chief Executive for GB Snowsport; Board member for the British Olympic Association; Chair and Custodian for the Rugby Centurions, Invictus Games Strategic Advisor for the UK Delegation Board; a Board Director and Chief Strategy Officer for a flourishing FinTech Business with a mission to provide financial inclusion and she recently joined Responsible Finance Board.
In addition, Victoria is a Newspaper Reviewer for the BBC and a motivational speaker for Inspiring Women. Victoria also made a critically acclaimed West End debut as the Narrator in the musical Girlfriends, which is set on an RAF Bomber Command base during World War 2.
Victoria was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2004 following her deployment on Operations and for her commitment to RAF Waddington, and she was also subsequently appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2014 for her commitment to RAF Benson and to adaptive sports.
She is a mother of 3 young children and enjoys most sports including playing tennis, golf and spending time with her family.
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Hamish McInnes
CEO, British Shooting
Hamish McInnes
CEO, British Shooting -
Adrian Christy
Chief Executive, Table Tennis England
Adrian Christy
Chief Executive, Table Tennis England -
Andy Payne OBE
Chairman, British Esports Association
Andy Payne OBE
Chairman, British Esports Association
Our Judges
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Andy Payne OBE
Chairman, British Esports Association
Andy Payne OBE
Chairman, British Esports Association -
Adrian Christy
Chief Executive, Table Tennis England
Adrian Christy
Chief Executive, Table Tennis England
