Razan is an accomplished professional in the public and private sectors in the GCC with more than 12 years of experience spanning across multiple sectors such as Sports, Culture, Education & Human Capital Development, and Finance. Razan was nominated in 2021 to be on the Board of the Saudi Arabian Modern Pentathlon Federation – a newly formed sports federation in KSA – leading its strategy development, financial planning and operations and is a member of the Strategy and International Affairs Committees. She is also the Vice President of the Board of the Arab Modern Pentathlon Federation.

Hammad Albalawi is an experienced leader in the sports and tourism sectors committed to serving Saudi Arabia’s remarkable transformation as part of Vision 2030. He currently heads up the Saudi Arabia FIFA World Cup™ 2034 bid unit at the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF). He leads a team across all functions set out to achieve Saudi Arabia’s dreams of hosting the largest-ever edition of a 48-team FIFA World Cup™ held in a single nation. The bid recently revealed details of its ambition to host the iconic global football event, held under the slogan ‘Growing. Together.’ Albalawi previously held the role of Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategic Planning & Investment at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Sport. He oversaw both the strategy and investment departments at a time of incredible development for the sports sector. He led a team that helped formulate the Kingdom’s ambitious National Sports Strategy, built on three core pillars – mass participation, talent development and elite performance. The role also included working closely with the Saudi Arabian Football Federation and Saudi Pro League to develop the National Football Strategy, a long-term transformative approach to all areas of the Saudi game. On the investment side, Hammad led the privatization initiative of state-owned sports assets for the very first time, which included implementing regulatory and policy changes aimed at making the sector more attractive to local and foreign investors. The project also included helping support realizing a return on investment for numerous sports federation’s intellectual property (IP), such as the Formula 1® Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, while assisting on engagement with the private sector, including the sale of naming rights and establishing new commercial opportunities.

Khalid Al-Khudair is the CEO of SMC. His previous role to SMC was CXO to one of the largest banks in the Kingdom leading the experience and brand transformation and chairs the Media committee on behalf of all Saudi Banks.
Khalid Founded Glowork in 2010, an employment organization that created thousands of jobs for women and placed over 40,000 women thus far.
He is the first Saudi Ashoka Fellow, Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum & an Endeavor Entrepreneur.
Khalid has held the role of Chief Operating Officer- Markets at KPMG in Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan.
He has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Saint Mary’s University in Canada with three majors, Marketing, HR and Psychology, and has completed his Executive Education in Leadership at the University of Yale, and in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
Khalid a multi-award leader with and acclaimed personality with awards and titles such as the Chaillot Prize for Human Rights by the European Union, The King Salman Award for Entrepreneurship, Ranked 3# Most Influential Arab by Arabian Business, EY Entrepreneur of The Year, amongst many others.
Khalid sits on the board of management for the General Entertainment Authority also sits on a number of Advisory boards throughout the Globe including the L’Oréal Global Panel of Critical Friends, The Global Agenda Council on Middle East and North Africa Issues at the World Economic Forum, and is an Amend’s Fellow at the University of Stanford.

Sultan Althari is a Founding Partner at The Althari Group, a global strategic advisory and investment firm, where he leads a portfolio of engagements at the intersection of sports, media, and entertainment. As a member of the Executive and Investment Committees at Al Shabab FC, he oversees strategic investments and global outreach. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the World Football Summit and previously served as a Senior Advisor at Inter Miami CF. Sultan is a Harvard University alumnus and a best-selling author, widely recognized for his insights into socio-economic, cultural, and geopolitical trends.

James Bisgrove joined Saudi Pro League side Al-Qadsiah as CEO in June 2024, charged with leading the club’s transformation on and off the field into one of the leading sports organizations in Saudi Arabia and across Asia. Previously CEO and Board member of Glasgow giants Rangers FC, James led significant revenue growth and was part of the management team that enjoyed a run to a European final in 2022; he was also appointed to the board of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) in 2023. Before the Rangers, James was the Head of Sponsorship for the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, working both in-house at UEFA and, later, at TEAM Marketing, based in Switzerland. James has further commercial and football marketing experience in the Middle East, where he led global sponsorship activities at Emirates Airline based out of Dubai.

Experience in Sports & Entertainment and in football clubs advisory, management and ownership roles (FC Barcelona, City Football Group, Prime Time Sport). International Marketing and Business Development in several FMCG companies (Reckitt Benckiser, Sara Lee, Unilever). Author of the sports marketing book “Show Me The Money”, translated into 5 languages

Co-founder of OVG, Tim Leiweke is a leader and veteran in the sports and entertainment industry with more than 35 years experience spanning multiple teams, leagues, and facility developments around the world. No one else has been recognized on both the Billboard Top 100 People in the Music Business and the Most Influential Sports Executives by the Sports Business Journal in the same year. In addition to creating Coachella and other iconic music festivals, he has also been part of Championship teams in the NBA, NHL, MLS, AHL, and DEL. Oak View Group is the global leader in venue development, management, and premium hospitality services for the live event industry. Offering an unmatched, 360-degree solution set for a collection of world-class owned venues and a client roster that includes the most influential, highest attended arenas, convention centers, music festivals, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions on the planet.

Javier Tebas Medrano (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1962), of Spanish nationality, holds a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza. He has been a practising lawyer since 1987 and founded his own legal firm, specialising in Company Law and, subsequently, in sports and bankruptcy law.

Tebas’s direct involvement in football began in 1993, when he was named president of Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, a position he held until 1998 (a period during which the club competed in Spain’s Tercera Division and Segunda Division B). He later served as a board member at C.D. Badajoz S.A.D. and C.D. Toledo S.A.D. before being elected vice-president of LaLiga in 2001. In 2003 he headed up the G-30, a group representing 30 small LaLiga clubs that was set up to collectively negotiate their audiovisual rights. He has been LALIGA president since 2013 and was re-elected in 2016 and again for a further four-year term in 2019. In 2021 he was appointed as representative of European Leagues on the UEFA Executive Committee.
Tebas’s tenure as LALIGA president has revolved around three core areas; the introduction of a financial controls system which has enabled the clubs to restructure their finances; the collective sale of audiovisual rights which boosts the clubs’ revenue in a balanced way, and the league’s internationalisation strategy, which has seen LALIGA and its member clubs establish themselves as a benchmark reference on the global stage, not just on the field but in the entertainment industry as a whole. In addition, Boost LALIGA, the strategic project of LALIGA and CVC Capital Partners, was recently created to promote growth and consolidation in the areas of technology, innovation, internationalisation and the sporting sphere.