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Branding expert and founder and CEO of A-Mark Partnership Strategies Jim Andrews and ESPN commentator Shaka Hislop talk with MarketWatch Financial Columnist James Rogers about the challenges that the controversial Qatar World Cup is throwing up for the tournament’s sponsors and how this could impact future sporting events.

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Shaka Hislop
ESPN commentator
Shaka Hislop spent 15 years as a professional soccer player, most of which were in England’s Premier League where he played for Newcastle, West Ham United and Portsmouth. He also spent a season in Major League Soccer with FC Dallas. On the international stage, Hislop made 26 appearances for the Trinidad & Tobago soccer team, and played during the country’s World Cup debut in Germany in 2006. An alum of Howard University and a soccer analyst and commentator, he is an ESPN correspondent. Hislop is also a founding member and honorary president of the anti-racism organization ‘Show Racism the Red Card.’
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James Rogers
Financial Columnist, MarketWatch
James Rogers is an award-winning journalist who has been covering technology and business since the 1990s. Before joining Dow Jones, he worked at Financial Times Specialist and Fox News, where he covered the U.S. space program and Silicon Valley. Prior to this, he was tech editor and managing editor at TheStreet.com. He has embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan and has written extensively about topics as varied as sports and archaeology. Born in Liverpool, U.K., he is a long-suffering fan of Everton Football Club.
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Jim Andrews
Founder & CEO, A-Mark Partnership Strategies
Jim is an acknowledged expert in the fields of sponsorship, event and sports marketing. He was instrumental in building pioneering sponsorship firm IEG into a global leader in industry data, information and consulting.

He has worked with organizations of many stripes to create strategic sponsorship programs focused on best practices in sponsorship assessment, selection, negotiation, contracting, valuation, activation and ROI measurement. A respected industry veteran, his network of contacts across sports and sponsorship—from rightsholders and brands to agencies, data and technology suppliers and beyond—is unparalleled.

As a sought-after thought leader, Jim is widely recognized for providing critical insights and education through trainings, appearances and publications. In addition to identifying key trends and delivering his unique perspective on the most important issues facing rightsholders and their commercial partners, he is recognized for identifying and developing strategies and concepts for securing, evaluating and optimizing partnerships now widely adopted by corporate, sports, entertainment and nonprofit marketers of all types and sizes.

Jim spent 30-plus years with IEG, including notable roles as chairman of the annual IEG Sponsorship Conference and author of IEG’s annual report and forecast of overall sponsorship spending, as well as director of its annual industry surveys.

A frequent media commentator and guest, Jim has been a featured speaker at hundreds of sports, entertainment and marketing conferences around the world. He currently hosts the All Access Interview Series podcast for TicketManager.

Jim also is an adjunct lecturer in Northwestern University’s Master’s in Sports Administration program, where he teaches a course in sports sponsorship.

A New York native, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern.
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