Tim Banfield is owner of TAB Live Consulting Ltd providing a business advisory service, executive mentoring and specialist venue and event consulting services. With extensive senior executive and board experience Tim is currently acting as business advisor to The ShaperGroup and is an Associate with International Venue Management (IVM) as well as undertaking individual consulting projects.

Tim has vast major venue and events experience having overseen the opening of the 10,000 seat Echo Arena Liverpool and hosting events including BBC Sports Personality of the Year, MTV Europe Music Awards, the St Leger Festival in Doncaster and developing bids for sports events such as the World Netball Cup 2019. Tim has professional passion for mentoring industry colleagues and a year-round love of outdoor sports.

Jen has worked as an event and project manager for the last 27 years, working on events such as Rugby World Cup 1999, the Sydney Olympic and Paralympics in 2000 and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. From 2003 she worked for Culture Liverpool as part of the bid and delivery team, helping to deliver the most successful ever European Capital of Culture in 2008. She also project managed the trilogy of Giant’s visits by Royal de Luxe; the events welcoming more than 3 million visitors to the city. Most recently she oversaw the Opening Ceremony, City Welcome and Fan Park for the Vitality Netball World Cup in 2019 and delivered the World Gymnastics Championships 2022. As Lead for Major Sports Events her role is to work with the Sport Liverpool Board and manage the major sports event team. Jen has been passionate about sport from an early age.

A former England and Super League netball player, who has previously held key positions at British Swimming, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Rugby World Cup before joining Manchester City Football Club in 2015. Charlotte is currently Managing Director of Manchester City Women, following 7 years in the club’s boys academy as Director of Operations and Development, and latterly Academy Director. Charlotte was recently Chair of the World Para Swimming Championships 2023 and has also been a board member for the World Taekwondo Grand Prix 2018 and the World Taekwondo Championships 2019.

Andy has been organising and promoting sports events since the late nineties when he set up his own sports marketing business in Hong Kong. Having delivered professional sports events in Ireland, Hungary and across Asia, Andy completed the MBA programme at INSEAD in France. He then joined Wasserman in 2008, creating and managing a London 2012 project for UK Sport that raised £20m to support athletes in their medal ambition. The multisport experience continued with the Invictus Games as Andy took a leading role in concept development and planning for the Royal Foundation. More recently, Andy led London’s successful bid to host Major League Baseball games and is now responsible for delivery of the annual event at London Stadium.

Hamid is currently Head of Participation and Community Engagement at London Marathon Events, leading on accelerating their work across communities. He has over 15 years' experience working in a range of senior roles within the community and sport sectors and is a passionate diversity and inclusion advocate. Prior to his current role, Hamid worked as Strategic Lead for Sported where he managed projects and services to almost 400 community sports organisations in London, primarily focusing on disadvantaged and under-represented communities across the capital and understanding barriers to engagement. Hamid holds a variety of Board appointments - Non-Executive Director at the Sport and Recreation Alliance and Chair of their EDI Sub-Committee, Trustee of The Running Charity, and an External Advisor to British Cycling on EDI, amongst other mentoring and advisory roles

Ben is Commercial Director at The ACC Liverpool Group, operators of M&S Bank Arena, Exhibition Centre Liverpool, ACC Liverpool and ticketing agency Ticket Quarter. As commercial director, Ben’s role includes developing the overall commercial strategy for The ACC Liverpool Group. He oversees the commercial and sponsorship, marketing, sales and ticketing teams across all markets in which the company operates. Ben joined from SMG Europe where, as General Manager, he led the team that launched the first direct Arena in Leeds. Prior to this, he was Commercial and Marketing Director at Manchester Arena and previously a Head of Sponsorship and Promotions for Capital Radio Group.

Ben has worked within the events industry and across large scale venues for many years and has knowledge and experience of working with a multitude of national and international promoters, organisers, sports networks and governing bodies. During this time he has been part of the delivery team for the Fina Short Course World Championships, Tour de France opening ceremony and team presentation and the Netball World Cup.