As part of the ongoing world wide expansion of Gravity Media, the EMEA Business Progress workforce led by Director of Company Advancement Blair Wooden has ongoing its investment in the finest broadcast and media talent, hiring Beth Lowney as business enterprise development manager, Claire Downey as technical producer – proposals, as nicely as inner promotions for Katie Tookey as proposals supervisor — output and Osaro Ewansiha as proposals researcher.
Wood suggests about the new crew additions: “As we proceed to expand at the rear of the finish-to-conclusion Gravity Media manufacturer, we have gradually and patiently been looking for the right expertise to make sure our Business enterprise Enhancement crew can really harness the full capabilities of the EMEA business enterprise for both equally new and current clients. I am delighted we have been in a position to bring in individuals of Beth and Claire’s caliber, together with marketing great individuals from inside, to produce a definitely numerous set of competencies and working experience in just Business Advancement. The expanded staff has previously sent some charming new initiatives, branching into distinct marketplaces in the procedure, and there are more on the way around the coming months. It is exciting times at Gravity Media, with a range of big new associates coming on the journey with us, and we look forward to welcoming lots of additional.”
Beth Lowney was beforehand at the International Tennis Federation for above 8 years, the place she headed up the Broadcast Staff. Her time doing work at ITF meant she was involved in operating on the rights holder for Davis Cup — the premier yearly international team level of competition in activity, with the Billie Jean King Cup being the equivalent in women’s sport.
During her time with the ITF, Beth labored with over 75 broadcasters in about 175 territories. She was dependable for global production and distribution for the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup competitions. She also worked carefully with Kosmos on the reformat of the Davis Cup as well as heading up the media legal rights and distribution of the inaugural Billie Jean King Cup Finals doing the job carefully with Gravity Media prior to becoming a member of.
Her new Gravity Media part of Enterprise Progress Supervisor signifies she will perform across Outside Broadcast and Projects. She will be account handling critical customer relationships as properly as dedicating her time to the advancement of new small business.
Lowney states on becoming a member of Gravity Media: “Knowing the Gravity team, and doing the job specifically with them on a really effective Billie Jean King Cup Finals, I am delighted to be element of this skilled Enterprise Progress unit. Having labored on the legal rights holder aspect of sport in Media Legal rights and Manufacturing and I am fired up to bring a distinct point of view and start out doing the job with such an innovative and rising company”.
A different recent appointment has seen Claire Downey join the Gravity Media crew as Technological Producer – Proposals. Claire comes as an expert in live sporting activities productions, significantly outside the house broadcasts, obtaining labored in the sector for just about 10 yrs. Most not long ago she worked for Aurora Media Around the world as a Technological Broadcast Manager on Formula E, supporting the delivery of all system feeds and servicing worldwide rights holders.
Claire’s career has also seen her work for Deltatre, wherever she undertaking managed & presented technical guidance for lots of clients which include UEFA, Channel 4 (Paralympics coverage), European Tour and EPCR ahead of she joined WTA Media at DAZN. There she was aspect of the group that established up the challenge and put in 4 many years working onsite at WTA tennis tournaments as a Broadcast Complex Supervisor. She was responsible for scheduling and offering all the specialized factors of WTA Media host broadcasts with an emphasis on technical soundness, high manufacturing top quality, lover collaboration and shopper help.
Downey suggests on her new Gravity Media job: “In former roles I had the pleasure of working with Gravity Media’s proficient engineers on outdoors broadcasts. It is a corporation that I have normally admired, an sector chief that is regularly hunting to evolve, innovate and increase and 1 I am delighted to be part of, specifically at this kind of an interesting time for the business enterprise. I search ahead to utilizing my competencies to acquire the very very best in technical broadcast solutions for our existing and future consumers.”
Ed Tischler, Gravity Media’s MD — EMEA, provides: “We are poised to have a person of our finest decades ahead and with Blair’s dynamic and particularly experience new seem staff we can make certain the best customer and venture administration each and every move of the way.”