Nigel is a sports-business consultant and was co-founder and CEO of FMMInternational. He established ground-breaking partnerships between East Bengal, the AIFF and Leicester City, and Glasgow Rangers and Shenzhen. He brought Shenzhen and an AC Milan team to India, took East Bengal and India U17’s to the UK, and partnered Arsenal and then Inter Milan with Tata Tea for a pan-India football tournament involving 1000 schools in 15 cities. He brought Boca Juniors Football Schools to India, and has negotiated the transfer of European, Asian and African players to Australia, China, New Zealand, Hong Kong and India.

He has had articles published in UK, Brazil, China, India & Japan; he co-wrote and researched ‘Football in China’, bought by sports businesses in 15 countries worldwide, and the India section of Opportunities in the Business of Sport: Asia. As Head of Football Research and Consultancy at DVBS (Business School) Nigel designed the UK’s first football-business BA degree prior to developing similar for Oldham Business Management School. He has an MBA Football Industries (Distinction) from the University of Liverpool.

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