GSEG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Marketing and Sponsorship Specialist
Barnett is an entrepreneurial marketing and sponsorship specialist with a long and successful career in building and selling marketing services agencies. He has been responsible for brokering and activating high profile, global brand sponsorships in sports and entertainment, specifically in F1 and golf working with brands including Vodafone, Intel and Santander. Barnett is also an accomplished sports car and motorcycle racer.
Ian Rosenblatt is an entrepreneurial executive with over forty years' experience in business development ventures, cross border M&A, and international partnerships. His professional qualifications include business analysis, structuring advice, financial consultancy, and private placing fund raising services provided to a number of international high net worth private clients. He qualified as an insolvency practitioner and spent his formative years working on company turnarounds throughout the UK and USA following which he was recruited to head up the property arm for a Family Trust based in Southern Ireland. During this period, he was instrumental in negotiating deals with major property landlords acquiring significant freehold assets on behalf of the Family Trust in the UK and Europe. In addition, between 1994 and 1998 he acquired on behalf of clients none-core retail chains from major conglomerates such as Sears, Ratners, etc. which generated combined revenues in excess of £300m. In 2004, Ian was appointed as the CEO of a Public Company quoted on the Brussels and Luxembourg stock exchanges which had operations in the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and USA. In 2009 the company was taken back into private hands. Ian retired from the business to focus on providing consultancy advice to enterprising start-up ventures, and helping them navigate the early transitions of raising capital, structuring management and, in due course, reviewing IPO and exit strategies. SEG has been building its presence in the sport games industry for 4+ years via its acquisition of GFS - Global Fantasy Sports, a leading fantasy sports provider.