Angelina Tennino (Executive Director)

With a career spanning a decade in media sales and event management, Angelina Tennino brings a wealth of expertise to the ongoing development of EVMI. Immediately prior to joining EVMI, Angelina organised the industry's highly-regarded Stadium Revenue Summit, the well-received Auditoria Executive Summit and launched Stadia Design & Technology conference for UKIP Media & Events in 2008. Before this, she organised international trade exhibitions and conferences – as well as industry award ceremonies – across Europe and North American for Sayers Publishing Group (UK). Today, Angelina takes on the day-to-day and strategic management of EVMI to ensure the institute does indeed "deliver tomorrow's venue managers".

Michael Siebold (Arnecke Siebold)

Michael Siebold, founding partner of Arnecke Siebold law firm, is a German native with considerable international experience. Having lived in the USA and Canada for some time, and having studied inter alia in London, UK, Michael Siebold has experienced common law jurisdictions for many years now yet remaining a practitioner under German civil law. In his practice of law he concentrates on serving clients from the all over the world in Europe, mainly Germany.

Ben Veenbrink (The Stadium Consultancy B.V.)

Ben Veenbrink is founder and managing director of The Stadium Consultancy, a specialist consultancy company for the planning, development and management of stadiums and arenas. Prior to his own consultancy firm he was managing director of Amsterdam ArenA Advisory and gained longstanding experience in the operation and the revenue maximisation of Europe's first multifunctional and most successful stadium.

Ian Nuttall(TheStadiumBusiness.com / Xperiology)

Ian began his career in the sports events sector over two decades ago, hosting corporate hospitality at F1 Grand Prix motor racing events across Europe. After an award-winning career in business journalism in Europe, Asia and Australia, he launched the industry’s Stadia magazine in 1999 to fill the ‘knowledge gap’ in the global sports & entertainment facility sector. Together with sister title Auditoria, his publications at their peak reached over 21,000 venue owners, operators and developers in more than 60 countries. A co-founder of EVMI in 2006, Ian has subsequently launched a range of business information services including the Stadium Business Summit, Nordic Venue Forum, TheStadiumBusiness.com and the Stadium Business Awards – all under his Xperiology brand. In addition to his ongoing commitments as a sports business writer and international conference speaker, Ian provides highly-valued, specialist consultancy services to the sports and entertainment venue sector. Utilising his unrivalled network of industry contacts and specialists he delivers strategic results on any consulting assignment challenge.

Ian Probert (Researcher)

The newest (and youngest) addition to the EMVI roster, joining as a part-time correspondent/researcher, Ian Probert is an ambitious Marketing Management and Sport Development undergraduate at the University of Gloucestershire. Currently in the middle of a year-long internship at Forest Green Rovers FC. (a small professional soccer club in the South West of England), Ian has been swiftly adding to his stadium management skill-set’ through attendance of Stadia magazine’s Stadium Revenue Summit (in both 2006 and 2007). Also enrolled on the 2008 EVMI Stadium Management Summer School (SMSS) programme, Ian is clearly keen to pursue a career in the industry upon graduation.