Stax Alumni Series: Jamie Swimmer

I have started a new position as Senior Strategy Manager at IRIS Sport Media in London. We are a boutique sports media agency that offers advisory and commercialization services to sports rightsholders and investors, and I help lead our consulting arm. I help develop and execute commercial growth strategies for rightsholders, diligence potential investment opportunities for institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds, and drive internal initiatives to elevate IRIS's positioning in the market and service offering.

Having the opportunity to assume a direct position of responsibility from day 1 at Stax was pivotal and accelerated my professional growth trajectory. My experience at Stax was different from my previous role at Accenture, where teams were much bigger and responsibility level was thus more limited. Having the ability to mentor new Associates while assuming real client delivery responsibility was extremely helpful for my career.

On my first day at IRIS I was given the project lead role for a commercial due diligence with a sovereign wealth fund considering an investment into a top European basketball competition. I would be working directly with the league's prior CEO to evaluate the opportunity and was largely left own my own to drive the project. Stax prepared me exceptionally well to run an end-to-end diligence, from structuring a deliverable to data collection and ultimate delivery. Literally starting Day 1 at IRIS I was able to tap into the foundation built during my 3 years at Stax.

Fauda. Not new, but great.