Andy Evans
Chairman
A founder member of World In Motion, Andy’s experience in the fields of commercial and sports law is one of the foundation stones of our success. Having established a reputation as a formidable lawyer with international law firm, Freshfields, Andy became a licensed FA players’ agent in 1997 and is now head of our football division. He works closely with all the company’s football clients and has successfully negotiated more than 500 transfers. He is fluent in French and Spanish and represents clubs home and abroad, helping them to find the finest talents around the globe.
Email: aevans@worldinmotion.com
Charles Mountifield
Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer at World in Motion, Charles works closely with Chairman Andy Evans on company operations in general and business development in Australia in particular, dividing his time between Australia and the UK. Charles is a former Director of World in Motion and after twenty years working in professional sport in the UK and France, Charles returned to Australia in 2011 with Essentially Group and was the company’s CEO until 2014. Charles read law and sports management at university and holds an LLM in Sports Law and an MSc in Sports Management. He speaks French and combines his role at World in Motion with consultancy work and university lecturing.
Sam Jackson
Head of Research & Analytics
Sam joined World In Motion in the summer of 2016 having caught the company’s attention with a blog devoted to the statistical analysis of goalkeepers. Holding first-class BA and MA degrees, Sam works closely with World In Motion’s goalkeeping-focused subsidiary, GK1 Management, to develop new methods of analysing goalkeepers in order to uniquely assist clubs with their goalkeeping recruitment. He is also responsible for identifying talent across all positions with a range of statistical methods
E-mail: sjackson@worldinmotion.com
Bill Pethybridge
Licensed Players Agent
Bill joined World in Motion in 2000 from a leading multi discipline marketing agency, Exposure, where he was heavily involved in the planning and implementation of nationwide promotional and marketing campaigns. Prior to Exposure , Bill spent six years working as an Event co-ordinator and travelled Europe working at high profile sporting events. After gaining his FIFA licence in 2001 Bill has built up his own portfolio of clients, and now represents a number of Premier League and Football League players. As World in Motion has grown, Bill has taken on more responsibility in terms of recruiting and managing young players and developing our links with foreign players and their representatives.
James Lippett
Licensed Players Agent
James joined World in Motion from New Era Global Sports in October 2010, having obtained his Agent’s License in 2008. Based in London, James has a domestic client list comprising Premier League, Championship, League 1 and 2. He also represents a number of international players that are currently playing overseas and a select group of Managers/Head Coaches. James has also become an influential agent in the German market having negotiated transfers to take players to Bundesliga/Bundesliga 2 and also has also moved players from Germany to England.
Email: jlippett@worldinmotion.com
Darren Bossons
Licensed Players Agent
Darren joined the World in Motion team after having successfully operated agency Seven Sport for ten years. During this time Darren identified and managed players throughout the UK Leagues whilst also conducting numerous high value Premier League transfers. Darren has been licensed since 2001 and has gone on to establish an impressive client base and brings significant experience to World in Motion where he will predominantly operate in the North of England.
Email: darren@worldinmotion.com
Charlie McNicholas
Licensed Players Agent
Charlie joined the World in Motion team back in 2010, and has since assembled a client list featuring Premier League and Championship players. A graduate of Oxford University, Charlie is also fluent in three foreign languages, enabling him to play an integral role in the company’s overseas division. In recent years Charlie has brokered a number of deals at clubs in both the English Premier League and Spain’s top division, La Liga.
Email: charlie@worldinmotion.com
Jonne Lindblom
Licensed Players Agent
Jonne joined World in Motion full time in early 2016. After gaining his FIFA license in 2010, Jonne started his own agency, Golden Star Management. Headquartered in Helsinki, Golden Star has offices in Tallinn, Stockholm, New York and Brussels. Jonne has established an excellent contact network in Scandinavia, Central Europe, United States, Colombia and other global markets. He has completed over 60 deals for international players, including Uruguay legend Diego Lugano and 100 transfers overall globally. Jonne runs the Scandinavian office for World in Motion and divides his time between Scandinavia and London. Jonne is fluent in Finnish, Swedish and English.
E-mail: jlindblom@worldinmotion.com
Michael Gorman
Attorney & Licensed Player Agent
Michael manages the American MLS and South American markets for World in Motion, dividing his time between Los Angeles and Medellin, Colombia. His strong relationships in South America and understanding of the complex MLS rules have helped him to negotiate over €25 million in total transactions since 2012. Michael speaks Spanish fluently and previously worked as a finance attorney for investment funds and the United States federal government.
E-mail: mgorman@worldinmotion.com
Graham Ross
Football Consultant
Based in Australia, Graham is an ex-professional goalkeeper with over forty years’ experience in the football industry. Following retirement, Graham moved into coaching, winning a number of titles in Australia over a ten year period. Graham is also Managing Director of Red Lion Football; Australia’s number one distributor of Nike team wear, Australian agents for Locust Gloves and was the original Sells agents for six years. The company also runs international football tours linking up with clubs like Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton, Real Madrid & FC Barcelona. Graham combines his involvement with coaching and role at Red Lion Football with a consultancy role with World in Motion and GK1.
E-mail: graham@worldinmotion.com
Julien Laurens
Football Consultant
Julien joined World in Motion last January after working for many years in the media industry. He is looking after the French market and brings great knowledge of French players and French football to the company. He lives in London but travels to France on a regular basis for meetings, matches and scouting trips.
E-mail: julien@worldinmotion.com
Danny Naisbitt
FA Licensed Intermediary
Danny Naisbitt joined the World in Motion team in February 2016. Ex-professional goalkeeper Danny had a playing career which lasted over twenty years and he played for a host of clubs including; Middlesbrough, Walsall, Barnet, Brentford, AFC Wimbledon, Histon, Brighton (loan) and Cambridge United. Danny’s clients include Premier League players/goalkeepers.
E-mail: danny@worldinmotion.com
David Balda
Football Consultant
David joins World in Motion with a background as a former football player and an education in management and marketing. He has experience as a football scout and sports director at football clubs. He is fluent in English, Czech, Slovak and Polish and will assist World in Motion principally in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
E-mail: dbalda@worldinmotion.com
Gabor Lucza
Licensed Intermediary
Gabor runs the Central European office for World in Motion and divides his time between Hungary and England. Gabor is a former Hungarian U19 player, whose career was cut short by injury at the age of 21. Before joining World in Motion, Gabor was with Nike Hungary for a number of years, forming relationships with clubs, players and corporates. Gabor has excellent relationships with a number of clubs in Central and Eastern Europe and has been integral in developing a successful Central European branch of the company.
E-mail: glucza@worldinmotion.com
Mark Bennett
Licensed Players Agent
Mark has had a fifteen year career in the football industry and has built a notable reputation as an international intermediary. He has successfully negotiated numerous contracts for players and clubs in both the UK and throughout Europe. Mark brings a host of skills to World in Motion including professionalism, integrity and a focus on building long term associations with clients.
E-mail: mbennett@worldinmotion.com
Dejan Smuk
Football Consultant
Dejan Smuk joined World in Motion in 2015. He was CEO at a leading outdoor advertising provider in Slovenia, also worked in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia&Herzegovina and Macedonia, where they were either number 1 or 2 market provider. The company has been owned by two private equity funds from UK and Poland and having been sold to one of the major global outdoor advertising groups, he was involved in implementation of regionwide promotional and marketing campaigns which brought him a wealth of contacts in a Balkan region. Dejan’s main role at World in Motion is to identify and recruit the best young talent in Balkan region. The former football player has a background in coaching and scouting, and previously worked with a lot of football clubs in the region, where he was responsible for marketing and development strategy. This brought him an in-depth knowledge of the former Yugoslavian football market. Dejan speaks English and all languages of former Yugoslavian countries.
Email: dejan@worldinmotion.com
Michael Savage
Licensed Intermediary
With a background in property, finance and accountancy, joining World in Motion was a natural progression due to Michael’s keen interests in sport and player development. His expertise in finance and accountancy shows synergy with the football world where figures and contracts are key elements to a player’s professional life and career. Over the years, Michael has been a football club commercial & finance director and was one of the youngest club chairmen in the UK. His duties also extended to management meetings and advisor to the board of directors within the SPFL & SFA.
