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London, Great Britain –
A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has appointed Octagon Worldwide, the
global sales and marketing agency, to assist in the strategic development and
co-ordination of commercial sales for the series. The operation will be based in
Octagon’s London offices and members of the newly strengthened A1GP commercial
team will work on a day to day basis with them.
The A1GP Commercial team cover all the parts of the world reporting to Scott
Hollingsworth, Chief Commercial Officer & Regional CEO (Americas). New
appointments to the team are Julian Cottam, General Manager for Commercial
Development, and Tarek Mokbel, General Manager Commercial Development Asia
Pacific. Cottam, who has been involved in the sport for over 25 years and
worked with Prodrive and both McLaren and Renault F1 teams, will be based in
London. He will be responsible for co-ordinating sales development and also
work on finding new commercial partners for the series. Mokbel will manage sales
development and partnerships across Asia Pacific region from the Singapore
office. He has recently been working for Motorsport Asia and has also worked for
Blackrock Sports Marketing on sponsorship acquisition for golf, rugby and
motorsport.
A1GP South African office based Simon Robinson, who has worked for the series
since 2005, in line with the regionalisation of the series is now General
Manager Commercial Development Middle East and Africa, while Stewart Bain, who
works from the London offices of both A1GP and Octagon, is General Manager
Commercial Development Europe.
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