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Clark Francis
E-Sports Managing Director
Clark Francis has been known as one of Dubai’s premier Tennis Coaches for over 20 years. A committed professional with a consummate passion for the game Clark instinctively understands children’s needs and requirements (he has 5 of his own!!!!) thus making CF Tennis and E-Sports a collection of very special academies for youngsters and adults alike.
Clark took over the management of E Sports in 2005,when it was solely a soccer programme. E-Sports now boasts to offer 24 different activities at over 20 venues throughout the city!!!
His dream is to operate competitive sports across the city to children of every ability---every child deserves the right to compete against likeminded and similar ability participants –not only the elite.
Clark himself has played Junior Wimbledon Tennis, semi professional soccer in the UK, INTERNATIONAL volleyball for England and plays golf from a 3 handicap!!
He possesses a degree in Education from Birmingham University and is in the business of getting the most from people.
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Gareth Mordey
E-Sports General Manager
Gareth played Badminton and Cricket to County Standard but it was Football that was the real passion. At 17 years old Gareth signed a professional contract at Sunderland Football Club in the English Premier League. Whilst in Football he passed his FA coaching basic license and achieved a degree in Sports Science and has since been invited to partake in the UEFA advanced 'A' license. Since his football career came to a premature end, Gareth has worked with a number of top sports companies including PB international Sports Agency, Sunderland Football Club (coach), Darlington Football Club (coach), Professional Footballers Association (match analysist).
To enrich his sporting knowledge Gareth has visited a number of leading sports companies and Football Clubs to see how they work including Ajax, Sporting Lisborn and Manchester United.
Since moving to Dubai in October 2005 Gareth has worked for E-Sports Dubai Football Academy (DFA) where he held the position of Academy Director. E-Sports DFA now coaches 1000's of children at over 25 venues throughout and helped it become the leading sports company in the region. As well as developing in Dubai and Abu Dhabi E-Sports DFA has now expanded into Muscat, Oman, managing the Omanoil Football School. Gareth has since taken up the position of General Manager at E-Sports. This involves managing the day to day operations as well as developing the business side of E-Sports to enable it to continue to set the standards for sport in the GCC.
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Shamsudheen
E-sports Finance Manager
Shamsudheen imparts functional expertise gained in the area of accounting to lead teams towards the attainment of growth and profitability. His role at E-Sports includes the following:
- Carry out the accounts and finance functions.
- Plan and develop monthly budgets along with projected balance sheet, P & L a/c, cash flow statements and critical analysis statement for the company.
- Perusal of routine transaction of the company to check adherence to internal control systems.
- Control overall financial transaction of the company.
- Compile accounts to support audit in line with international accounting standards and liaison with auditors for account finalization.
- Prepare various MIS reports.
- Working and developing new projects
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Terry Kidd
E-Sports Football Academy Director
Terry is a former professional footballer of Aberdeen Football Club spending 9 years with the club progressing through the youth development squads to school boy level then signing on a pro contract where he captained the youth team to Scottish Youth Cup success at Hampden Park beating Celtic F.C 2-0 in the SYCF (Scottish youth cup final).
AT his time at A.F.C ( Aberdeen F.C) Terry also represented the 1st team reserve 11 where he faced top stars such as Stillian Petrov now of Aston Villa, James Mcfadden of Birmingham and Sean Malloney of Celtic during his time at the club.After Terry’s spell at A.F.C he gained his SFA qualifications to enable him to become part of the Aberdeen F.C Football in the community network and eventually took over the position of Head Coach in the Aberdeenshire area of Scotland. After 3 years with the A.F.C development team Terry made the move to Dubai where he was approached by E-Sports DFA to bolster and improve the Football department as a whole by adding his valuable experience and knowledge of the game to the programmes on offer at DFA.
After 2 and a half years with E-Sports DFA Terry has seen himself become Head Coach of what is the now the Biggest and most popular Football Academy in the GCC.Terry has developed a reputation as one of the most popular Football coaches in the region with his ability to deliver quality sessions to kids of ages 4-17 years, this is a fantastic example of his talent as a coach and more importantly his knowledge and understanding of children of all ages.Terry has now undertaken the role of Academy Director where he is responsible for maintaining high standards throughout the Academy and also developing the overall department.
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Ben Reynolds
Abu Dhabi Manager
Ben became a professional footballer with Rushden and Diamonds at the age of 18, however after numerous injuries Ben left the club to pursue further education. In 2010 he was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Business from The University of Liverpool. Throughout this period Ben was actively involved in research projects with the prestigious University of Liverpool Football Industries Group, which looked into the commercialisation of football and footballs social role.This research took Ben to Argentina where he studied how sport was being used successfully to aid social integration within marginalised communities.
Ben has since completed his FA Coaching Badges and FA Youth Award, and coached with Blackpool FC during their year in the English Premiership. He has also gained valuable commercial experience working as an account executive on several sponsorship activation campaigns for multinational brands including Continental, Coke Africa, and Errea.
Ben is passionate about sport and youth development. This passion drives his work as the Abu Dhabi Manager for E-Sports, where he brings world class coaching and sports opportunities to the local community.
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Jimmy Repsold
Camp Director
Jimmy has a strong sporting background and has represented his province in cricket, tennis, hockey and baseball where he received his junior national colours in hockey as he left school. But it was cricket which remained his passion and he was one of only 18 players from the whole country to be selected for the Northern Elite Cricket Academy in Pretoria when studying Sports and Exercise Technology at University in South Africa.
Whilst at the academy he obtained his level 2 coaching qualifications which gave him the opportunity to be the Overseas professional in England, Ireland and New Zealand where he played and coached at very high levels for 14 years.
Originally arriving in Dubai at E-Sports as a cricket coach, the coaching side of duties has currently taken a back seat and Jimmy focuses more on other duties such as coordinating all After School Activities across the E-Sports network of Schools.
During the School Holidays Jimmy is the E-Sports Camp Director, responsible for the famous E-Sports Multi-Activity Holiday Camps which operates up to 8 different venues across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. E-Sports are now delivering Multi-Activity Holiday Camps to over 4500 Children on a yearly basis and are known as the leading holiday camp provider for children aged 4-14 in the UAE. Jimmy is responsible for all aspects of the Camps including Recruitment, Marketing and Operations
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Rebecca Ryan
Schools Partnership Manager
Rebecca is a Sports and Tourism Management graduate from University of Wales. She has worked in Sports Marketing and Events in UK and Spain before moving to Dubai in 2009. Rebecca is a passionate rugby fan and has previously worked with the Welsh Rugby Union and Cardiff Blues RFC. Using her varied experience she will now be managing the After School Programmes at several schools in Dubai along with running Corporate Sporting Events and offering Sponsorship Opportunities within E-Sports.
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