Team

Gregor Lentze

Managing director

Together with Stefan Schuster, Gregor Lentze has been managing partner of mm sports since 2007 and also of mm sports pitch GmbH since 2014. He is also the founding partner of Lentze Stopper attorneys at law. From 2003 - 2006, he was managing director of FIFA Marketing & TV Deutschland in Munich where he was responsible for implementing the FIFA marketing programme for the football World Cup in 2006. Prior to that, he was head of the legal department of FIFA Marketing & TV AG in Zug, Switzerland and oversaw such events as the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan. From 1998 - June 2001, Gregor was Senior Legal Counsel for ISL Marketing AG in Lucerne, which followed on from his work as Associate Counsel at Townleys Sports Lawyers in London. He studied jurisprudence in Germany in Bayreuth and Munich, then bacame a Master of Laws (LL.M) at Temple University in Philadelphia, majoring in American sports law.Gregor is also on of the publishers of the World Sports Law Report.

Stefan Schuster

Managing director

Together with Gregor Lentze, Stefan Schuster has been managing partner of mm sports since 2007 and also of mm sports pitch GmbH since 2014: Prior to that he was Head of Sales and Business Development for FIFA between 2003-2007, which saw him heavily involved in the development and sales of the current FIFA 2007-2014 marketing programme and also in the development of the FIFA Quality Programme which includes quality assurance for football pitches.

As Head of New Media, he was also responsible from 2001 onwards for the successful development of FIFA´s digital media. From 1995 - 2001, Stefan was Director of Buisness Development and Sales at Kabel New Media AG where he was respnsible for such clients as ISL Marketing AG, the ATP Tour, ProSieben/Sat.1 and Siemens. He studied at the Stuttgart Media University and is a qualified industial egineer.

Bettina Schuster

SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER

Bettina Schuster joined the mm sports pitch GmbH in July 2015 and supports the team with sales power and market development services. Before she worked five years for the ProSiebenSat1 Group in different positions, last as brand manager kabel eins. 2007 she moved over to Switzerland where she was innovation manager at Daniel Swarovski Corporation AG in Feldmeilen (Zurich). 2002 she started to work for the debitel group (today: mobilcom-debitel AG), where she supervised the market entry of the first mobile TV-enabled phone in Germany. From 1998 to 2001 she was responsible for the research department of Kabel New Media. Bettina Schuster is a graduate of Stuttgart Media University in industrial engineering.

Christof Schleppinghoff

UNit Director Sales

Christof Schleppinghoff, who joined mm sports pitch in January 2015 as Unit Director Sales, adds more than 20 years of national and international experiences in the sports and media business to the team. After working with Wunderman Cato Johnson (Young & Rubicam Group), Christof was Director Alternative Retail Channels at max.mobil from 1996 to 1999 and Director Marketing/Retail/Business Development at Wige Media AG from 2001 to 2006. Since 2007, Christof has supported a variety of different sports media service providers and other companies in the development and establishment of new distribution channels, new products and innovative business models, including, e.g.,  Wige Media AG in Cologne, Sportcast GmbH in Vienna, New York, Munich and Cologne. This also covered the areas of social media platforms and E-commerce.

Fabian Berger

PROJECT MANAGER

Fabian Berger joined mm sports pitch in September 2015 to support the team in the fields of sales and project management. From 2011 on Fabian studied Sport Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Eva Richter

OFFICE MANAGER

Eva Richter, since April 2012 at mm sports pitch, is a graduate in business administration (university of cooperative education) and received the First State examination in law. She is responsible for accounting and controlling and furthermore handles our corporate activities.

Christina Korf

Assistant

Christina Korf, who joined the team of mm sports pitch in September 2014, completed a vocational training as a bank clerk and now works as an assistant for the Managing Partners and as general project support. She is also responsible for the company’s administration, human resources as well as accounting and preliminary bookkeeping.

Sandra Eichner

Assistant

Sandra Eichner joined mm sports pitch GmbH in July 2013 and supports the team assistance and office management departments of mm sports pitch GmbH.