(PRESS REELEASE) -- Glory Sports International today announced the appointment of former Senior WWE Executive Andrew Whitaker as a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors for Glory Sports International, the owner and rights holder of the world’s No. 1 kickboxing league, GLORY World Series.
“Andrew has an exceptional breadth of expertise and track record of delivery in both the domestic U.S and international media business, and we are delighted to have him join us in our efforts to build the GLORY franchise, so that it can reach its full potential,” said GLORY Managing Director Marcus Luer.
"GLORY is an incredible product with tremendous growth potential in an emerging sport,” said Whitaker. “The IP has all the elements necessary to achieve very real and significant global development. I am both delighted and excited to be a part of the team and to play a part in that expansion"
Prior to establishing Kings Highway Media in 2011, Whitaker served as the Executive Vice President of International for NYSE listed WWE Inc. where he was responsible for establishing and growing the WWE international business across Television, Digital, Live Events, Licensing, PPV/VOD, Marketing, Promotion and Public and Government Relations. He sits on the Program Advisory Board for the Banff World Media Festival and Next Media Interactive Media Festival.
The next stop on GLORY’s live event schedule will be the historic PalaLottomatica arena in Rome on Nov. 3. The event, GLORY 3 Rome ‘Final 8’, will be headlined by an eight-man single-elimination tournament that will award it’s 70 kilogram (154 pound) winner a Grand Prize of $300,000.
On Dec. 2, GLORY will head to Makuhari Messe (formerly Nippon Convention Center) in Tokyo where it will produce a 16-man, single-elimination heavyweight tournament stacked with an unprecedented collection of the world’s greatest big men.
For more information visit www.gloryworldseries.com
About GLORY:
The GLORY World Series (www.gloryworldseries.com) is the world’s premier stand-up fighting league, staging events across the globe and offering up to $1,000,000 in prize money to successful fighters in 16-man grand prix tournaments which are open to only the very best fighters in each weight class.
With television deals spanning every continent plus a groundbreaking online video streaming system and the world’s largest online martial arts library, GLORY is one of the world’s most widely-broadcast sporting organizations already.
Owned and operated by Glory Sports International (GSI), the organization has offices in Holland, the UK, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Its personnel include prominent hedge-fund investors, the pioneering sports marketing agency Total Sport Asia and several executives from the Golden Glory and It’s Showtime team.
About KINGS HIGHWAY MEDIA:
Kings Highway Media is a full service international and domestic media and brand distribution advisory and investor that serves both Sports/Entertainment IP rights holders and Venture Capital/Private Equity respectively and is dedicated to the management, creation and distribution of intellectual properties. The company represents a broad range of brands actively developing original ideas and adapting existing formats and properties with the building of their branded assets equity value and multi-divisional revenue growth. www.kingshighwaymedia.com