Frederick Ness joins Kentaro Germany
Hamburg, August 2 - The Kentaro Group is delighted to announce another top-class new arrival: Frederick Ness joins Kentaro Germany in Hamburg with immediate effect. The 42-year-old will act as Managing Director and will be responsible for the expansion of the business throughout Germany. “We are delighted to have attracted another top manager to Kentaro,” said Philipp Grothe, CEO of the Kentaro Group. “Frederick Ness is an expert in the fields of German marketing and sponsorship and he knows the club world inside out. With his immense experience and his long-standing contacts, he will be able to further accelerate our rapid growth.”
Ness worked for Sportfive between 1995 and 2008 and was ultimately their Senior Director Rights Acquisition. After a move to Global Sportnet, where he was responsible for their business in Germany as Vice-President Germany, he turned freelance in August 2009 and took care of sponsors, rights holders and individual athletes with his own agency. Ness said: “I am looking forward to a new challenge with such a dynamic and quickly-expanding agency like Kentaro and I am committed to contributing to its further growth.”