Sportable
Eliot Simpson is an experienced professional in sports operations and program management, currently serving as Field Operations Coordinator at Sportable since August 2022, where operational coordination has been directed across the UK, Europe, and North America, alongside the collection and analysis of smartball data for Six Nations unions. Previously, Eliot was a Program Officer at Northampton Saints Foundation from May 2021 to August 2022, successfully managing daily activities and overseeing a staffing team at the Milton Keynes site. Eliot also gained experience as an Events Assistant at Fanatics, Inc. in 2019. Educational qualifications include a TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Team Leading from Leeds City College and a BA (Hons) in Sports Business and Coaching from UCFB, complemented by A Levels in Maths, Economics, and Physical Education from Sharnbrook Upper School.
Sportable
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.