Sport Group Holding
Friedemann A. Söll has a strong background in the sports industry, with their most recent role being Chief Product Officer for Sport Group Holding since 2023. Prior to this, they served as Chief Product Officer EMEA at Sport Group Holding GmbH starting in 2019. Friedemann A. also held the position of Geschäftsführer at Polytan GmbH from 2021 to 2023 and was previously a Product Manager at Polytan Sportstättenbau GmbH from 2006 to 2019.
Friedemann A. Söll attended Reutlingen University from 1985 to 1990, where they obtained a degree in Diplom-Ingenieur in the field of Textilwissenschaften und -technik. Friedemann A. then attended Hochschule Niederrhein from 1990 to 1991 and obtained another degree in Diplom-Ingenieur in the field of Wirtschaftswissenschaften.
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Sport Group Holding
Sport Group is the world’s largest and greenest business dedicated to sport surfaces. The Group provides synthetic turf sport fields, athletic tracks, courts and recreation areas in over 70 countries, and uniquely covers the complete value chain, including R&D, chemicals, manufacturing and installation. With headquarters in Burgheim, Germany, the Group’s corporate brands include Polytan, AstroTurf, Melos, APT and SYNLawn, and world-leading global product brands such as LigaTurf (football turf), Poligras (hockey turf), Rekortan (tracks) and Laykold (courts). Notable recent projects include tennis courts for the US Open, hockey turf for Paris 2024, soccer turf for Bayern Munich, American football turf for University of Washington and baseball turf for the Toronto Blue Jays. Sport Group is committed to green technology and has received an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Risk Rating Score of 12.7 from Sustainalytics. This places Sport Group in the top 6% of companies globally. Sport Group’s strength is sustainable products and services, for example LigaTurf Cross GT zero, is the world’s first carbon neutral football turf, and Poligras Paris GT zero, is hockey’s first carbon zero hockey turf and has been chosen for the Paris Olympics