Sean Rice

Commercial Partnerships Lead at The Ocean Bottle

Sean Rice has a wealth of work experience, beginning in 2010 when they were appointed Director of SportsLife Programme at Varsity College. In this role, they supported the development of the SportsLife program to create a sporting and extramural system for university students in South Africa. In 2014, they took on two roles, first as Co-Founder of YourPaddleLife and then as Project Director for the Good Sport Trust. At YourPaddleLife, they provided coaching workshops to exclusive groups in as many as 22 countries annually. At the Good Sport Trust, they negotiated with local government and the private sector to help facilitate their interest in corporate social investment, and implemented a national framework for physical education and sport inside of schools. In 2016, they became Sponsorships & Partnerships Manager at Logan Sports Marketing, a role which required a breadth of functional expertise from commercial operations to partnership management. In 2019, they were appointed Head of Partnerships at National Fitness Games. Finally, in 2021, they took on the role of Commercial Partnerships at PerformX Live, and in 2022 they were promoted to Commercial Partnerships Manager at Ocean Bottle.

Sean Rice completed their Bachelor of Philosophy (B Phil) Honours in Marketing Management at IMM Graduate School of Marketing from 2014 to 2015, with a field of study in Marketing/Marketing Management, General. Prior to that, they obtained a Diploma in Marketing from IMM Graduate School of Marketing between 2010 and 2013, with a field of study in Marketing.

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  • Commercial Partnerships Lead

    December, 2022 - present