Motorsport Network Expands Senior Team
Motorsport Network has expanded its senior leadership team with three new executive appointments, including former Dugout COO, Ian Nolan.
Nolan joins the motorsport and automotive media company as the new vice president of business development and innovation. Nolan, who also had a 12-year stint with Yahoo, overseeing fantasy sports, begins his new role on 13th November.
Andrew van de Burgt also joins from his role at FIA Formula E, where he oversaw content and social media for the all-electric racing series. Van de Burgt, who was editor-in-chief at Autosport, now returns to this role where he will oversee Autosport, F1 Racing and Motorsport News titles.
Meanwhile, Motorsport Network’s Amalgam Collection has a new CEO with former McLaren special operations, head of operations, Ben Street joining the group. Originally joining McLaren in 2010, Street was head of logistics at McLaren Automotive prior to assuming his head of operations role with McLaren Special Operations in 2014.
Street will now bring his experience of building full-sized cars at McLaren to Amalgam Collection who produce scale models of both road and race cars for brands including Audi, Aston Martin, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Ferrari, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Lotus, McLaren, Pagini and Porsche.
Motorsport Network is the publisher of online titles including Motorsport.com, Autosport.com and Motor1.com. In the UK, the group also produces print editions for Autosport plus F1 Racing and Motorsport News.
Motorsport Network CEO, Colin Smith said: “Motorsport Network has achieved incredible growth in the past two years – now serving more than 185 million page views a month to our global audience.
“But there is more to our growth than just page views, as we’re expanding into more countries, while also growing our broad range of motorsport and automotive businesses across TV, media, retail, marketing and gaming.
“For us to successfully manage this expansion and growth, we need key experienced people to help us along our way. To be able to attract quality talent like Andrew, Ian and Ben is a testament to our current success and vision.”
