Lenz Balan

President & CEO
The London Lions

.Lenz Balan is President & CEO of the London Lions, London's professional basketball club and one of the most decorated sports organizations in British basketball history. He has led the club since 2024, when he orchestrated its rescue from administration by securing Tesonet, a leading European technology investor, as the incoming owner, before being appointed by the new board to run the organization full-time.

His route to the Lions began with his earlier role as a Principal at a Miami- and London-based family office, where he led the club's original acquisition and oversaw its initial strategic development. Before that, he built his career in private equity, mezzanine finance, and investment banking, including at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, giving him an unusual combination of financial structuring expertise and hands-on sports franchise operations experience.

At the Lions, Lenz is leading the club's next phase of growth — encompassing commercial development, community basketball programs across London, youth academy expansion, and a long-term arena development project. He sits on the Mayor of London's Basketball Taskforce, serves on the Board of the London Lions CIC — the club's community interest company, which delivers grassroots basketball and social impact programs across the capital — and has served on the Board of the POSSE Foundation, reflecting a long-standing commitment to community development and access to opportunity.

Lenz is one of the leading voices on professional basketball's role in London's sporting and real estate landscape, and on the potential for sport to anchor ambitious public-private partnerships in the capital.

Becky Stormer

Head of UK Sports Sector
CBRE

Becky leads CBRE's UK Sports Sector practice and is responsible for the delivery of sector-specialized real estate advisory services to our sport and entertainment clients. Her experience spans multiple sports, including football, cricket, and basketball, amongst others. Prior to this role, Becky spent 6 years in London Investment where she advised clients on the acquisition and disposal of commercial real estate holdings, including offices, retail, residential and hotels. Becky is also a football player at Fulham FC Women where she has played for the last 8 years, giving her first-hand insight and appreciation for the working model of sports clubs.

Colin Chong

Chief Real Estate and Regeneration Officer
Everton Football Club

Iain Jenkinson

Executive Director and Co-Lead of the UK Planning & Development Team
CBRE

Iain is an Executive Director and Co-Lead of the UK Planning & Development team. Iain’s experience, and passion, is in advising on major, complex, mixed use and city centre residential and commercial developments, with a particular specialism in providing the town planning, delivery and funding advice to unlock and accelerate complex developments. 

He is currently advising Manchester United on the delivery of their new stadium having advised Everton Football Club on the delivery of their new home at Bramley Moore Dock within Liverpool’s world class waterfront.

Since July 2024, Iain has led CBRE’s business engagement with the Government and is currently working with No 10 Downing Street, HM Treasury, the Ministry and Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Department for Business and Trade, the Office for Investment and Homes England in providing practical solutions to address the prevalent viability challenges in real estate construction markets.  

He is currently the lead for CBRE’s National Delivery Partner mandate for the Office for Investment’s Strategic Site Accelerator fund and in 2024, Iain was the lead author of the Business Case that established the Greater Manchester Good Growth Fund.

Karen Hirst

Project Director
Old Trafford Regeneration Mayoral Development Corporation

Karen is Project Director Old Trafford Regeneration Mayoral Development Corporation. 

Prior to that she was Managing Director of Maple Grove Developments and Board Director of Eric Wright Group. Karen has significant property development and regeneration experience in public and private sector and was previously Development Director at Salford City Council/Central Salford Regeneration Company. 

Jon-Scott Kohli

Architect Director
BDP

Jon-Scott Kohli is a Canadian-born British architect and urban designer passionate about achieving quality through rigorous collaborative process. His projects have a strong civic focus, characterised by complex geometry and unique technical challenges. He is a director at BDP Pattern, having led architecture, interiors, and masterplan sports projects in the UK, Middle East and Americas, including Hill Dickinson Stadium, the Terrace Fan Zone for Brighton and Hove Albion, and the Callao Multi-Sport Arena. Routinely is at the centre of coordinating large consultant teams, Jon-Scott has a track record of designing and delivering innovative projects under difficult timescales and budgets. As a LEED-accredited green building professional, he champions BDP’s sustainable sports initiatives.

Eddie Cummings

Lead - Venue Planning Team
CBRE

Eddie leads CBRE’s Venue Planning team, building stadium and arena market-adjusted business plans for clients to facilitate investment and development. Since joining CBRE in September 2025, Eddie and his team have undertaken four feasibility projects including two high-profile projects in the UK, as well as a top tier club in Germany.

Eddie started his career with Deloitte in both Audit & Assurance and the M&A divisions and oversaw the Financial Due Diligence project for the renovation of Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu on behalf of Sixth Street Partners.

Following this successful project, Eddie joined Sixth Street’s subsidiary entity, Legends Global, where he oversaw 13 Feasibility Studies for stadia & arena projects across Spain, Portugal and Saudi Arabia, with several projects securing financing and moving to development and operations phase. These include stadium projects for Valencia CF, FC Porto and Real Betis.

Timothy A Self

Managing Director
JP Morgan

Tim leads JPMorgan’s Public Finance & Infrastructure Direct Lending Group.  The Group deploys JPMorgan’s balance sheet (as a direct lender/credit support provider) in a variety of forms to a range of greenfield & brownfield infrastructure projects, public-private partnerships and municipal issuers. 

The Group currently has $29 billion of exposure to various projects/P3s/municipal issuers across multiple sectors (infrastructure (including toll roads/bridges, airports, stadiums, arenas etc.), energy, water & sewer, healthcare, higher-ed, state and local governments etc.).  Tim sets strategy for the Group, chairs the Credit Committee and is actively involved in many of the stadium & arena projects that the Group finances [including SoFi stadium (LA Rams / LA Chargers), Nu Stadium (Inter Miami), Etihad Park (New York), You-Tube Theatre (LA), Sphere (Las Vegas), Hill Dickinson Stadium (Everton), Fulham Riverside Stand (London), Co-Op Live (Manchester), Spotify Camp Nou (Barcelona)].

Prior to joining JPMorgan in 2007, Tim worked for Lloyds TSB Bank in a variety of management roles within their Wholesale & International Banking departments.  In 2000, Tim relocated from London to New York to join Lloyds TSB’s Structured Finance team where he was responsible for establishing the municipal finance business.  Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in American Business Studies from the University of Wales, Swansea and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Tayomara Gama

Regional Sports + Entertainment Lead - Europe
Gensler

Vicky Jaycock

Vice President, Global Sales - UK
Legends Global

Vicky is a commercial leader with over 15 years’ experience specializing in transformational growth through premiumization of world-class stadiums and major event venues. She joined Legends Global in 2025 as Vice President of Global Sales, to drive continued growth while delivering specialist expertise into its existing partner portfolio. Previously, Vicky led the commercial transformation of premium experiences for Everton’s billion-pound Hill Dickinson Stadium - taking the club’s new waterfront home from blueprint to opening season in 2025. Vicky also played a pivotal role in the commercialization of Liverpool Football Club’s main stand development in 2016, during her 7 years working for the club.  She has also served as a sales leader at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool where she delivered commercial growth through its early years. Vicky is passionate about raising the bar for stadia success, and she’s a regular voice for insight and collaboration on the sports industry stage.

Joe Ritchie

Managing Director
Tishman Speyer