GlideSlope

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GlideSlope
Company typeLLC
IndustrySports
GenreSports business consulting
Founded2010
FounderDavid Fuller, Dave Mingey, Eric Guthoff
Defunct2017 (2017)
FateAcquired by CSM Sport & Entertainment
Headquarters
133 West 19th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
,
United States
Key people
David Fuller, Dave Mingey, Eric Guthoff, Tori Stevens
Website theglideslope.com

GlideSlope is a management consulting firm involved in global sport. GlideSlope was founded in 2010 and currently headquartered in New York City. [1] In April 2017, GlideSlope was acquired by CSM Sport & Entertainment.

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Description

GlideSlope specializes in advising brands on strategies to "leverage global sport as a business driver". It maintains a neutral point of view by not participating in any sponsorship sales, activation, or the representation of athletes. [2] [3]

The company’s services include sport strategy, learning lab workshops, intelligence reporting, analytical insights, opportunity analysis, measurement, and stakeholder integration. [1]

History

GlideSlope was founded by three partners – David Fuller, Dave Mingey and Eric Guthoff – in 2010. Headquartered in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Within two years, the company would establish its headquarters in Manhattan, building out the entire floor of 133 West 19th street.

In 2011, GlideSlope formed a joint venture with Helios Partners, an international sports marketing agency owned by French media and event company, the Armoury Group. The JV, named HGS, came a year after the two companies partnered to become the Olympic agency of record for Dow Chemical. [2]

In 2014, Helios and GlideSlope ended their partnership and GlideSlope retained Dow’s Olympic business. [4]

GlideSlope worked extensively with brands to better understand sports and social unrest, particularly in the lead-up to the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, both hosted in Brazil. [5] [6]

Currently, GlideSlope is advising Citi on their global sports sponsorship, which includes USOC and NBC sponsorship. Other clients –past and present - include Procter & Gamble, Dow, McDonald’s, The North Face, Johnson & Johnson, Bridgestone, GoPro, USG, Gatorade, Pepsi and ABInBev. GlideSlope also selected A Ganar – a Partners of the Americas organization – as a pro bono client. [7]

In March 2015, GlideSlope hosted a panel at the annual South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. The “Sport for Development: Affecting Societal Change” panel included GlideSlope president, Dave Mingey, Olympic gold medalist, Joey Cheek, director of Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, Matt Geschke, and director of sport for development at Partners of the Americas, Paul Teeple. [8] [9]

GlideSlope was acquired by CSM Sport & Entertainment in 2017. [10]

Academic partnerships

Founders

David Fuller is a practitioner in the worlds of business strategy, marketing and creative excellence. He has held executive positions in strategy and operations for Ogilvy and R/GA and as a partner at Mother NY, where he conceived and grew the experiential marketing practice. He has managed advertising, digital and social media campaigns for brands such a Virgin, Dell, Nike, Walmart, and Jaguar Cars. [13]

Dave Mingey was a VP of marketing at Pepsi-Cola and also the director of global Olympic marketing for Johnson & Johnson from 2005 to 2009. In 2009, Sports Business Journal named him one of “Forty-Under-Forty” top sports executives. [14]

Eric Guthoff was a global director at IMG in their Olympic Consulting Division. Sports Business Journal named him to the “Forty-Under-Forty” class of 2015, as a top sports executive in the industry. [15]

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