CSM Sport & Entertainment announced three significant additions to its senior management team. The team at CSM, which is headed by Group Chair SEBASTIAN COE, has been joined this month by ROOPESH PRASHAR, ALICIA KLEIN and CHARLOTTE MACARTNEY. Roopesh joined CSM as group CFO from Bell Pottinger, where he was responsible for overseeing the global group finance function for the company for the last two years as group CFO. Klein moved across from a business director position at CSM’s Brazilian office, to take up the new post of head of business development for CSM and will be based in both Zurich and London. In Brazil she was responsible for accounts such as Visa, Coca-Cola, Unilever and Hyundai. Macartney, who previously held the position of HR director at CSM agency iLUKA, joins the central CSM team to oversee the group HR function as group director of HR (CSM).
MANAGERS/COACHES: Liga MX side Monarcas Morelia announced that
ROBERTO HERNÁNDEZ will coach the team for the remainder of the Clausura 2015 season. His first game with the club will be Friday's match against Chiapas (
DPA, 2/25). ... League One side Barnsley appointed
LEE JOHNSON as manager. The 33-year-old left Oldham Athletic "to take over on a contract to 2018." Johnson "had been in charge at Boundary Park since March 2013." He replaces
DANNY WILSON,
"who was sacked by Barnsley" on Feb. 12 (
London GUARDIAN, 2/25). ... Scottish Championship side
Rangers Dir
JAMES EASDALE "resigned in the buildup to a meeting next week that could have led to him being voted off the board." The club announced to the Stock Exchange that Easdale "had left both the plc and football club boards." The announcement "came hours after the Rangers Supporters Trust revealed that it had bought a chunk of shares" previously controlled by
SANDY EASDALE, the brother of James (
PA, 2/25).
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