One on One with Rick Alessandri ft. William Mao

By Rick Alessandri, Managing Director at TurnkeyZRG

In this episode of One on One, Rick Alessandri interviews William Mao, the Senior Vice President of Octagon's Global Media Rights Consulting Division. They discuss Will's role in advising rights holders, distribution platforms, and technology companies in the sports media industry. They also talk about the growth and potential of women's sports, the migration of content from linear to streaming platforms, negotiation strategies in maximizing asset value, emerging sports properties, and advice for breaking into the sports industry.

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Founded in 1996, TurnkeyZRG is a highly specialized talent recruitment/executive search firm filling C-level, senior-level and mid-management level positions throughout sports, entertainment, music and media. Over the past 25 years, TurnkeyZRG has filled more than 1,400 positions throughout sports, entertainment and media. TurnkeyZRG helps teams, leagues, stadiums, arenas, theaters, college athletic departments, events, sponsors, agencies, media companies, private equity companies and other clients identify, recruit and hire the very best management talent. Turnkey now benefits from ZRG’s global footprint, full array of industry practice groups, data-driven, analytical search tools, and technology investment in changing the way executive search/talent recruiting is done. TurnkeyZRG becomes a tech-enabled disrupter of the prior executive search model.