Tim Gentles, Founder

Tim Gentles is a highly creative marketing and business executive with 25+ years’ experience in Anglo-American operations. Tim started his career in the Media and Entertainment division at PwC before joining the Strategic Planning team at Disney International Television.

As Managing Director of the World Football Academy USA, Tim grew the brand from a standing start to a nationwide footprint, helping educate thousands of coaches across the USA in the process. He organised headline events at the United Soccer Coaches Convention, the largest gathering of soccer coaches in the world, 5 years in a row (Philadelphia 2015, Baltimore 2016, Los Angeles 2017, Philadelphia 2018, Chicago 2019).

Tim was awarded a Department of International Trade Scholarship to attend the Kellogg School of Management in Illinois, was invited to form part of the UK Government’s Creative Industries HVO Taskforce, and was a member of the SME Business Advisory Group to Number 10 Downing Street on Brexit. In February 2020 he was a delegate on the UK’s FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Trade Mission to Doha.