Board of Directors

Jeffery W. Yabuki has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since January 2021. Mr. Yabuki is currently Chairman of Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on control-oriented growth equity and buyout investments in global fintech. He joined the firm in September 2021 and currently chairs its Investment Committee and Global Advisory Council. Since January 2024 he has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of InvestCloud, a global provider of wealth and asset management solutions. Previously, Mr. Yabuki served as the Executive Chairman of Fiserv, Inc., a global leader in financial services and payments technology, from July 2019 to December 2020. Mr. Yabuki was also the Chief Executive Officer from December 2005 to July 2020. Before joining Fiserv, Mr. Yabuki spent six years at H&R Block where he was the Chief Operating Officer. He also held various leadership roles at American Express for 12 years. Mr. Yabuki has served since 2017 as a member of the board of directors of Royal Bank of Canada, currently serving on the Human Resources Committee and the Risk Committee, and has served on the board of directors of Nasdaq since June 2023 where he is a member of the Management Compensation Committee and the Nominating & ESG Committee. He previously served on the boards of directors of Ixonia Bancshares, Inc. from 2014 to 2021 and SentinelOne, Inc. from 2021 to 2023. Mr. Yabuki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from California State University, Los Angeles, and was formerly a Certified Public Accountant in the states of California and Minnesota.

Deirdre Bigley has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2021. Ms. Bigley most recently served in several roles with Bloomberg LP, a financial services company, since September 2009, including as its Chief Marketing Officer from June 2014 through June 2021. Ms. Bigley has served as a member of the board of directors of various public companies as follows: (i) since May 2016, as a member of the board of directors and the Chair of the Compensation Committee, and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of Shutterstock Inc.; (ii) since November 2017, as a member of the board of directors and a member of the Compensation, Nominating and Governance, and Audit Committees of Wix.com Ltd.; and (iii) since April 2021, as a member of the board of directors and a member of the Audit Committee of Taboola.com Ltd. In addition, she has served on the boards of directors of Slice since July 2019 where she has been Chair of the Compensation Committee since November 2023, and Recorded Future since July 2020. Ms. Bigley holds a Bachelor of Arts from West Chester University.

John A. Doran has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2018. Mr. Doran joined Technology Crossover Ventures UK, LLP (TCV) in 2012 and serves as a General Partner. Mr. Doran has served on the board of directors and on the Appointments and Renumeration Committee of Believe SA since May 2018. Mr. Doran has served on the board of directors of Mambu B.V. since December 2020, FlixMobility GmbH (Flixbus) since August 2019, RELEX Solutions since January 2019, SuperVista AG (Brillen.de) since July 2016, Grupa Pracuj SA since August 2017 and Zepz (formerly World Remit) since June 2019. He has served as an observer on the board of directors of Revolut Ltd since February 2020 and Trade Republic Bank GmbH since June 2021. Mr. Doran served on the board of directors of Perefecto Mobile Inc. from August 2015 until December 2018. Mr. Doran led TCV’s investments in Revolut Ltd, Klarna Bank AB, and Mollie B.V. Mr. Doran holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

George Fleet has served as member of our board of directors since December 2018. Mr. Fleet founded Benella & Co. Limited in December 2017 and has served as a member of its board of directors since its founding. Mr. Fleet serves as Chairman of Advisory of Canaccord Genuity Limited having been previously Head of Advisory, Europe from November 2018 to November 2023, where he served as a member of the New Business and Executive Committees and led the coverage of the gaming and leisure sectors. Mr. Fleet has served on the board of Casumo Holding PLC, an online gaming group providing casino and sportsbook, since November 2022 and as its Chairman since September 2023, and further Chairs the Finance and Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. From September 2015 to February 2018, Mr. Fleet served as Managing Director of Houlihan Lokey. Prior to that, he served as Director of McQueen Ltd. and its affiliates from March 2003 to September 2015. Mr. Fleet is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Leeds.

Carsten Koerl has served as our Founder and Chief Executive Officer since our founding in 2001. Prior to founding Sportradar, Mr. Koerl held a number of management positions within the software development and gaming industry, including betandwin Interactive Entertainment AG, an online betting company, which he founded in 1997. He holds a Master of Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering degree from the University for Applied Sciences in Konstanz.

William Kurtz has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2023. Mr. Kurtz is a senior financial and operations executive with over 30 years of experience operating as chief financial officer or chief operating officer at several private and public technology companies. Mr. Kurtz has most recently served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Ripcord, Inc., a records management and document intelligence company, from June 2021 to January 2022, and previously served as Chief Commercial & Financial Officer from January 2020 to June 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Kurtz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Bloom Energy Corporation, a manufacturer of on-site power generation platforms, from 2015 to January 2019, and then as a strategic advisor from January 2020 to January 2021. Prior to that, he served as Bloom’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 2008. Mr. Kurtz currently sits on the board of directors of Aterian Inc. (formerly Mohawk Group), a Nasdaq listed company where he serves as Chairman of the Board, and as a member of the audit and the compensation committees, and on the board of Ripcord Inc., where he serves on the audit committee. Also, since September 2016 he has served on the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., a Nasdaq-listed analytics company, and he currently serves as chairman of its audit committee and as a member of the governance committee. Prior to 2008, Mr. Kurtz held the Chief Financial Officer or other senior finance roles for Novellus Systems (now Lam Research), Engenio Information Technologies, 3PARdata (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Scient Corporation, and AT&T Corporation. Mr. Kurtz previously served as the chairman of the audit committees of Violin Memory, PMC-Sierra (now part of Microsemi Corporation), and Redback Networks (now part of Ericsson).

Hafiz Lalani has served as member of our board of directors since October 2018. Mr. Lalani serves as Managing Director and Head of Europe for the Direct Private Equity group of CPP Investments based in London, United Kingdom, and has been with the firm since February 2006. Prior to joining CPP Investments, Mr. Lalani worked in the Technology investment banking group at CIBC World Markets from March 2004 to January 2006. Mr. Lalani has also served on the board of directors of various companies, including Visma AS since September 2020, GlobalLogic between April 2017 and July 2021, Hotelbeds between September 2016 and December 2020 and AWAS between 2010 and 2017. Mr. Lalani holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University and is a CFA Charterholder..

Rajani Ramanathan has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2023. Ms. Ramanathan currently serves as an advisor and director to several public and private technology companies in the AI, VR, Blockchain, and connected (IoT) technology space. Since June 2021, she has served on the board of Guidewire Software, a NYSE listed company offering an industry platform for property and casualty insurance carriers. She has served on their Compensation Committee and Risk Committee since June 2021 and as Chairperson of the Risk committee since October 2022. Since July 2022, Ms. Ramanathan has served on the board of Faro Technologies, a Nasdaq listed global leader in 4D digital reality solutions. She is a member of its Talent Development and Compensation Committee. Since October 2021, she has also served on the board of Hayden AI, a private company providing smart city solutions that developed the world's first autonomous traffic management platform. From June 2014 to January 2024, Ms. Ramanathan served as a member of the board of directors of ESI Group, a French publicly traded company providing virtual prototyping software solutions and services. From July 2015 to July 2022, she chaired ESI’s Technology and Marketing Committee and from September 2022 to October 2023, she chaired ESI’s Compensation Committee and the Nomination and Governance Committee. Since the acquisition of ESI Group by Keysight Technologies in October 2023, she continued to chair its Compensation Committee and also served as member of the Audit Committee, until the acquisition formalities were completed and the company was acquired and delisted in January 2024.

Marc Walder has been a member of the Sportradar Board of Directors since May 2015. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ringier AG in April 2012. He is a member of numerous boards of directors, including the SMG Swiss Marketplace Group, JobCloud AG and the Ringier Sports Media Group. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ticketcorner AG, Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz AG and Grupa Ringier Axel Springer Polska AG and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Admeira AG and Ringier Sports AG. Marc Walder is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of WORLD.MINDS.

As a member of the Digital Advisory Board of the Swiss Federal Council and founder of the digitalswitzerland location initiative, which brings together more than 250 of Switzerland's largest companies and institutions, he is committed to the country's digital development and transformation. At the Digital Economy Award Night 2019, he received the honorary "Digital Economy Ambassador" award for his commitment to the Swiss economy and the ICT sector. Under Marc Walder's leadership, Ringier AG has consistently driven the diversification and digitization of the group with significant investments in digital ecosystems.

Marc Walder graduated from the Advanced Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston in 2008. In January 2018, Marc Walder became a shareholder of Ringier AG with a 10 percent stake.