Hollis Sponsorship Bulletin

Professional sailing series, the ISAF World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), has appointed Matthew Strachan as its new Sales Director.
Strachan brings over 15 years of business development experience and a background working in the sports marketing industry having represented a number of global sports properties. Prior to establishing his own sports marketing business, he held roles at IMG (UK) where he developed corporate partnerships for a number of prestigious tournaments including The Open Championship and also headed corporate sales for Wembley Stadium. Strachan joins the World Match Racing Tour on the September 13th and will be responsible for identifying and targeting potential Tour title sponsors as well as secondary partners.

Swedish apparel manufacturer Sail Racing has been appointed as official clothing partner to the ISAF World Match Racing Tour (WMRT).  The three year agreement with the WMRT will provide branded team clothing for the Tour from Stena Match Cup Sweden.
Newly appointed WMRT Chief Executive, Jim O’Toole, commenting on the deal said: “We share core values such as creativity and innovation and look forward to building our clothing business to mutual benefit”.
Sail Racing has worked with some of the most successful sailing events in the world such as; the Volvo Ocean Race and Nokia Oops Cup.  The specialist sports clothing brand has also been associated with the Swedish America’s Cup Victory Challenge Team, the Audi/Q8 Team racing a TP52 in the Audi Med Cup as well as Red Bull Extreme Sailing.
Henric Wikestam, Managing Director at Sail Racing said: “We have watched the Tour’s recent growth under the new leadership team with keen interest and are ready to be part of the ambitious global expansion plans”.