Mongoose and Speed Sport Unite Under Mongoose Brand

Speed Communications’ specialist sports division and sister sponsorship agency Mongoose are joining forces from January 2017 to form an enlarged sports and entertainment business under the Mongoose brand.  The merger of the two businesses to create an enlarged specialist agency has been accelerated by the decision of Kate Bosomworth, Managing Partner of Speed Sport, to leave to explore new opportunities in the wider sports arena.  

Set to go live as of January 1 2017, the new business will be led by Chris O’Donoghue, currently CEO of Mongoose, with the current senior teams across both businesses forming one senior management team under his leadership. 

Commenting on the forthcoming merger of the two specialists, O’Donoghue says: “Combining Speed Sport and Mongoose is a hugely exciting step for us all and one that makes perfect sense given our specialist skills, our increasingly close working relationship and our recent acquisition of Generate Sponsorship, which was the UK’s leading independent PR and sponsorship agency.”

Speed Communications will remain under the leadership of CEO Roberta Fuke and continue to focus on its business, corporate and consumer specialisms, working with the Mongoose team to provide clients with access to sports expertise as appropriate.