Douglas Gremmen, born in 1982, is the Commercial Director of House of Sports. Before joining House of Sports, he was the Commercial Director of GC Global Champions. Prior to that, Douglas was the Managing Director of Lagardère Sports Netherlands BV, founded in 2013. Subsequently, he has also taken on a role within the newly created European Business Development Team. Following his qualification as an economist at the University of Bath, Douglas started his professional career at IMG in 2001. After various roles in London, Shanghai, and Amsterdam, he moved to Hamburg to join the international sales team of SPORTFIVE in 2008.  Since 2010, Douglas has taken on business development roles in Geneva and Paris, before launching SPORTFIVE’s subsidiary in the Netherlands on the back of comprehensive marketing contracts with FC Utrecht, Roda JC, and NEC Nijmegen which he was in charge of since 2013. After that, he held a double function of Managing Director Lagardère Netherlands B.V and European Business Development. This department was responsible for new growth lines across all sports, all platforms, and all territories.