The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has hired Florian Dammer as bicycle manager and Simone Ramsauer as new PR manager. Stefanie Burkert, PR manager and assistant secretary general, will be on sabbatical leave, starting December and will join the WFSGI again in April, 2012.
The 28-year-old German Florian Dammer joined the growing WFSGI team this November. He used to compete in Youth Road Racing in the German Bundesliga and took part in World Cup's. The endurance sport enthusiast studied Business economics and Sports Management in Heidelberg/Germany and worked at KTM Fahrrad and Lowa Shoes in the Marketing division in Austria. In 2010 he started to develop the Sales and Marketing for sportcampus.com, a platform to provide online retail trainings in Munich.
WFSGI Executive Board Member Jeroen Snijders-Blok (COO Accell Group) says: “After our initial evaluation period with the WFSGI and the Bicycle industry it is the right time to hire Florian as our Bicycle Manager in order to extend the services to our Bicycle Members and to further develop new programs with the UCI and other bicycle stakeholders. We are glad that we found someone like Florian who knows both the competition scene as well as the technical bicycle issues.”
Simone Ramsauer also joined the team in November 2011 and has acquired a great knowledge in various sport organizations. Before joining the WFSGI she was the Project Manager at the agency that markets the National Beachvolleyball Tour in Switzerland. Further she worked at the Vancouver Organizing Committee as the Deputy Manager of NOC/NPC Services Centre and in 2008/09 at Populous Architecture in London at the studio which designed the Olympic Stadium for London 2012. For more than eight years, Simone Ramsauer gained a huge insight into the Olympic Games as the Project Manager of Olympic Team Management at Swiss Olympic. The Swiss has a hands-on- attitude and is a pragmatic, praxis-oriented person with a degree in Sports Management.
“With Simone we have found someone who knows the many different assets of the Olympic Movement and with our growth intentions to develop the IOC and IF relations, we will be able to lean on her valuable experience to be incorporated within the WFSGI,” says Robbert de Kock.
