Zak & Tracy Brown

Zak & Tracy Brown

Zak Brown is the Group Chief Executive Officer of CSM Sport & Entertainment, a position to which he was appointed in March 2015, and the Executive Chairman of JMI, the world’s largest motorsport marketing agency. Brown founded JMI in 1995 and the company was acquired by CSM, a division of Chime Communications plc in 2013. Born and raised in California, Brown is based in London but is constantly on the move around CSM’s 22 offices in 15 countries.

JMI has a global reach and influence in many aspects of motor sport including Formula 1and NASCAR. Brown’s list of accomplishments with JMI includes playing a key role in successfully lifting NASCAR’s 50-plus year ban on spirits sponsorship. Brown and JMI raised more motor sport sponsorship in the past decade than any other agency. Brown has also been named in the Sports Business Journal ’s Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame, Business F1 Magazine’s “Formula One Power List,” and Charlotte Observer’s annual “NASCAR Power List.” As CEO, he developed JMI to become the largest motor sport marketing agency in the world. Investors have included Spire Capital, Credit Suisse and WPP, the world’s largest communications services group.

Brown pursues his passion for motor sport on and off the track as a partner in United Autosports, the unique Anglo-American team that competes in the European Le Mans Championship.  Brown races his owns collection of historic racing cars, which are prepared and maintained by the team at United Autosports.

Brown has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the sports industry and an unrivalled understanding of the commercial practicalities that underpin the relationship between sponsor and property owner. He also possesses an extensive network of relationships, which allow him to navigate his clients through the intricacies and complexities of global sport.

Brown is on the board of Cosworth Engineering, the global technology and engineering business and is also non-executive chairman of the Miami-based technology and multimedia company Motorsport.com