Jose Messina, Managing Director of Kentaro Figer, joint venture in Brazil of Kentaro and Figer Group

Jose Lorenzo Messina has been appointed Managing Director of the Brazilian media and marketing rights agency Kentaro Figer, on the 05/12/2013. Kentaro Figer is a joint subsidiary in Brazil, of the Swiss agency Kentaro and their Brazilian counterpart Grupo Figer, created in 2012.

Jose Messina has extensive professional experience in the field of media and sport in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. He also held the positions of sales director of the telecommunications group Telefonica, executive director of telecommunications group TIM (Telecom Italia), and sales director of the agency Koch Tavares.

Jose Messina then formed his own media and marketing rights agency, Unideias, working on numerous projects with major Brazilian sports sponsoring companies.

"We felt it essential that our JV in Brazil was headed by an experienced and well-­connected Brazilian and in Jose we feel we have found exactly the right man. We intend to grow our business in Brazil based on our core business competencies in event creation, club consultancy, player trading and of course media rights sales and…