Peter Lazarus to Join IMG as Senior Vice President, Sports & Entertainment Business Development and Sales; Seasoned Leader Brings Proven Track Record in Olympics, Golf, Tennis and NFL Business Development and Sales

Business Wire, Sept 13, 2006

NEW YORK -- IMG, the world's leading sports, entertainment and media company, today announced that Peter Lazarus will be joining IMG on October 8, 2006 as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Sales, IMG Sports & Entertainment. Lazarus will report to George Pyne, President, IMG Sports & Entertainment, and will oversee business development and sales in North America, working closely with all of IMG's divisions. Lazarus will be based in New York.

"This is another important step in our strategy to successfully grow IMG worldwide and to expand IMG's leadership position in sports, entertainment and media," commented Ted Forstmann, IMG Chairman & CEO. "Peter is a highly experienced sales professional with a proven ability to motivate and lead a successful team. We are delighted he is joining IMG to spearhead our business development and sales efforts in North America."

"Peter comes to us from NBC where he managed a team of 40 sales professionals with annual sales well over $1 billion. His broad experience overseeing a wide-range of sports properties from Olympics to golf, tennis and the NFL make him a perfect match with IMG," said Pyne. "Peter is a recognized leader in the sports industry and we look forward to the many contributions he will make at IMG."

Lazarus commented, "I am thrilled to be joining IMG at such an exciting time for the Company. Ted Forstmann's vision and strategy for growing IMG is very compelling. I look forward to working with Ted, George and the Sports & Entertainment management team to implement the vision and fully maximize the potential of all of IMG's brands, properties and assets."

Lazarus served most recently as Senior Vice President of Sales, NBC Universal Sports & Olympic Sales where he oversaw the sales operations for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and directed the merger of the NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and USA Sports sales units. He spearheaded NBC's nearly $2 billion sales effort for the 2006 Torino and 2004 Athens Games, a record for Olympic advertising sales. Before that, Lazarus served as the Director of Olympic Sales and was a member of the sales team for the Salt Lake Games that generated $740 million in sales. Earlier in his career with NBC he worked as a Television Network Account Executive in Sports and as an Account Executive for primetime.

Prior to his tenure with NBC, Lazarus was a Vice President at Young & Rubicam Inc., where he launched a sports buying group with clients such as AT&T, US Army, Lincoln Mercury, KFC, and Cadbury Beverages. He has also held positions at Lowe and Partners/SMS and Backer, Spielvogel, Bates.

Lazarus graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.A. in Communications. He was named one of SportsBusiness Journal's "Forty Under 40" most promising young executives in the sports business in 2006.

About IMG

IMG is the world's premier Sports, Entertainment and Media Company. IMG is a diversified global business with two major business segments: IMG Sports & Entertainment, and IMG Media. IMG employs over 2,300 people in 30 countries. Forstmann Little & Co. purchased IMG in 2004.

IMG Sports & Entertainment includes: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, European football, rugby, cricket, motorsports, coaching, Olympic sports and action sports. In addition, IMG Academies are the world's largest and most advanced, state-of-the-art, multi-sport training and educational facility, delivering world-class sports training experiences to over 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult and professional athletes each year.

IMG Media, which includes our content production subsidiaries TWI, Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) and Tiger Aspect Productions (TAP), is recognized as a global leader in the delivery of traditional and new media content and services, with Internet, broadband and mobile expertise, transforming how audiences access and interact with content.

IMG Media produces and distributes over 10,000 hours of sports, documentary, drama, comedy, entertainment, popular factual and children's content annually, over multiple platforms across 200 countries, including award-winning television and radio programming. It also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world's premier sporting events and has the world's biggest sports archive with more than 200,000 hours of footage.

More information about IMG is available at www.imgworld.com, www.darlowsmithson.com and www.tigeraspect.co.uk.