Biography

Rawad Kassis (1981-2015) owner and founder of Rk6sportsmanagement. Rawad was a businessman with a business educational background who started his sports career at Promosport SRL as football agent managing the Middle East region. After, and as football agent with a registered Lebanese license number 3, he created his own football agency in Italy, FKSports Management which was successfully sold to a Middle East investment group in 2008. During his sports career he served as sports and M&A advisor to several football Clubs and sports committees such Portsmouth FC, Al Ain FC, and Qatar Olympic Committee. Also he was known for his multiple media presence talking about the strategy behind football clubs spending millions on transfers and giving World Sport an insight into how agents negotiate football transfers. During the last years of his career, he joined Mangrove (business sports intelligence) to co-lead sports investment initiatives, and more specifically, he was the CEO of Kick Partners, a global leading football agency. He was known for the young Lebanese agent who represented Asamoah Gyan and one of the co-owner of the economical rights of Gerson Santos da silva(Roma).

As for his business career, he was a partner in a Swiss Lebanese commercial company working in the trade of raw materials with the Middle East countries mainly. He also run a Swiss global wealth and asset management firm. And not to forget that he setup an oil trading company, TR Oil Ltd (UK), where he acted as CEO. Rawad speaks 5 languages: Italian, English, French, Arabic and Spanish.

 
Raed Kassis Managing partner joined rk6sports management in 2012. Raed has a finance background working as a vice president and business development manager in a well-known Swiss wealth management company. he started working in the football field after acquiring his license number 22 from the Lebanese federation in 2012 and joined Kick Partners federated seasoned FIFA agents, as regional manager of the middle east area and sports consultant working on Contract negotiations, Sourcing of sponsoring opportunities, Players career management, talent management, marketing management, Coordination & cooperation with different members of the team till 2016. And not to forget that he was also involved in the negotiations to buy many European clubs/such as OM. Currently he is dedicated to rk6sportsmanagement as well he works in the healthcare field as a co-owner and manager of a medical center. Raed speaks 4 languages: French, Arabic, English and Italian.