Sophie Kotsopoulos

Sophie Kotsopoulos is Group Vice President, Integrated Marketing at the National Hockey League. Sophie builds global sport marketing activations that inspire and deliver against League priorities including but not limited to innovation, social impact, and growth. She drives League revenue through partner renewal and platform development and directs the strategic, long-term development of some of the NHL’s most complex marketing partnerships. She also leads a team responsible for driving scale-based advertising, sponsor activation and oversees third party program evaluation and research analysis. Prior to the NHL, Sophie started her 20+ year sales and marketing career at the BMW Group.

In addition to the GymCan board, she is a representative on the Canadian Marketing Association’s Sponsorship Council and a founding board member of Canada’s first chapter of Women In Sports and Events (WISE). A former competitive gymnast, Sophie competed provincially and shares her passion for the sport with her kids now enrolled in recreational gymnastics.