Biographies of New Candidates for Election at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of

Sportradar Group AG

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 10:00 AM, Central European Summer Time

at the Company's offices at Feldlistrasse 2, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

(physical meeting)

Background Information:

With the exception of Charles John Robel, all other current members of the Board of Directors will stand for re-election at the 2023 AGM. Mr. Robel has decided that he will retire from the Board of Directors and not stand for re-election. In addition, the Board of Directors has proposed the election of two nominees, Ms. Rajani Ramanathan and Mr. William Kurtz, as new members of the Board of Directors.

Biographies of the incumbent candidates up for re-election can be found online at https://inves-tors.sportradar.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors.Below are the biographies for the two new nominees standing for election at the 2023 AGM.

Ms. Rajani Ramanathan Biography:

Ms. Ramanathan currently serves as an advisor and director to several public and private technology companies in the AI, VR, Blockchain, and connected (IoT) technology space. From June 2014 to present, Ms. Ramanathan has served as a member of the board of di-rectors of ESI Group, a French publicly traded company providing virtual prototyping software solutions and services. From July 2015 to July 2022, she chaired ESI's Technology and Marketing Committee and since September 2022 she has chaired ESI's Compensation Committee and the Nomination and Governance Com- mittee. Since June 2021, she has served on the board of Guidewire Software, a NYSE listed company offering an industry platform for property and casualty insurance carriers. She has served on their Compensation Committee and Risk Committee since June 2021 and as Chairperson of the Risk committee since October 2022. Since July 2022, Ms. Ramanathan has served on the board of Faro Technologies, a Nasdaq listed global leader in 4D digital reality solutions. She is a member of its Talent Development and Compensation Committee. Since October 2021, she has also served on the board of Hayden AI, a private company providing smart city solutions that developed the world's first autonomous traffic management platform. From June 2000 to March 2014, Ms. Ramanathan served in a variety of leadership roles at Salesforce, a cloud software company, most recently as its Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President - Technology and Products. From December 2021 to present, Ms. Ramanathan has served as Advisory Council Member, Cybersecurity Executive Education Program, California State University, Chico. In 2014, she was awarded the YWCA TWIN (Tribute to Women and Industry) Award, which has long been considered one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious awards honoring women who exemplify leadership excellence in executive-level positions.

The Company believes that Ms. Ramanathan is qualified to serve as a director based on her extensive background in the technology industry and business management and her independent service on the boards of several public companies in the technology sector.

Mr. William Kurtz Biography:

Mr. Kurtz is a senior financial and operations executive with over 30 years of experience operating as chief financial officer or chief operating officer at several private and public technology companies. Mr. Kurtz has most recently served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Ripcord, Inc., a records management and document intelligence company, from June 2021 to January 2022, and previously served as Chief Commercial & Financial Officer from January 2020 to June 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Kurtz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Bloom Energy Corporation, a manufacturer of on- site power generation platforms, from 2015 to January 2019, and then as a strategic advisor from January 2020 to January 2021. Prior to that, he served as Bloom's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 2008. Mr. Kurtz currently sits on the board of directors of Aterian Inc. (formerly Mo- hawk Group), a Nasdaq listed company where he serves as lead independent director and as a member of the audit, compensation, and nominating and corporate governance committees, and on the board of Ripcord, where he serves on the audit committee. Also, since September 2016 he has served on the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., a Nasdaq-listed analytics company, and he currently serves as chairman of its audit committee and as a member of the governance committee. Prior to 2008, Mr. Kurtz held the Chief Financial Officer or other senior finance roles for Novellus Systems (now Lam Research), En- genio Information Technologies, 3PARdata (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Scient Corporation, and AT&T Corporation. Mr. Kurtz previously served as the chairman of the audit committees of Violin Memory, PMC-Sierra (now part of Microsemi Corporation), and Redback Networks (now part of Ericsson).

The Company believes that Mr. Kurtz's financial expertise, as well as his extensive business and leadership experience, including his prior service as the chief financial officer of public companies and his service on the audit committees of several companies, qualifies Mr. Kurtz as a financial expert and further qualifies him to serve as a director.

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