Adam Davis is the Chief Revenue Office for the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center, the No. 7-ranked performance venue in the world, and Executive Director of Partnerships for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment. Davis supports revenue goals and revenue potential surrounding HBSE’s vast, diverse global sports and entertainment properties, including the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Devils, Prudential Center, Team Dignitas esports franchise, NBA 2K’s 76ers Gaming Club, the Delaware Blue Coats G League Team, the Sixers Innovation Lab and more. For the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center, oversees all revenue streams, including ticket sales and services, premium and suite sales and services, and corporate partnership sales and services. He is routinely called on to play crucial leadership and project management roles in major company initiatives.  Davis was named to NJBiz and SportsBusiness Journal’s “Forty Under 40” lists in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Adam Harris is the Director of Custom Solutions for EMEA at Twitch. Adam is a commercial content specialist, bringing extensive experience in leading award-winning creative departments. Adam has worked in branded content across a number of industries including Sport, Entertainment, and Gaming. Prior to Twitch, Adam served as International Creative Director for Time Out where he established the company’s UK and US commercial content teams. Adam and his team at Twitch won the 2018 Digiday European Content Studio Of The Year Award and during his 15 years in this space, has accepted many other prestigious creative advertising awards for the likes of Google, Kellogg’s, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and British Airways. Adam is an advisory board member of the Branded Content Marketing Association.

MBA – Columbia Business School; BBA – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Danza is CEO of the Brazilian Rugby Union since February 2014, responsible for designing and implementing the 1^st long term strategy of the Union. Results so far are, Brazil men rising from 45^th to 25^th in the world, winning the South American Champions title in the process. Women qualifying as Core members to the World Series for the 1^st time and making the Top 10. Audiences of over 1M people with crowds of over 13.000 at stadiums. Selected strategic market by World Rugby in 2017.

He is Chairman of the Board at Pangea Advisors since June 2015, a Pro-Bono Consulting Firm working towards International Development, part of the Social Enterprise Group of the Columbia University. Danza is Case Team Leader at Bain & Company, where he worked for 8 years (2006-2014) solving complex strategic issues for Fortune 500 companies. Specialized in Growth Strategy, Turnaround Strategy and Organization. He has played rugby for 20+ years in Argentina.

Al Guido serves as the CEO and managing partner of Elevate Sports Ventures while concurrently serving President of the San Francisco 49ers – for which he was named on February 15, 2016. Guido, alongside HBSE CEO Scott O’Neil serving as co-managing partner, works to bring comprehensive business solutions to the sports and entertainment industry that identify new revenue opportunities and bring new, innovative ideas to market.

With nearly two decades in the sports industry, Guido has brought concepts to fruition alongside some of the best teams, leagues, brands, venues and owners across the business – inclusive of the realization of Levi’s® Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., record-setting SBL sales initiatives for the home of the San Francisco 49ers totalling more than $530 million, and industry record-breaking PSL sales for the Dallas Cowboys totalling over $600 million. Guido’s success also spans the National Hockey League, where the Phoenix Coyotes achieved the first revenue increases in the 10-year history of the franchise and finished in the top five in the NHL for new business sales.

A native of Washington Township, NJ, Guido began his career in the sports and entertainment industry with Comcast-Spectacor, owner and operator of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, AHL’s Philadelphia Phantoms, Comcast SportsNet and the Wachovia Complex. Guido later served as director of business development for the Lakewood Blueclaws (a minor-league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies).

Asma Al Thani is a Qatari female who strives to be a transformational leader that inspires and empowers other females to see that it is possible to follow their passions, achieve their dreams and be successful. She began her career at Ooredoo, Qatar’s leading telecoms service provider. In 2013, she was appointed the Director of Marketing and Communications of the Middle East’s first-ever Handball World Championships in Qatar in 2015.

She is now the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) which has included carrying out the same role at the 2015 World Boxing Championships, 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, IAAF Athletics World Championships- Doha 2019 as well as overseeing the QOC’s Rio 2016 Olympic campaign to inspire and engage the nation through Qatar’s Olympic heroes.

In April 2018, she joined a unique team of women from across Europe and the Arabian Peninsula to ski to the top of the world, becoming the 1^st Qatari person to ever ski to the North Pole. By overcoming this adversity as a team, the expedition aimed to demonstrate the importance of greater intercultural understanding and exchange, while at the same time highlighting the capability of women.

Chris Park is Executive Vice President, Product & Marketing for Major League Baseball. He oversees MLB’s digital product development, marketing, and international business development. During a prior stint with MLB, Chris was selected as a SportsBusiness Journal Forty Under 40 honoree in 2012. He has also worked for McKinsey & Co. and Facebook, and clerked for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Chris is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Family Caregiver Alliance. Chris lives in New York City with his wife Michelle Jang and their dog Russell.

Cynthia Mumbo is the Founder and CEO of Sports Connect Africa, a sports consultancy that focuses on connecting and empowering sports stakeholders in Africa. She has attended Wits University, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a Launch and Grow Fellow, at Babson College in Boston.

Cynthia served in the Executive Committee of the Kenya Basketball Federation as a co-opted member between 2009 and 2014. She is the Secretary General for the Kenya Basketball Women’s Commission and an advisory board member for the Hype Sports Innovation as well as a judge with the Sports Technology Awards| Start Ups. Cynthia has over 10 years of experience working in sales and marketing for, Sameer Africa (Firestone), Diageo and Menengai Oil Refineries.

Her community engagement involves youth basketball development and her hobbies are playing street basketball, music and reading.

Danny joined ELEVEN SPORTS as Group Managing Director from the start of the business in 2015 and has helped to develop one of the world’s most innovative independent global sports platforms. As Group MD Danny oversees activities across eleven global markets (Belgium, Luxembourg, Myanmar, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Taiwan, Singapore, UK and the U.S) and plays a key role in; market expansion, rights acquisitions, strategic decision making, meeting the needs of employees and the 17 million ELEVEN SPORTS subscribers across the world.

Before joining ELEVEN, Danny was global CEO at Infostrada Sports Group, a sport data and production company at which he turned around performance and prepared for its sale. Prior to that, Danny served as Managing Director of Eurosport across multiple territories.

Danny did his Masters of Science at Delft University of Technology and is an alumnus of INSEAD.

Dave Pietrycha joined NBC Sports Group as Chief Financial Officer in January 2013. He is responsible for the Finance & Accounting, Business Development, Sourcing, and Research functions for NBC Sports Group, which consists of NBC Olympics, NBC Sports, NBCSN, Golf Channel, GolfNow, Sports Engine, NBC Sports Digital, NBC Sports Radio and 9 NBC Regional Sports Networks. He reports directly to Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBC Broadcasting and Sports.

Previously, Pietrycha served in CFO roles for both NBC News and MSNBC from 2010-2012. Before that, he has held financial leadership roles within the NBC Owned Stations division, and graduated from the General Electric Experienced Financial Leadership Program. He began his career as a member of the Financial Leadership Development Program at BAE Systems, a global defense, security, and aerospace company.

Pietrycha graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Financial Economics from Saint Anselm College and holds an MBA from Bentley University. Earlier this year, Pietrycha was named one of SportsBusiness Journal’s “Forty Under 40” as one of the best and the brightest of the rising generation in sports business. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Dewayne Hankins serves as Chief Marketing Officer for the Portland Trail Blazers and Rose Quarter. In his current role, Hankins oversees overall brand strategy, innovation and corporate communications for the Trail Blazers and Rose Quarter. Hankins and his team’s work have been recognized by the NBA with the Digital Innovation Award in 2014 and 2016-18.

His executive role has also grown within Vulcan, Inc., parent company of the Trail Blazers, to include strategic direction for the marketing, digital media and advertising of Vulcan Arts + Entertainment. Previously, Hankins lead digital and social media for the LA Kings and AEG. A native of Lockport, Ill., Hankins is a graduate of Iowa State University, where he majored in communications. He and his wife, Gloria, and their sons, Hudson (6) and Grady (4), reside in Northwest Portland.

Dustin Godsey is entering his seventh season with the Milwaukee Bucks and third as Chief Marketing Officer, where he is responsible for the development and expansion of the Bucks brand. In his role, Godsey oversees the team’s marketing and advertising, content production, live events, promotions, and creative services, as well as marketing of the team’s new world-class arena in downtown Milwaukee. During his tenure, he has built an award-winning marketing team that has overseen a number of high-profile projects, including the team’s highly acclaimed rebrand in 2015.

Prior to joining the Bucks, Godsey spent seven years with Spectra Venue Services, most recently as Regional Marketing Director, where he was responsible for all event marketing and public relations efforts at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and oversaw the marketing departments at Spectra’s managed facilities in the Northeast region. He is a 2002 graduate of the University of Iowa with degrees in marketing and journalism.

As Head of Basketball Strategy & Analytics at the NBA, Evan oversees data and analytics for all on-court activities, including game tracking, player analytics, and referee performance. Evan also focuses on strategic initiatives targeted at innovating and improving the NBA game, such as scheduling, rules changes, competition issues, and technological enhancements.

Since joining the NBA in 2011, Evan has contributed across a range of key league business initiatives, including the development and evolution of the NBA’s revenue sharing plan and the negotiation of the league’s recent national media renewals.

Prior to joining the NBA, Evan received his M.B.A. from MIT Sloan, where he served as a co-lead of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

Jo is CEO of Tongue Tied- a sports management agency and production company where she is responsible for the careers of many of the highest profile sports and media stars in the UK, and producing some of the best content across the UK’s broadcast networks.

Setting up just three years ago the company is already one of the most highly respected management agencies and content creators in the UK. From moving players in the FAWSL to placing pundits, presenters and commentators at the World Cup, to producing her beloved 606 on the BBC, Jo is relentless in her pursuit of excellence.

She works tirelessly to increase equality and diversity in both sport and the media. She is a Trustee and Director of The Jason Roberts Foundation, the Michael Carrick Foundation and also a Director of Women in Football – a network of over 2,500 women working in professional football.

Jon Stainer is the Managing Director of Nielsen Sports’ biggest global business, overseeing its operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He took on the new role in January of 2018 after serving as Nielsen Sports’ Managing Director in the U.K. and Ireland. He has managed businesses through three acquisitions in his career, most notably Repucom’s acquisition of IFM Sports Marketing Surveys in 2012 and then Repucom’s sale to The Nielsen Company in 2016. Jon has exceptional major event experience having worked on three Olympic Games and two FIFA World Cups and has led client relationships with the likes of Premier League; McLaren; World Rugby; HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank. Jon brings a global perspective to the sports marketing industry and is often sought after as a speaker and commentator for conferences and sports business media.

Kelvin Smith is the Senior Associate Commissioner and General Counsel of the Big 12 Conference. As a member of the Conference’s senior management team, he oversees all operational legal matters as well as governance and compliance. Smith also helps lead many of the Conference’s initiatives related to revenue creation and maximization, particularly in the areas of media distribution and emerging technologies.

Smith joined the Big 12 from Learfield where he served as Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs. As the first person to occupy the in-house counsel position for the company, he was intimately involved in the negotiation of multi-media rights agreements with several of Learfield’s university and conference partners.  Prior to joining Learfield, Smith served as a corporate associate for the law firm King & Spalding and as a finance associate for the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. Smith is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

Dr. Mintas oversees Sportradar’s operations in the US and is a global thought leader on sports betting legislation, regulation and sports integrity. A lawyer by trade, Laila previously worked several years at the international law firm White & Case LLP and specialized in Sports Law and Gambling, Compliance and Litigation. She wrote her Ph.D. in Betting via the Internet which became a well-recognized book in its field.

Previously, she was the Head of Legal and Head of International Development for FIFA’s Early Warning System and Director of Sports Integrity at CONCACAF, the governing body for Soccer in North America, Central America and Caribbean. Since 2009, she has published a significant number of law articles in the top academic and professional journals about sports betting and sports law and has lectured at Humboldt University of Berlin and Columbia University in New York where she is a Professor for Global Sports Law. Laila is Board member of the ‘World Sports Advocate’ and has her own Sports Law Column at InsideWorldFootball.com.

Louise is Chief Executive Officer of Fuse EMEA / UK, a leading marketing agency and part of Omnicom Media Group (OMG) working across sport, entertainment, cause and culture. In just 7.5 years, Louise has moved up the ranks and is the youngest MD across OMG UK and sits on multiple boards.

Louise has tripled the agency to a team of 210 regionally, servicing 10 of the top 30 brands in the world. The agency is currently retained by Nissan, PepsiCo, UniCredit, The Walt Disney Company, Santander, Royal London, Vodafone UK and Tuborg. As a result, Fuse is becoming one of the largest and most respected agencies in the sports marketing industry and beyond.

Louise has over 17 years’ experience in sport and entertainment marketing and has worked in agency and client positions including Vodafone Global and RBS Group, activating properties across 20+ markets.

Malcolm has worked within the sports industry for 15 years.  A Law graduate he has most recently risen through the ranks at The R&A, golf’s governing body having previously worked at Acushnet Europe as the European Marketing Manager for golf’s biggest equipment manufacturer.  He joined The R&A in 2007 and was tasked with building the organisation’s in house Communications and Marketing functions.  Malcolm was a key member of the team that oversaw golf’s return to the Olympic Games, leading the communications for the International Golf Federation from 2011 – 2016 and golf’s media team at Rio 2016.

Malcolm now leads the Sales and Marketing teams at The R&A with a primary focus on The Open Championship, golf’s oldest and most international major championship.  He was the architect of the recent award-winning rebrand of The Open and is responsible for the Championship’s key revenue lines of Ticketing and Hospitality and leading The Open’s brand, marketing and digital strategy.

Mark is Founder and CEO of Sports Data Labs, a San Francisco-based technology company that enables in-game capture, analysis and distribution of real-time Human Data™ for athlete and team consumption, as well as other business and consumer applications. To date, SDL data has been utilized for live broadcast in over 155 countries by media organizations including Eurosport, Fox Sports, beIN Sports, Facebook, Sony Ten, BT Sport and SuperSport.

Mark’s unique intersection of technology, media and monetization within the sports ecosystem has positioned SDL at the forefront of solving foundational issues to unlock the full value of data for rights holders globally. Prior to SDL, Mark served as Senior Vice President, International Corporate Development & Global Head of Partnerships at MP&Silva, and previously held other senior roles across Asia, Europe and the US with the National Basketball Association and IMG, where he started off his career as a tennis agent. A Detroit native, Mark is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Matthew has over a decade’s experience connecting brands and audiences through great products and digital experiences. Prior to joining the Sports and Entertainment industry, Matthew was a Partner at Simplikate, a tech startup where he built and grew an award-winning mobile app development platform used by companies like Verizon, Mandarin Oriental, Westfield Malls and more. Following a successful exit, Matthew went on to lead Product Development for Phunware, an industry leader in mobile solutions for Fortune 500 companies including Fox, NBC and WWE. Now with the Miami HEAT, Matthew’s impact on executing the franchise’s mobile-centric, technology-driven mandate has been immediate and wide-ranging. From implementing mobile only entry for all HEAT home games to unveiling a best-in-class mobile app to parsing analytics that inform real time business decisions—Jafarian has brought all his tech savvy know-how to downtown Miami.

Matthew Porter has been Chief Executive of the Professional Darts Corporation since January 2008, as well as a director of the PDC’s parent company, Matchroom Sport.

During that time, he has overseen the progress of the sport to unprecedented levels where it now pays out in excess of £12m prize money annually and has introduced a structure which provides a pathway from picking up a dart for the first time to being crowned World Champion, with the introduction of Development and Challenge Tours, as well as a World Series for elite players.

Porter was Chief Executive of Leyton Orient FC when the club was owned by Matchroom, as well as serving on the board of The Football League. In 2006 he was appointed as the youngest chief executive in English football by O’s chairman Barry Hearn, aged just 26. His appointment coincided with the Club’s promotion to League 1 and he oversaw their progression to an established side in the division which included narrowly missing out on promotion at the end of the 2013/14 season before the Club was sold.

Megha is responsible for legal, people development, information technology and stadium capital planning.  Since joining the Jaguars, Megha has worked on team-owner Shahid Khan’s acquisition of Fulham Football Club, over $170 million in improvements to TIAA Bank Field (including two spas and the world’s largest outdoor video boards) and the 2017 opening of amphitheater and covered football field.  Megha has also worked on the extension of stadium naming rights and selection and engagement of new food, beverage and merchandise providers.

Prior to the Jaguars, Megha worked in the New York office of Proskauer, which is an international law firm known for its sports practice.  Megha joined Proskauer in 2009 after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Megha serves on the boards of the Jaguars Foundation, Florida Sports Foundation and the Sports Business & Leadership Association and works with Women in Sports and Events.

Megha was named in 2012 and 2013 to Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Sports List.  Megha has also been named a Woman of Influence (2014), Ultimate Attorney (2016) and to the Sports Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 (2018) since coming to Jacksonville.

Serving as the commissioner of the Overwatch League and the head of product for all Overwatch Esports, Nate Nanzer leads the cross-discipline Esports programs for the popular team-based action game from Blizzard Entertainment. Nate began developing plans for an Overwatch Esports program in his spare time while working in Blizzard’s marketing department, and has now turned that passion into a full-time role. He oversees the strategy, development, and execution of Overwatch Esports for all levels of play (including: the Overwatch League, Overwatch World Cup, Contenders, Open Division, and Tespa), and is responsible for everything from partnerships to competition rules.

Nate has been a featured speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference, DICE, SXSW, PromaxGAMES Summit and JP Morgan Tech Exchange, among other Esports, sports and business conferences. He was also among a handful of industry leaders invited to speak at the International Olympic Committee’s and Global Association of International Sports Federations’ first-ever Esports forum.

Nick is the Chief Commercial Officer at COPA90, responsible for leading and delivering the commercial strategy of the business. Central to this strategy and Nick’s role, is the development of long term relationships with agency groups, platforms, rights holders and broadcasters – all of whom value the global football fan connectivity that COPA90 enables via content, media and data.

Nick has been with COPA90 for over five years, and helped the business along the journey from a YouTube channel in its earliest days to today’s modern football media business and brand, with original content and audiences across a range of global platforms and partners.

Prior to COPA90, Nick held corporate development and strategy roles with Dazed & Confused, News Corporation and Deloitte. He holds an MBA from London Business School and University of California Berkeley.

Nina King is the Deputy Director of Athletics for Administration/Legal Affairs and Chief of Staff at Duke University. In this role, King facilitates daily operation/oversight of the department, coordinates strategic planning initiatives, and manages the creation/execution of all department contracts while serving as the liaison to the University Senior Administration, Board of Trustees and Legal Counsel Office.

King also supervises Recreation/Physical Education and has sport oversight for football, women’s basketball, and cross country/track and field. Additionally, she co-teaches at the Fuqua School of Business with Vice President and Director of Athletics, Kevin White. King championed the creation and launch of The Rubenstein-Bing ACE program in 2015, a collaboration between Stanford University and Duke for global civic engagement involving student-athletes from both institutions.

She is a member of several Duke University committees, serves on the NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee and the Arizona State University College of Law’s Sports Law and Business Program Advisory Board.

King holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Tulane Law School.

Rory Brown, president of Bleacher Report, has positioned the brand to reshape the way millennial males consume content, moving from a website that reports aggregated sports news to a publisher that provokes conversation at the crossroads of sport and culture.

He established an industry-leading game plan to create and distribute social-first content that sparked unprecedented levels of engagement with the brand’s core millennial audience. B/R consistently as a top publisher in driving social engagement across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

He’s grown B/R to be a leader in the industry by disrupting and revolutionizing content experiences and cultivating a coveted, loyal millennial male audience. He’s made strategic decisions to further invest in B/R’s people and foster growth, doubled down on “owning the moment” across platforms, and constructed a branded content team that creates compelling, integrated experiences sponsors want to buy into.

Brown joined Bleacher Report in 2008 as an assignment desk editor and quickly rose through the ranks. He has served as chief content office, vice president of content operations, senior director of content operations and director of programming.

Stephen is the LTA’s Director of International Events and Professional Game, overseeing all the LTA’s professional events, including the Fever-Tree Championships at The Queen’s Club and the Nature Valley sponsored events in Eastbourne, Birmingham and Nottingham.  He combines this role with his position as Tournament Director of the Fever-Tree Championships, the premier pre-Wimbledon grass court event, and also leads for the LTA on its relationships with all the international tennis governing bodies.  Stephen is a member of the ATP European Group Board.

Stephen has led the Fever-Tree Championships team since 2013, including overseeing the elevation of the event to an ATP 500 tournament, the rejuvenation and development of the on-site hospitality offering and, notably, the successful project to expand the capacity of the Centre Court at Queen’s by 30% from 2017. During this period, the tournament won the ATP Tournament of the Year Award, as voted for by the players of the ATP, for four consecutive years from 2013 – 2016.

Toby joined City Football Group (CFG) in 2014, initially as Head of Marketing Communications, before moving to a broader role, overseeing all non-football communications for the Group, its six clubs and related businesses. CFG includes Premier League Champions Manchester City and Major League Soccer’s New York City FC. Toby has been at the forefront of developing the narrative for CFG, an original model in the world’s biggest and favourite sport, as well as helping to drive a season-long behind the scenes documentary on Amazon Prime; All or Nothing: Manchester City.

Prior to joining City, a non-practising barrister, Toby’s experience spanned public affairs, PR and strategic communications in roles at Weber Shandwick, Linklaters and the Bar Council. He was named in PR Week’s 29 under 29 in 2010.

Vanessa Shay is the first female vice president of sales for the Global Partnerships division of AEG, one of the largest sports and entertainment companies in the world. Acting as an internal agency for AEG, GP oversees worldwide sponsorship sales and activation for over 135 world-class platforms across five continents, including venues, sports franchises, events, tours, and festivals among other AEG holdings. In her role within AEG’s most profitable division, Shay is charged with identifying unique opportunities for international brands to access AEG’s world-class sports and entertainment properties and venues. She personally oversees and manages a portfolio of numerous AEG partners and sponsors as well as multiple assets, including L.A. LIVE, STAPLES Center, L.A. LIVE events, the Amgen Tour of California, and more. She’s also responsible for leading a department with an annual budget of $19 million and supports Global Partnerships reaching global revenues of more than $500 million.

Zarah’s career has spanned multiple factions of the sports industry from agency to Governing Body to broadcaster to Organising Committees. In the world of Olympics she spent several years immersed in track and field, for UK Athletics’ then agency Fast Track before moving to Melbourne to lead the marketing and communications team at Athletics Australia.

Following the Olympics in 2012, Zarah returned to London and joined the Sky Sports marketing team, working on their British & Irish Lions campaign. Staying in rugby she then led the marketing for England 2015, the organising committee for Rugby World Cup 2015. One record-breaking world cup to another she took her knowledge and experience from the world of rugby into cricket for the ICC Women’s World Cup and the ICC Champions Trophy. Now, from fast bowling to the fast lane, Zarah is part of the commercial team at Formula 1.