FUTRSPRT
385 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHost Bram Weinstein interviews sports and tech industry leaders to discuss the modernization of the sports experience from branding, team building, connectivity to fans and content creation.
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John Pollard, Head of Sports Zebra Technologies
January 11, 2021 18:23 - 36 minutesJohn Pollard discusses the genesis of and the future for the NFL's Next Gen Stats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Future of Youth Sports Part 3
January 08, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutesIn in our third and final part of a series on the future of youth sports, we are joined by: Bethany Henderson, America SCORES President/DC SCORES CEO, John Guzman DC SCORES alum and the Director of strategy and logistics for the DC public school system, CJ Beatty, former professional baseball player and mentor/motivational speaker for young athletes in baseball and softball. They discuss the importance of Equitable access to sports to society at large. This series was produced in conjunction ...
The Future of Youth Sports Part 2
January 06, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutesIn part 2 of our 3 part series in conjunction with LeagueApps, we discuss the the business of doing good through youth sports accessibility. Guests on this panel are: Shawna Burtscher, Audi Head of Experiential Marketing Sana Shuaib, Major League Soccer, VP of Partnership Marketing Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, Olympic Gold Medalist, former CEO of Laureus Sport for Good USA and President of FundPlay & Head of Community/Impact at LeagueApps LeagueApps - Sports League & Team Management Software...
The Future of Youth Sports Part 1
January 04, 2021 16:25 - 26 minutesIn part one of a 3 part series in conjunction with LeagueApps, Renata Simril, CEO LA84 Foundation and Jeremy Goldberg, President LeagueApps have a discussion on the state of youth sports after a year of shutdowns due to a global pandemic. LeagueApps - Sports League & Team Management Software Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kevin Gehsmann, Tim Skapek Co-founders Ptoect3d
December 31, 2020 13:00 - 17 minutesFormer Duke football players created a company that custom fit protective devices for their teammates and now have a company that may outfit locker rooms all over the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kevin Gehsmann, Tim Skapek Co-founders Protect3d
December 31, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutesFormer Duke football players created a company that custom fit protective devices for their teammates and now have a company that may outfit locker rooms all over the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
JIm Huether, CEO Hyperice
December 28, 2020 16:45 - 26 minutesJIm Huether discusses the ways that his recovery and motion technologies learned how to become hip and functional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jim Huether, CEO Hyperice
December 28, 2020 16:45 - 26 minutesJim Huether discusses the ways that his recovery and motion technologies learned how to become hip and functional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Lopes, CEO Catapult
December 24, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutesWill Lopes was the former Chief Revenue Officer at Audible. Now he brings that consumer based vision to Catapult with eyes on growing the still nascent wearable technology market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joey Levy, co-founder Simplebet
December 21, 2020 15:08 - 25 minutesJoey Levy, co-founder Simplebet is building a company that is growing the in game micro betting markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Navin Singh, Chief Commercial Officer USGA Shaka Arnon GM WSC Sports North America
December 17, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutesNavin Singh, Chief Commercial Officer USGA and Shaka Arnon, GM WSC Sports North America discuss their collaboration to turn the multitude of content pieces from a singular golf event into an array of options for the fan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meredith McPherron, CEO/Managing Partner Drive by DraftKings
December 14, 2020 14:52 - 25 minutesMeredith McPherron is helping the VC arm of fantasy platform DraftKings spearhead the investment of sports technology into the future with Drive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Thomas, CEO ZenSports
December 10, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutesMark Thomas is building a market where cryptocurrency will be used for sports fans who are looking for a new betting marketplace and hopes to find partnerships with teams and leagues to cultivate a new transactional marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zane Schweitzer, Ultimate Waterman, Author, Environmentalist
December 07, 2020 14:41 - 31 minutesZane Schweitzer is a 15 time winner of world championship events of ocean sports. He travels the globe normally to compete but this year is different which has led to different endeavors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cordero Barkley, Dir. of Finance and Investments Titletown Tech
December 03, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutesCordero Barkley discusses what interests the financial arm of major sports grands like the Packers have in the marketplace and they are certainly not all in the sports world. Plus, getting companies to move to Wisconsin is not as difficult a sell as you might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aubrey Levy, VP of Content and Marketing theScore
November 30, 2020 15:27 - 22 minutesAubrey Levy, VP of Content and Marketing at theScore discusses the content companies decision to go all in on sports gambling as the markets continue to legalize in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dalton Kellett, IndyCar Driver
November 23, 2020 15:20 - 18 minutesIndyCar series driver Dalton Kellett talks about an unusual year to have a rookie season on the circuit and his collaborations with schools across the country teaching STEM through racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marcus Baur, Former Olympic Sailor, Entrepreneur
November 19, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutesMarcus Baur performed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic games. Now he is an entrepreneur helping with technology to grow the sport of sailing. Marcus helped create the Sail Insight App Powered by SAP, a new mobile app designed for the global sailing community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric Stark, COO Slate
November 16, 2020 18:14 - 27 minutesEric Stark took his experience working for the NFL and the SF 49ers into the founding of Slate which is designed to help teams, leagues and brands meet their digital marketing and media needs in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Baron Davis, Entrepreneur, former NBA Star
November 12, 2020 13:00 - 19 minutesFormer NBA star guard Baron Davis has become a serial entrepreneur in the sports tech field,. We discuss when he decided to start investment, what he looks for, and his latest interest in UNest, an app that helps families understanding wealth building. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nigel Eccles, CEO Flick, co-founder FanDuel
November 09, 2020 15:51 - 23 minutesNIgel Eccles is helping influencers and teams brings their fans together on game day with his new venture Flick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brent Schoeb, CRO San Francisco 49ers
November 05, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutesBrent Schoeb, Chief Revenue Officer of the SF 49ers joins the show to discuss a new partnership with Visa to make Levi's Stadium cashless, other innovations in the works and living through the pandemic with a pro sports team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yuchiang Cheng, Media President Topgolf
November 02, 2020 14:51 - 22 minutesYuchiang Cheng has taken experience creating the world golf tour and working with Virgin and the World Poker Tour to golf and social venue Topgolf to expand their reach with fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Parker Kligerman, Nascar driver, eSports gamer, entrepreneur
October 29, 2020 12:00 - 25 minutesParker Kligerman discusses the year in motorsports including the exposure IRacing got due to the pandemic and what it could mean for the future of esports in the motorsports space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Phil Southerland and Todd Furneaux, Founders Supersapiens
October 26, 2020 14:56 - 31 minutesPhil Southerland grew up diabetic but became a world class endurance cyclist.. He and partner Todd Furneaux created Supersapiens to help others monitor glucose in real time and in turn help those struggling with the disease get the most out of their bodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Silver, CEO Synergy Sports
October 22, 2020 12:00 - 21 minutesMark Silver, CEO Synergy Sports discusses how bringing together three tech companies has helped his group become a leader in the space of video data collection and distribution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Geoff Reiss, GM Yahoo Sports
October 19, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutesGeoff Reiss, GM of Yahoo Sports joins the podcast to discuss new partnerships with BetMGM and other forays into the sports gambling landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joe De Perio, Founder Sport BLX/PJ Washington, Charlotte Hornets Rookie
October 15, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutesJoe De Perio is working with Hornets rookie PJ Washington to offer a unique investment vehicle where fans or investors could into PJ as a business using his early career earnings as essentially venture capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian Levenson, Author "Shift Your Mind"
October 12, 2020 15:10 - 27 minutesPerformance coach Brian Levenson released his latest book, "Shift Your Mind" which discusses 9 mental shifts athletes and executives do to succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Angelina Lawton, CEO Sportsdigita
October 08, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutesAngelina Lawton's company Sportsdigita has recreated the pitch deck in a modern way to help sales staffs across the globe stays competitive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rowdy Gaines, US Olympic Hall of Fame Swimmer, NBC Broadcaster
October 05, 2020 17:44 - 22 minutesRowdy Gaines won gold medals as a US Olympic swimmer from 1978-1984 setting numerous world records. He has become one of the best analysts on NBC's coverage of the Olympic games since. Today he joins the pod to discuss how the athletes deal with losing these past Olympic games, how they continue to train and his goal of emphasizing the need to safely re-open pools worldwide during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paul Balsom, Head of Performance Innovation Leicester City
October 01, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutesPaul Balsom works with some of the best soccer players in the world on the club and international level. He discusses modern training and achieving top level performance while stuck in a pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scott San Emeterio, CEO Ballstreet Trading
September 28, 2020 13:41 - 21 minutesScott San Emeterio created an app that allows users to real time trade the fast changing sports marketplace in game not unlike how day traders work the stock markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erin and Lee Hanson, Guardian Caps
September 24, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutesErin and Lee Hanson have created a protection device that goes over a helmet and helps limit the amount of exposure to potential head injury. They discuss the science behind it, who they are working with and the issues getting parties to be interested due to a variety of reasons that don't include safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Fingerman, CEO Photoshelter, Tyler Steinhardt, Dir. of Marketing Premiere Lacrosse League
September 21, 2020 17:19 - 21 minutesAndrew Fingerman's company Photoshelter is solving the speed and efficiency problem of taking professionally curated content and turning it around to reach social feeds of sports players, teams and leagues in the blink of an eye. Tyler Steinhardt, Director of Marketing at the Premiere Lacrosse League joins the conversation to discuss how the PLL is partnered with the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeff Morin, CEO Liteboxer/Mike Piha, CEO HitCheck
September 17, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutesJeff Morin and his team created a modern boxing workout at your home that brings the ability to spar to your home gym. Mike Piha's company HitCheck is helping diagnose head injury quickly and efficiently on the sideline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dan Ghosh-Roy, Chief Digital Officer Professional Fighters League
September 14, 2020 14:44 - 22 minutesDan Ghosh-Roy is using his experience marketing entertainment and musicians for Complex and transitioning it to the Professional Fighters League where marketing of combat sports is being rethought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kelli Seely, CMO Special Olympics
September 10, 2020 12:00 - 25 minutesKelli Seely and her team are navigating the pandemic and shutdown of competition and local sports as they continue to hope to shine a light on the special Olympics and all of it's humane benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jarrett Sims and Peter Stein, Turn2 Equity Partners
September 07, 2020 13:26 - 22 minutesJarrett Sims and Peter Stein are hoping to find investment for current and former baseball players and help MLB market it's assets in new modern ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dan Bravato, President SeventySix Capital Spirts Advisory
September 03, 2020 12:00 - 25 minutesDan Bravatio is helping one of the leading sports content and tech venture firms find investment in the modern sports landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Moon Javaid, VP Strategy and Analytics San Francisco 49ers
August 31, 2020 12:00 - 21 minutesMoon Javaid is charged with helping the 49ers improve the fan experience even in a time where fans may be prohibited from interacting with the NFL in person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Foley, CEO Lets Get Checked/Rob Bouw, Director of Sales, FitLight
August 27, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutesPeter Foley is working with top golfer Rory McIlroy to help bring rapid testing to the sports world and general public. Little did they know when the business began, they'd have to service people looking for answers to navigating a pandemic. Rob Bouw explains how the simple innovative products at FitLight help athletes of all skill level improve their hand eye coordination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Angela Ruggiero, Hockey Hall of Famer/Co-Founder Sports Innovation Lab
August 24, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutesAngela Ruggiero was a world class Olympic athlete who transitioned into leadership with the IOC and modern entrepreneur with her company the Sports Innovation Lab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kate Courtney, USA Olympian, Mountain Biking
August 20, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutesKate Courtney discusses the postponement of the Olympics and her mission to help athletes and amateurs understand concussions and head injuries better through a virtual journey through the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Conti, eNascar iRacing World Champion
August 17, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutesMichael Conti came from humble beginnings to become one of the most prolific iRacers in the world.. He discusses his journey and the explosion in interest in eSports since he started competing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dave DuPont, CEO/Co-Founder Teamsnap
August 13, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutesDave DuPont has built a solution for parents, kids, coaches and leagues to coordinate their youth sports leagues. Now they have the ultimate challenge, navigating how to keep kids active when the league's are partially or fully shut down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Karri Zaremba, Founder/COO Venuetize
August 10, 2020 13:46 - 19 minutesKarri Zaremba is helping teams use their venues to learn more about their fans and customers and help the experience by streamlining transactions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris Erb, CEO Tripleclix
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutesTripleClix CEO Chris Erb has a lengthy background in gaming and has used that experience to help the industry become one of the most marketable industries in entertainment with massive brand outreach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nancy Hensley, Chief Product Marketing Officer Stats Perform
August 03, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutesNancy Hensley takes her wealth of data knowledge working for major corporations like IBM and McDonalds and joins Stats Perform to help produce the latest in sports analytics and data incorporation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeff Heckman Global Director of E-Commerce Topps
July 23, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutesJeff Heckman discusses how the trading card and collectible industry has modernized to keep the old collector and modern enthusiast engaged and interested in a variety of products.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices