Revenue Above Replacement

Tony Schiller

Tony Schiller has 25+ years in the sports and entertainment marketing industry with a successful track record of building sustainable marketing platforms and relationships. His strengths include innovation, relationship building, strategic vision, building dynamic, measurable programs, and intense, being a results-oriented negotiator. Most importantly, he's always focused on creating and maintaining a healthy culture that promotes trust, open communication, and reliable, enjoyable teamwork.
Clients have included Continental/United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Holiday Inn, Sears, Gatorade, One A Day Vitamins, Alka Seltzer, Bayer, Gillette, Sharpie, PNC Bank, Lucent Technologies, Reliant Energy, Giant Eagle et al.
Tony has worked with the MLB, NFL, NBA, PGA, NASCAR, NCAA, USOC, and most sports properties from little league up to the pros. Additionally, he's had intensive experience in music, entertainment, arts, and media marketing channels.
Tony advises start ups in the area of capital raise, revenue generation, strategic partnerships and operations. Start ups including Pogo Seats, Sports Lock, Gain Fitness, Passion House Roasters, Golf Miles, vStream, Fan Footage, Triax Technologies, a Upfront Analytics, CashMusic.org and Whetstone Winery. Advisor to Enterprise Ireland.

Chuck Baker

Charles Baker is Co-Chair of O’Melveny’s Sports Industry Group. Chuck’s corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital transactions, with a core focus in the sports, media and consumer sectors.
Chuck has represented buyers and sellers of sports franchises in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, and many of the European football leagues. Most recently, Chuck represented David Tepper, founder and president of global hedge fund Appaloosa Management, in his acquisition of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers.
Chuck has been featured by dozens of national publications and other media outlets as a thought leader in the fields of sports and entertainment law, and is also a frequent public speaker on those topics. Most recently, The American Lawyer named Chuck to its prestigious 2019 “Dealmakers of the Year” list. He was also profiled in Variety’s 2018 and 2017 “Dealmakers Elite New York,” a feature spotlighting the most important players in the fields of law, finance, representation, and executive leadership.
Chuck has been recognized nationally for sports law in the last six editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which has described him as a “very strong practitioner” who is “well connected, incredibly bright and just able to get the deal closed” with “tremendous experience and know-how in the sports space.”
He was also recognized by Law360 in 2015 and 2016 for his stellar M&A and sports law work, and by the Global M&A Network for his work on the sale of the Atlanta Hawks NBA team, naming it the “2015 USA Deal of the Year” at its prestigious M&A Atlas Awards. In 2016, he was featured in Sports Business Journal’s “Power Players: Sports Lawyers & Outside Counsel” 2016 list.
Chuck, who holds a JD from Cornell University, is a Distinguished Lecturer at NYU’s Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business. He is also a member of the University of Miami School of Law’s Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law board. Chuck also served as a staff associate for former Senator Bill Bradley.
He is active at the board level with the March of Dimes and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and previously with USA Triathlon.

Chris Cabott

Chris Cabott is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Steinberg Sports & Entertainment and oversees all aspects of the company’s finances, internal operations and is a certified NFL agent on all SSE athlete contracts. Originally from Philadelphia, Chris is an attorney, certified National Football League Player Agent and has extensive experience in the entertainment industry. Throughout his career, Chris has negotiated over $500 million in client contracts.
In addition, Chris has over 92 gold and platinum records to his name and has worked on a number of feature films. In 2016, Chris was honored as the first professional to ever in one calendar year sign a first round draft pick, land a major record label deal for a recording artist, and negotiate a life rights option with a major film studio. Chris has also helped a number of athletes become successful in the entertainment industry with one of the most notable examples Jimmy Rollins and Jimmy Rollins Entertainment Group; where Chris created a music publishing company for Jimmy and helped him become the first athlete to ever turn a profit in the music industry.
Leigh Steinberg says that Chris Cabott is the next super agent. This billing comes at no surprise considering Chris’ resume and success.
Chris is an adjunct instructor at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, where he teaches sports law. He is the coauthor of "Keeping Out the Little Guy: An Older Contract Advisor’s Concern, a Younger Contract Advisor’s Lament" (2005) in the Villanova Law Journal and The Legal and Business Aspects of Sport Management (2012 Kendall Hunt Publishers). Both publications address the laws and rules governing the representation of NFL athletes. He is a member of the American Bar Association Forum on Sports and Entertainment Law and Sports Lawyers Association.

Mark French

French has created and operated multiple disruptive businesses in the sports, consumer goods, media and technology industries.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer and on the Board of Directors for X2 PERFORMANCE®. Previous ventures include Mission, The Players'​ Tribune, and NBCUniversal.
Mark is a Founding Partner of MISSION and Inventor of Court Grip, an NBA endorsed, patented traction-enhancing formula and delivery system that Mark developed with NBA Legend Dwyane Wade. Mark and his team also launched EnduraCool a revolutionary instant-cooling product line. Mark worked closely with partners Serena Williams, Dwyane Wade, Drew Brees, Carmelo Anthony, Reggie Bush, Georges St. Pierre, etc. on the development and marketing of MISSION's product lines. MISSION was acquired in 2017.
Mark is partnered with Bunim / Murray Productions and CAA Sports where Mark is developing television properties with world-class athlete partners.
Mark is a member of Derek Jeter’s Board of Advisors for The Players’ Tribune. Mark is helping Jeter and partners (Steph Curry, Kobe Bryant, Russell Wilson, etc.) with strategy, athlete relations, fundraising, marketing, and recruiting.
Mark was an accomplished media intrapreneur. As the Founder/GM of NBC’s Universal’s alternative media division, NBC Everywhere, Mark developed a national OOH network featuring screens in taxis, trains, gas pumps, etc. delivering 3BB annual captive mobile impressions.
Mark serves on the Board of NFTE and is a delegate for Pope Francis' Sport At The Service of Humanity global initiative.

John Kosner

John Kosner is an internet pioneer and 40-year veteran of sports media. Today, he is president of Kosner Media, a digital media and sports consultancy. In 2018, John and the late NBA Commissioner Emeritus David Stern created Micromanagement Ventures, a portfolio of sports technology start ups focused on media, betting, and player health. John continues to serve as an advisor to and an investor in the fifteen companies in Micromanagement Ventures. He is also a popular moderator and panelist at industry events and webinars.
Previously, John led ESPN digital media from 2003-2017, after stints at Sports Illustrated, the NBA, CBS Sports, and NBC Sports. In his twenty-one years at the company, Kosner built ESPN into the world’s leading digital sports destination, increasing traffic tenfold and turning an unprofitable business into ESPN’s fastest-growing one. Kosner and his team helped revolutionize the sports experience with ESPN.com, the ESPN App, Fantasy Sports, streaming including the development of ESPN3, and podcasting with PodCenter subscription services with Insider (now ESPN+). He was also responsible for recruiting, retaining, and developing exceptional sports writing talent including Wright Thompson, Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe, Ramona Shelburne, Bill Barnwell, and Sambit Bal as well as specialists like Adrian Wojnarowski, Matthew Berry, Henry Abbott, Jayski and Darren Rovell.

George Pyne

George Pyne is Founder & CEO of Bruin Sports Capital, the global sports and entertainment company launched in 2015. Bruin is the latest chapter of his widely-respected career--architecting business transformation in a range of industries that manifest in billions of revenue shareholder value. Backed by the industry's top private equity companies and family investors, Bruin specializes in developing high-growth global, sports, and entertainment businesses.
Throughout his career, Pyne has demonstrated an uncanny ability to uncover potential that others may not, and then turn that potential into immense value. Bruin is the latest example, a venture created to identify the great ideas that would thrive amidst the tectonic shifts to the sports economy and, with the Bruin overlay, lead the industry forward. Today, Bruin's portfolio of leading-edge companies operates on five continents. It is relied upon by virtually every major sports league, governing body, rights holder, as well as billions of sports fans.
Bruin follows Pyne's stewardship of IMG, where, as President and Board Member for IMG Sports and Entertainment, he was responsible for record revenue and earnings growth across multiple commercial lines of business. That growth was the catalyst for the $2.4B price WME paid for the company in 2014. Before that, as COO and Board Member for NASCAR, he designed the commercialization plan that transformed the regional, niche sport into an elite U.S. sports league generating multibillions in commercial revenue.
He began his career working for his family's real estate business before moving to Atlanta, GA to lead a full analysis of the city's school budget and operations, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. That work led to sweeping reforms. He went on to work for Portman Companies, the eponymous commercial real estate and architectural firm founded by the iconic architect. At Portman, he organized the world's second-largest debt restructuring (at the time) and also launched his first business (sports marketing). NASCAR was a client and eventually recruited him to build the commercial side of the sport. He became only the second non-family member to join the Board of NASCAR.
He is on the Board of the National Football Foundation and the National Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of New York. He also served on the Board of 24-Hour Fitness. A Brown University graduate, Pyne was Captain, All-Ivy League, and All-New England honoree as an offensive lineman for the Bruins.

Matt Gottlieb

Matt Gottlieb is currently the Vice President for Insights and Measurement for Sports at NBC Universal. Matt started his career in analytics at Qorvis Communications in Washington DC before moving on to Atlantic Media where he had a focus on polling. Matt was also the polling editor for the National Journal Hotline a well-known polling outfit with a focus on political news.
Matt received an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and continued his work in New York with Verizon with multiple roles that focused on analytics and research particularly across Verizon's partnership portfolio. Matt joined Whistle as the Vice President of Research and Insights in 2009. Whistle is a digital media first company that examines digital media, and the ability to connect with fans using insights, research, and media strategy.

Ray Warren

Ray Warren is President of Telemundo Deportes. In this role, Warren oversees NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises’ growing sports business and leads its strategy across all its platforms and networks. He is responsible for developing opportunities for both existing franchises and future acquisitions with a keen focus on the FIFA World Cup properties.
Warren joined NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises from NBC Sports, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of NBC Sports Regional Networks.
His over thirty-year career spans several senior-level positions at leading advertising and media companies, including serving as President of Carat Media Group Americas, Managing Director of OMD USA, and President and CEO of Raycom Sports. He also held several senior sales positions at ABC Television Network.
Warren serves on the board of Citizens through Sports Alliance, the York College Foundation, and the York College School of Journalism. He received his bachelor’s degree in communications from York College of The City University of New York.

Marques Colston

A strategic thinker with an analytical approach to solving problems, Marques is driven to create growth, where others may not see opportunity.
As a small school prospect and 7th round draft pick by the New Orleans Saints, not much was expected from Marques as an NFL player. His ability to understand the nuances of the wide receiver position allowed him to make an immediate impact. He developed a keen understanding of how every role fit into the overall context of an offensive game plan, and how to leverage his instincts and strengths to exploit the weaknesses of his opponents. That approach allowed Marques to thrive for a decade, in a role that became vital to the team’s success. He retired in 2015 as a Super Bowl champion and franchise leader in almost every receiving category.
While still an active NFL player, Marques leaned on those same tools to start his second career in business. Over the last 15+ years, he has developed a multidimensional understanding of the business world through his experiences as an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and pro sports owner and executive.
He leverages his experience to consult and advise companies at the intersection of sports, health and wellness, technology, and media. Combining his instincts and problem-solving skills with operational experience, Marques helps clients navigate complex challenges to maximize their performance as well as the performance of their organizations. As a speaker and coach, he’s been featured at several business conferences and summits where he shares insights about business success, leadership, team building, and individual performance improvement.
Marques brings together his interests in health and wellness, tech, and entrepreneurship to give back to his community through his support for educational programs that share insights on success with others. In 2018, he partnered with Columbia Business School to create an executive education program for current and former athletes. He also partnered with his alma mater, Hofstra University, to establish the Marques Colston Fellowship to develop experiential learning programs for student-athletes pursuing health careers.

Mike Tannenbaum

Mike Tannenbaum joined ESPN as an NFL Front Office Insider in April 2019. A former NFL executive with more than two decades worth of experience in team front offices, he now appears on a variety of ESPN platforms, including NFL Live, SportsCenter, First Take, and Get Up!.
Tannenbaum also contributed to ESPN’s coverage of the 2019 NFL Draft, serving as an analyst on ESPN Radio alongside Dari Nowkhah, Ian Fitzsimmons, Chris Canty, and Jim Nagy.
Prior to ESPN, Tannenbaum worked for several NFL franchises, most notably as executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins (2015-18), and executive vice president and general manager for the New York Jets (2006-12).
Under Tannenbaum’s leadership, the Dolphins made the playoffs in 2016 for the first time in eight seasons, and the Jets advanced to the playoffs in three seasons, won four playoff games, and made two AFC Championship game appearances. Tannenbaum’s tenure as general manager of the Jets marked the most successful seven-year period in franchise history.
Between executive roles with the Jets and Dolphins, Tannenbaum represented head coaches Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors), David Blatt (then with the Cleveland Cavaliers), and others serving as an agent and principal at Priority Sports and Entertainment from 2013-14.