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Alexander Kane

Alexander Kane is the founder and CEO of Sporttrade. Sporttrade is a Philadelphia-based sports betting and trading company that has disrupted the sports betting industry with the first legal sports betting exchange.
This exchange approach is like a financial exchange, enabling customers to trade on sports outcomes by buying and selling contracts, just like trading stocks.
Alex has been featured in top industry publications including EGR and Business of Betting, and has written about the US legal landscape in Bloomberg.
In 2019, Alex secured seed and Series A funding for Sporttrade and led the Company through the 2019 Comcast NBCU Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
Prior to his work with Sporttrade, Alex founded a golf consultancy group that was innovative in its use of advanced analytics and interactive visualizations to allow golfers to assess their performance.
Alex graduated from Drexel University in 2016 where he received a degree in business administration and was a member of the Drexel golf team.

Best Of: Adam Goldberg

Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models have been top of mind in recent months so this week we revisit and episode from this season that drives into both of those topics.
Adam Goldberg is the head of Azure OpenAI Enablement and Go To Market team and was previously an Account Director for the Go To Market team at OpenAI.
Prior to his work with OpenAI Adam was the Director of Data and AI solutions at Microsoft and spent the early part of his career in multiple roles with Cisco.

Chris Bevilacqua

Over the past 30 years, Chris Bevilacqua has established himself as a leader in the sports and media business, including being at the forefront of two transformative eras in sports media history.
He is the co-founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures (BHV) which represents a continuation and expansion of the business he previously conducted as founder and CEO of Bevilacqua Media Company (BMC).
At Bevilacqua Media Company, the company had mission to be a principal investor and strategic advisor for media and entertainment assets. Based in New York, BMC works with professional sports leagues and teams, collegiate conferences, as well as, marketing and media companies.
Prior to his work with BMC, Chris served as chairman and CEO of Creative Artist Agency Sports Media Ventures, an affiliate of CAA and Evolution Media Capital. He also served as media rights advisor for several prominent sports and entertainment entities.
In 2003, Chris co-founded College Sports Television, the first-ever 24-hour cable TV network dedicated to college and amateur sports. His vision and efforts for CSTV led to the acquisition of digital media company—Official College Sports Network—which eventually became the industry-leading CSTV.com portal.
From 1994 through 1999, Chris was the Global Director of Negotiations for Nike sports media, licensing and marketing rights.
At Nike, Chris worked closely with top teams, coaches, athletic directors and broadcast executives in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and NCAA. And, in 1995, he was responsible for striking a landmark deal between Nike and the Dallas Cowboys.
Chris graduated from Penn State with honors from the Smeal College of Business. While at Penn State Chris was a two-time All-American wrestler, placing eighth at 150 pounds in 1984 and fourth in the same weight class in 1985. In 2012 Chris was elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Marcus Attles

Marcus Attles is the Associate AD for Facilities and Capital Projects at the University of Miami - a role he started in May 2022. At Miami, he oversees the Facilities & Operations work unit and is responsible for all capital projects and the day-to-day management of athletic facilities.
Marcus came to Miami after four years as Associate AD for Facilities & Operations at Northwestern University. During his time with the Wildcats, he provided leadership, management, and direction for all athletic facilities.
In addition, he helped complete over $400 million in capital projects and facility enhancements. In 2018, Attles was nominated for the Collegiate Event and Facility Management Association’s ‘Facility Manager of the Year’ award. In 2021, he became the sport administrator for NU’s men’s soccer program.
Prior to his time in Evanston, Marcus spent four years at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), where he supervised the Facilities & Event Management staff.
Marcus also spent time at Radford University, where he oversaw all facilities and game management for each of Radford’s 19 NCAA Division I programs.
Other previous stops for Marcus include the University of Central Florida (UCF), the University of Maryland, and Towson University.

Ella Brockway

Ella Brockway is a multi-platform editor on the sports desk for the Washington Post. She is a former sports editing intern at The Post, and has previously written for Sports Illustrated, U.S. Lacrosse Magazine and the Asbury Park Press.
In her time covering sports she has interviewed World Cup winners, Big Ten coaches and athletic directors, and NFL players while reporting live from numerous sporting events, from NWSL games up and down the East Coast, to the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament in Chicago, to the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
Ella graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 with a degree in journalism and international studies. During her time at Northwestern, she served as the sports editor of The Daily Northwestern and the president of Northwestern’s student chapter of the Association for Women in Sports Media.

Revenue Above Replacement Newsletter

This week the Revenue Above Replacement podcast takes a break for the typical guests and features a conversation between Adam and Brice. They discuss this season of the podcast and the slate of upcoming guests.
Adam also discusses his new weekly newsletter, Revenue Above Replacement, for John WallStreet.

Zach Wingrove

Zach Wingrove is the Director of Public Relations and Digital Media for Northwestern Athletics.
In his role Zach has served as the media relations contact for a multiple Northwestern athletic programs – including football, men's and women's basketball, softball, field hockey, wrestling, and volleyball.
Prior to his current role, Zach spent four years working with Northwestern Athletics in both the communications and broadcast operations departments.
Zach also worked as a media relations associate for the Chicago Cubs throughout the 2018 season, a training camp communications intern for the Houston Texans in 2019 and two years on the digital content team for West Michigan’s NBC affiliate, WOOD TV8.
Zach is a native of Grand Rapids Michigan and graduated from Northwestern with a Bachelor’s of Science in journalism in 2019 and a master’s degree in sport administration 2021.

Brooke Riley

Brooke Riley is the Assistant Women’s Golf Coach at Stanford and was a standout golfer at Northwestern.
Prior to joining the staff at Stanford Brooke was the assistant golf professional at Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco Texas.
In her playing days Brooke was a member of the Wildcats program that finished in the Top 10 at NCAA Championships in four straight seasons. She twice earned All-Big Ten honors and was an honorable mention All-American in 2019.
Brooke found herself inside the Top 50 of the World Amateur Golf Rankings with three amateur wins during her collegiate career and made the cut to play at Augusta National during the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2021.
Brooke did both her undergraduate and graduate work at Northwestern where she has a bachelor’s in communication studies and a Masters in Sports Administration.

Matt Brown

Matt Brown is the founder of Extra Points - a newsletter that focuses on the college part of college sports. Extra Points covers all the off-the-field landscape that shapes college sports, from the largest FBS schools to the smallest NAIA programs.
Matt started Extra Points in April of 2020 and prior to going out on his own he oversaw SB Nation’s college team sites and was a regular contributor to SB Nations college football coverage.
In addition to Extra Points Matt is also an author and his book What If?: A closer look at college football's great questions covers pivotal moments through college football history like the Airplane Conference and the University of Chicago's descent from D-I greatness.
Matt has his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University, grew up in Ohio and currently lives in Chicago.

Brookelynn Entz

Brookelynn Entz is a professional soccer player for HK Kopavogur in Iceland. She spent her college career at Kansas State, where Entz owns 28 school records including goals, assists and games played. She graduated from K-State in 2020 with an undergraduate degree in psychology.
The Newton, Kansas native was drafted by the NWSL's Kansas City Current in 2021 before joining Valur in Iceland, where Entz scored her first professional goal and made her debut in the UEFA Women's Champions League. She signed with HK Kopavogur in February.