Halftime Snacks

Today's Halftime Snack features Stefy Bau – a 3-time motocross world champion and an advocate for diversity and inclusion in sports.

Stefy is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in motorsports and esports, and she's the founder and CEO of Init Sports and Init Esports – entities that aim to create, develop, and promote events in motorsports, e-mobility, and Esports to create opportunities for women and for minorities.

Besides being an active speaker empowering women in sports, she advises for different organizations such as Women in Sports Tech, the NCAA Esports commission, and the EK Female Advisory Board.

In our conversation, we discussed the concept of risk and reward in the context of motorsports, how failures build your character, using technology to train motorsports athletes, diversity and inclusion, and so much more.

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Our next guest is Brittany Gilman – professional athlete, entrepreneur, trainer, fitness model, designer, marketing director, and more.

Brittany is the CEO & founder of BG Sports – an agency that provides various services such as representation, PR, event production, branding, digital marketing, and much more to organizations and individuals.

She has managed and worked with over 500 professional athletes worldwide in NFL, the Premier League, La Liga, snowboarding, boxing, and UFC.

Additionally, Brittany is the CEO & founder of BPOP — an opportunity connection platform driving innovation in sports through technology.

In our conversation, we talked about determination, lessons and mistakes, the beginnings of BG Sports, innovating an industry, common challenges athletes face, how technology disrupts, and more!

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Omer Brand is our guest of honor on today’s Halftime Snack.

Omer is a professional sailor, coach, experienced executive, and leader in sailing by winning multiple national and international championships.

He’s originally from Israel and has over ten years of business development experience in diverse tech companies.

Today, he's the CEO and co-founder of Sea-Analytics — a video-based platform that analyses the performance of sailing athletes and helps them improve through personalized insights.

In our conversation, we talked about lessons from being a professional sailor, the technological evolution of sailing, how he came up with Sea-Analytics, the future of sailing, and so much more!

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Today's guest of the Halftime Snacks features Chad Stender.

Chad’s background includes experiences in diverse companies such as Walt Disney, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Philadelphia Flyers.

He's a partner at SeventySix Capital – a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in seed and early-stage companies in diverse industries, including sports and technology.

In our conversation, we discussed the evolution of VC, private equity, and disruptions in sports, Chad’s perspective on the industry, mistakes to avoid as investors, the ingredients for a successful fundraiser, and so much more.

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Today's guest of the Halftime Snacks is Keith Bank.

Keith is a graduate of Wharton and Kellogg School of Management. He grew up in St. Louis, started a business, and sold it to become an angel investor of companies in different sectors such as software, healthcare, and sports.

For 26 years, he's been the CEO and founder of KB Partners – a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in early-stage sports technology companies.

Besides being involved with several sports technology companies, Keith is also the founder of Club Champion Golf – the nationwide leader in custom club fittings.

In our conversation, we talked about skills and traits Keith looks for in people, being a manager, venture capital and angel investing, sports technology, and so much more.

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Today's Halftime Snack features Christopher Aumueller – former Division 1 tennis player and the CEO and founder of FanWord!

Chris is originally from Germany, but he joins this episode from Lincoln, Nebraska. He is a self-taught entrepreneur obsessed with helping college athletes with storytelling, networking, and monetization tools.

FanWord is a platform that helps college athletes to build, monetize, and protect their brands.

In this episode, we discussed NIL in college sports, the story and types of business models of FanWord, brand management, and more.

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This Halftime Snack features Sanjit Atwal — former co-founder of Squawka (one of the fastest-growing digital media & entertainment businesses in football).

Sanjit is an award-winning innovator whose background is packed with experiences in technology, sports, and marketing.

Currently, Sanjit runs Halfspace – a marketing agency with clients in sports and entertainment that uncovers the hidden signals behind your audience and delivers the engagement needed for growth.

We discussed product vs. distribution, the advertising industry, lessons from building, running, and selling Squawka, sports marketing, entrepreneurship, content, and more.

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Today's Halftime Snacks features Andrew Naugher.

Andrew is an award-winning marketing executive who's an expert in social and digital media.

He's currently the founder and CEO of MediaX Partners, and he's building Rikodi –a platform that allows fans to re-live their favorite sports moments while delivering fan engagement and new and different revenue sources to teams.

In our conversation, we discussed topics related to fan engagement, strategy, privacy, product development, and more!

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Joining today's Halftime Snack is Pedro Mestriner.

Besides being a former professional rock climber and Harvard alumni, his background is packed with experiences in coding, sales, marketing, project, and product management.

He's the CEO and Co-Founder of Horizm  – a company that uses technology to help sports companies track, value, and monetize their digital media.

In our snack, we talked about rock climbing, strategy, founder-product-market fit, business development, Pedro’s vision for the company and the industry, risk management, and more!

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Today's guest is Christoph Sonnen. Christoph is a venture capital expert with a passion for startups, sports, and technology.

In the last twenty years, he has founded, managed, and sold several businesses, investments, and accelerator projects.‍

Together with the Adi Dassler Family, Cristoph co-founded leAD Sports — a group that invests in sports technologies – where he currently is the CEO.

leAD sources, funds, and grows early-stage sports & health tech startups globally.

In our conversation, we talked about big wave surfing, how to catch waves in sports, business, and life, traits that great founders have, the strategy and growth plans for leAD, the value of people, places, culture, timing, luck, and more.

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