Halftime Snacks

Today’s Halftime Snack features Matt Campagna! He is an engineer, a sports enthusiast, and a thriving entrepreneur.

Matt is the CEO and co-founder of Reflexion — a technology company looking to create tools to train and monitor athletes' brains. 

Their technology tracks, trains, and strengthens neuro-responses, resulting in both neurologic and physical performance enhancement.

In our snack, we talked about becoming an entrepreneur, the value of education, challenges that sports-tech entrepreneurs face, visual cognitive training, and so much more.

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Today's guest of the show is Murray Barnett.

Murray has over 20 years of experience working in sports in companies like ESPN, Formula 1, World Rugby, and the NBA.

He's a master in the future of sports, tech & innovation, commercial partnerships, media, and sponsorships, amongst other topics.

Today, he is the Founder of Sports Consultancy 26West– where they specialize in the business side of sports, Media Rights, Sponsorships, and more.

In our snack, we talked about Murray’s career and his lessons from working in world-class organizations, the electrification of sports, sport for all, technology, media, sponsorships, and so much more.

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Today's Halftime Snack features Mike Emery — a former sales and marketing director from Oslo in Norway.

Mike's an entrepreneur who's passionate about sports and technology, but he's driven primarily to improve the industry's quality worldwide.

He's the CEO of Joymo, a game-changing streaming platform for clubs, athletes, fans, and coaches, where they can film games and training, store content, sell access to fans, and so much more.

He's also the founder of World At Play — a charity foundation that works to inspire and develop young people through sports.

In our snack, we talked about Joymo and traditional sports broadcasting, the DTC & media business, the role of data in 2021, the democratization of grassroots sports, and more.

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Joining today’s snack is Dan Evans – an extraordinary and successful sports executive.

Dan is a Former LA Dodgers General Manager, and he worked as an executive in other MLB teams such as the Chicago Cubs, the Seattle Mariners, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the White Sox.

Today he runs a baseball consulting company, from which he provides experienced advice in decision-making, staff, procedures, strategy, and resources of baseball organizations. 

Besides being widely known for his expertise and success in the MLB, he was one of the pioneers to use technology & video analysis.

In our snack, we talked about the different ways in which baseball has changed, lessons from the MLB, what differentiates good from great organizations, sports technology, and so much more!

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John Wallace joins me for a massive Halftime Snack.

John is the director of performance at SPIRE Institute in Ohio, where they develop and implement performance training to increase the athletic abilities from academy students to Olympic athletes. SPIRE Performance is one of the largest performance training centers in the US. John’s role is to educate and prepare athletes with both theory and practice.

He also brings a lot of technology to the mix, as he uses data, functional movement screens, biometrics, and video analysis to the training.

In our conversation, we talked about being the director of performance in one of the largest performance institutions in the US, factors that separate the good and the great athletes, how moving the Olympics a year affects performance, practical tips to improve your wellness and so much more.

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In today's episode, Amar Singh joins us for a quick Halftime Snack. He's a former head of content at West Ham United and chief of content at Squawka. He then worked with Budweiser as the head of Football Content & Strategy — where he led the content operations from Budweiser's sponsorships of the Premier League and LaLiga.

He now works as a brand manager for Belgian company Anheuser-Busch, one of the most relevant beer-producing brands globally.

Amar is an expert in marketing, branding, product, and, most importantly, beer. 

In our conversation, we talked about what makes sports marketing unique, how different are the marketing roles in the brands where he worked, lessons on content distribution, brand building, and so much more.

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Today's episode features Amobi Okugo.

Amobi is a professional soccer player, a founder, and a Forbes 30 under 30 member. 

He's a first-generation immigrant from Nigeria who's been a professional soccer player since 2010.

Additionally, Amobi is the founder of A Frugal Athlete, which helps professional and amateur athletes make better financial decisions.

He also launched the Ok U Go foundation, where they help children from low-income backgrounds to find their talents and passions to build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.

In our conversation, we talked about the Nigerian culture, time management as a professional player, the story behind Amobi's foundation, myths around the psychology of money, and so much more. 

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Our following guest of the Halftime Snacks is Sameer Ahuja.

He holds a master's degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's from Columbia.

Additionally, Sameer has over 20 years of experience as a C-suite executive of high-growth technology businesses.

He co-founded an interactive sports attraction, founded a hedge fund, built a fin-tech company, raised over $110M of investor capital, and achieved two successful exits!

Today, Sameer is the COO of GameChanger, a company developing youth sports communities with the highest quality game coverage.

GameChanger's apps are used by millions of youth sports coaches, fans, and athletes to score, stream, and watch youth sports. Sameer is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and day-to-day management of the company. 

Sameer also writes a blog, Complexity Everywhere, about unexpected events in markets, politics, and society. He actively incorporates deep learning (artificial intelligence) and complexity science in research and writing.

Sameer's area of expertise lies in the intersection between finance, data, and technology.

In our conversation, we talked about GameChanger and its impact in different communities across the US, how their business shifted during the COVID pandemic, and we discussed topics surrounding finance, technology, risk, and bitcoin.

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Today's Halftime Snack features Sean Callanan.

Sean is an entire polymath of the industry. He's the founder of Sports Geek — a platform that helps teams, leagues, and athletes expand their businesses and generate more revenues through digital strategies. He's also the founder of SG Esports and owner of League of Legends professional team Gravitas.

Additionally, he's widely famous for hosting the Sports Geek Podcast since 2014, where he talks about digital marketing and the different applications of technology in sports.

Sean's expertise lies in the intersection between brand management, digital marketing, and technology, but he can provide insights around any topic on the sports and esports industry.

We talked about Sean's story, his sources of creativity, esports, how the sports business will change in the future, and how to develop a sports-biz career. 

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Today's Halftime snack features Tomer Yehudayan — a lecturer and an entrepreneur from Israel promoting the sports tech community through Israeli technologies.

Tomer was a basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem, and he's been a referee of professional leagues, including wheelchair basketball, for the last eleven years.

Currently, he is the Country Manager & Head of Knowledge at Colosseum Sports. He leads the group's education activities, assists startups in the field, organizes sports events, and delivers education programs to sports executives and professional players. Check out the latest Sports Tech Management Executive Program.

He is also the head of the sports tech management program in Wingate (Israel's leading sports institution) and a lecturer of the sports entrepreneurship course at Ben-Gurion University.

We talked about Israel as a leading country in sports technology, how Tomer thinks of education and innovation, what Colosseum is doing to create the future of sports, and so much more!

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