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Parker Graham is the Founder & CEO of Vestible, a company that enables sports organizations to access global investment capital while allowing investors worldwide to participate in the future of sports. For more on Vestible, visit https://vestible.co/

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Michael Moe is the Founder and CEO of GSV, a growth-focused investment platform. GSV has invested in game-changing businesses such as Facebook, Twitter, Snap, Palantir and Spotify. GSV has several funds focused on the digital learning sector and has invested in Coursera, Chegg, Course Hero, Masterclass, and Guild Education. GSV stands for “Global Silicon Valley,” inspired by the entrepreneurial mindset of Silicon Valley spreading throughout the world.

Michael is also the co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit, which Forbes called “the Davos of Education.” Additionally, Michael is on the Board of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame, Center for Education Reform, ClassDojo, Bookclub, Hi Solutions, and is an advisor to Arizona State University.

Before GSV, Michael was the Founder and CEO of ThinkEquity Partners, Head of Global Growth Research at Merrill Lynch, and was voted to be on the Institutional All American Research Team and named "Best on the Street" by the Wall Street Journal.

Michael is the author of three books, “Finding the Next Starbucks”, “the Global Silicon Valley Handbook” and his most recent, “The Mission Corporation.”Michael holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Minnesota and is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst). He and his wife Bonnie live in Dallas, Texas where they moved to in 2021 after living in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years.

Bio via ASU GSV Summit

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Jack Jones is the Co-Founder and Chief of Staff at SūmerSports. With a deep passion for football and a keen eye for business opportunities, Jack has built a career that leverages his analytical skills and industry insights. He worked for the San Francisco 49ers in various roles, gaining valuable experience and demonstrating his dedication to the sport.

Bio via SūmerSports

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Jason is the General Partner and Co-Founder of Highmount Capital, an investment firm specializing in growth-stage and middle-market opportunities within transformative technology and other high-growth sectors. Previously, he served as Managing Director and founding member of Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)—the venture and growth investment arm of Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the U.S. with revenues exceeding $130 billion. During his tenure, Jason played a key role in expanding KDT’s portfolio to billions in assets under management across more than 40 companies.

https://www.highmountcap.com/

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Brian is a Partner at Ryan Sports Ventures and the Founder of Stretch 4 Advisory. Through Stretch 4 Advisory, Brian provides strategic business services to sports technology and data companies including Riddell Sports, Wilson Sporting Goods, Peak Performance Project (P3), and FastModel Sports.

Brian was previously Partner and Group CEO of Phoenix Sports Partners, a sports investment and operating company. Before his role at Phoenix, Brian served as President of North America for Catapult Sports, a global provider of sports analytics and performance products. Prior to Catapult, Brian served as Senior Vice President of Sports Solutions for STATS LLC. At STATS, Brian was responsible for the revolutionary SportVU player tracking technology as well as building innovative analytics solutions for NBA, NFL and NCAA teams. Prior to his career in sports business, Brian worked in investment banking and private equity before transitioning into corporate strategy and M&A roles.

Brian received his BA in Economics from Wabash College, where he played basketball. He also received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Brian resides in the Chicago area with his wife Rita and their five children.

https://www.ryansportsventures.com/

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Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN whose primary focus is long form enterprise and investigative work on the National Football League. His stories have appeared across ESPN platforms.In more than two decades at ESPN, he has profiled the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Bill Belichick, John Elway, Sean McVay, Andrew Luck, Odell Beckham, Jr., Bill Walsh, Jim Harbaugh, Alex Honnold, Gregg Popovich and Y.A. Tittle, among others, and he has written deep dives into strained relationships within the Cleveland Browns, Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. Along with senior writer Don Van Natta, Wickersham has written critically acclaimed investigations on the NFL’s handling of the Spygate and Deflategate cheating controversies, the Rams and Raiders franchise relocations, the behind-closed-doors meetings on the inequality protests, the efforts by Jerry Jones to block Roger Goodell’s contract extension, the complicated tenure of NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, the efforts of Donald Trump to interfere with Senator Arlen Specter’s Spygate inquiry, and of Dan Snyder’s attempts to avoid being removed as owner of the Washington Commanders. A 2022 story about Snyder by Wickersham, Van Natta, and Tisha Thompson is widely credited with triggering the push for him to sell the franchise.In 2018, Wickersham was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and has been part of a staff that has three times won the NMA for General Excellence. His stories have been anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing, the Best American Sports Writing, Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, and in Words Matter: Writing to Make a Difference. He has won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Pro Football Writers Association. In 2015, he won a Folio Award for Best Single Story – Sports, and received a second-place National Headliner Award in Magazine Feature Writing.In the fall of 2021, Wickersham’s book It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness was released. It was a New York Times bestseller and was named Nonfiction Book of the Year by Sports Illustrated and Sports Book of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.In the fall of 2025, Wickersham’s second book, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback, was released. It was a New York Times bestseller.https://www.amazon.com/American-Kings-Quarterback-Seth-Wickersham/dp/1368099181A collection of his ESPN work, Be on That Hill, will be published in the fall of 2026 by Hyperion Avenue.He is credited as playing himself in the 2014 movie Draft Day, though he regrets to inform that the scene was cut before it was shot.Wickersham was born in Denver and raised in Boulder and in Anchorage, Alaska. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism, where he and ESPN writer Wright Thompson covered Super Bowl XXXIV for the Columbia Missourian. He was hired at ESPN The Magazine shortly after graduation in 2000. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Bio via ESPN

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Kyle Israel is a Managing Partner at Momentous Sports, a next-generation sports ownership and investment platform reimagining how teams and stadiums drive enterprise value and community impact.

A former quarterback for the University of Central Florida (UCF), Kyle brings hands-on expertise from his athletic career—where he was a starter and team leader for the Knights—and from his past entrepreneurial, investment, and operational roles.

Kyle draws on both Florida roots and international experience, combining an operator’s perspective with a commitment to shaping the future of sports as an asset class.

https://momentous-sports.com/

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From Season 2 Episode 7 with Cooper Manning.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zeCmtnNpdD96w0t5ybH9a?si=H8yfM62LQpWLU0FBeKsTDg

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Skyler Logsdon is CEO & Co-Founder of Boomerang, a technology company on a mission to reinvent the way stadiums, arenas, airports, and hotels handle lost & found (item recovery).

Prior to Boomerang, he was on the Founding team of Tatari and Co-Founder & CEO of MyKlips.

https://thanksboomerang.com/

From Season 2 Episode 6 with Dr. Marcus Elliott, the founder of the Peak Performance Project (P3).