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Ryan Girardot is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebro Sports. Ryan started his journey in sports by building a statewide driveway basketball league in Texas. After building a team of co-founders including John Cho, VP of Data Analytics under Daryl Morey for the Houston Rockets for 20+ years, Cerebro grew to become the largest collection of basketball box score stats in the world.

Now, Cerebro has a mission to democratize these stats, and provide the analytics and insights available in our database with consumers, athletes, and professionals alike.

Via Cerebro Sports

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John Stewart is the CEO & Co-Founder of Fastbreak AI.

John is a serial entrepreneur who began his career by founding an engineering services firm in 2003. After successfully exiting that business in 2009, he co-founded Saber Business Solutions, which evolved into MapAnything, a geospatial mapping and scheduling software company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. John has co-founded or invested in multiple SaaS startups, serves on several boards, and advises CEOs on business development and strategy. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. ​

Bio via Fastbreak AI

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Cameron Korab is Founder of Youth Sports Business Report and Co-Founder of Play Up Partners. Youth Sports Business Report is the largest and most trusted source for youth sports industry news, insights, and analysis.Trusted by over 50,000 followers including industry executives, investors, youth sports parents and sports business professionals, it is the premier destination for comprehensive youth sports business intelligence.

The core mission: Make Youth Sports Better. As the leading authority in youth sports business reporting, we deliver unparalleled coverage of sports business trends, youth athletics, and emerging opportunities across the youth sports ecosystem.

YSBR’s expert editorial team provides authoritative, in-depth reporting on key youth sports industry verticals including:

Sports sponsorship and institutional capital (Private Equity, Venture Capital)

Youth Sports events and tournament management

NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) developments and compliance

Youth sports coaching and sports recruitment strategies

Sports technology and data analytics innovationYouth sports facilities development and management

Sports content creation and digital media monetization

Whether you’re a sports industry executive, institutional investor, youth sports parent, coach, or sports business enthusiast, Youth Sports Business Report is your most reliable source for the actionable sports business insights you need to stay ahead of youth athletics trends and make informed decisions in the rapidly evolving youth sports landscape.

Bio via YSBR ( https://youthsportsbusinessreport.com/ )

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Kyle Rudolph is a 12-year NFL veteran, a 2x Pro Bowler, and the co-founder & CEO of Alltroo.

Alltroo is a trusted professional fundraiser that helps charities supercharge their fundraising efforts and gain access to a new community of donors through custom giveaways, called Rallies. Rallies offer prizes with the biggest names in sports, music and entertainment. Fans can donate to a worthy cause or enter without donating and get entries for the chance to win.

https://alltroo.com/

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Jack Liechtung is a sports media operator, entertainment attorney, and co-founder/CEO of Canopy Talent, where they build NIL infrastructure for Olympic sports programs nationwide.

Through Canopy, he helps universities and brands unlock new partnership opportunities by activating student-athletes as authentic creators, delivering compliant, team-wide campaigns that drive engagement and incremental revenue.

www.canopytalent.com

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Will Johnson is the Founder & CEO of CourseCast, the first digital platform built into the golf course. CourseCast’s AI autonomously delivers Tour-quality video and statistics of everyday golf using hidden, solar-powered cameras —transforming any course into a lucrative engagement platform where golfers can watch, learn, and compete like never before. If Toptracer Range digitized practice, CourseCast is digitizing play.

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CiCi Bellis leads the firm with a background that uniquely blends professional sports and venture capital. As a former professional tennis player who reached a career-high ranking of WTA #35, CiCi understands the demands and nuances of high-performance sports. After retiring from tennis, she spent four years working at a sports tech-focused venture capital firm, where she managed all deal flow operations, while also completing her MBA. In 2023, she leveraged this expertise to launch Cartan Capital, aiming to drive and shape innovation in sports and health tech.

Bio via Cartan Capital

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P. Ryan Petkoff is a dynamic leader, strategic advisor and consultant who partners with startups and legacy businesses to build solutions that create meaningful value. Ryan’s expertise as an operator and an advisor ranges from strategy development and execution to high-level marketing, communications and storytelling, capital raise and allocation, change management, crisis mitigation and executive coaching.

With a rare combination of skills, Ryan’s “unicorn experience” means organizations can solve a variety of challenges with a single consultant. He excels in environments where he can wear multiple hats, driving impact across various functions, making him a perfect fit for startups or legacy businesses navigating growth, change or transformation.

Most of all, Ryan cares deeply for people and connects well with what matters.

Ryan is passionate about working with entrepreneurs because he thrives on building things. Whether it’s launching a new marketing initiative, managing a capital raise, or guiding a company through a crisis, he is energized by the opportunity to create something meaningful. He works with a select group of clients, prioritizing quality over quantity, where he can build deep and authentic relationships.

Before launching his consulting practice, Ryan spent almost 20 years in the world of professional sports, where he helped transform the Kansas City Chiefs into one of the most successful franchises in global sports. As a top executive at Hunt Sports Group (the parent company of the Lamar Hunt family’s sports franchises), Ryan was “one of the driving leadership forces behind the Chiefs’ ascent to the top of the NFL” (Sports Business Journal). He spearheaded the Chiefs’ first international marketing initiative and led the team’s entry into the NFL’s global marketing program. By 2021, the Chiefs earned marketing rights to both Germany and Mexico, helping the team become one of the fastest-growing sports brands worldwide. He also was the primary advisor to Chiefs Chairman and CEO throughout the construction of the Chiefs dynasty.

Now, Ryan channels his expertise, extensive network, and passion for building into helping innovative companies thrive and scale.

Bio via Petkoff Strategies

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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