1-on-1: Sports Business Conversations

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In this podcast series, ADC Partners co-founder Dave Almy interviews sports business professionals who are shaping the future of the industry.

ADC Partners is a San Francisco Bay Area based agency specializing in sports business, sports marketing and partnerships.

More information is at www.adcpartners.com

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1-on-1: Sports Business Conversations

1-on-1: Sports Business Conversations

1-On-1: Sports Business Conversations

About this podcast

In this podcast series, ADC Partners co-founder Dave Almy interviews sports business professionals who are shaping the future of the industry.

ADC Partners is a San Francisco Bay Area based agency specializing in sports business, sports marketing and partnerships.

More information is at www.adcpartners.com

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32 episodes

Megan Sheffield, Director of Brand Partnerships, Zappos

12 September 2023

Let’s take a second and define the meaning of the word “bananas”. Yes, it’s a yellow fruit you need to take care not to slip on. But that’s not the definition I’m thinking of right now. I’m thinking of the bananas that means “crazy”. “wacky”. “Bonkers”. And so, with that definition in mind, you know...

00:41:06

Yao Williams: VP of Global Partnerships, ESL FACEIT Group

Yao Williams: VP of Global Partnerships, ESL FACEIT Group

You may think you’ll do anything to close a sports marketing partnership, but how about eating bullfrog soup? That’s what this episode’s guest Yao Williams did once. (Yes, just the once). Currently the VP of Global Partnerships for eSports juggernaut ESL FACEIT Group, Yao’s path through the sports b...

00:39:47

Joe De Sena: Founder and CEO, The Spartan Race

Joe De Sena: Founder and CEO, The Spartan Race

Let’s get one thing out of the way. Joe De Sena thinks you’re soft. And he wants you to suffer. In fairness, the founder and CEO of the obstacle competition empire Spartan Race thinks just about everyone is soft and can benefit from some suffering. Because he believes it’s in those moments, when yo...

00:22:44

Dr Darin White: Exec Director, Center for Sports Analytics at Samford University

Dr Darin White: Exec Director, Center for Sports Analytics at Samford University

Lets start with a tortured analogy: using data and analytics is a little like going to the gym. You know it’s important and good for you, but MAN can it be hard to get started. No one knows this better than Dr Darin White, the Executive Director of the Center for Sports Analytics at Samford Universi...

00:39:18

Adam Lippard: Chief Partnership Officer, GMR Marketing

Adam Lippard: Chief Partnership Officer, GMR Marketing

“I’m a capitalist, but I also have a conscience.”That was written by this episode’s guest, Adam Lippard, after he returned from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and they really cut to the heart of the internal conflict he experienced during that event. Adam is the Chief Partnership Officer for GMR Marke...

00:42:46

Dan Schilling: Author of "The Power of Awareness"

Dan Schilling: Author of "The Power of Awareness"

Note: This episode contains some salty language.This is a sports business podcast. Says so right there in the logo. So you’re probably expecting something related to sports business. Well, sorry to disappoint. My guest in this episode has never worked in sports. Frankly he’s not really even that muc...

00:51:38

Marc Reeves: Head of Global Partnerships, Fever

Marc Reeves: Head of Global Partnerships, Fever

When I ask you what the most dominant sports league in the US is, I suspect you’d probably say the NFL. And if I asked what sports agency more or less created sports marketing, you’d probably say IMG. How about the world’s biggest sportswear brand? Nike, right?And what do all these blue chip sports...

00:46:45

Ari Mark: SVP of Partnerships, Drone Racing League

Ari Mark: SVP of Partnerships, Drone Racing League

The Drone Racing League’s current season wraps up on NBC with the Algorand World Championships Semi Finals on March 26th and the finals on April 8th, so it’s kind of a miracle I managed to get the League’s SVP of Partnerships Ari Mark to sit still long enough for an interview. These are heady days f...

00:28:35

Lyle Adams: CEO of Spry

Lyle Adams: CEO of Spry

Trying to stay on top of the Name-Image-Likeness market for college athletes is just brutal. That marketplace is more complex than reading Shakespeare in ancient Greek while juggling on 1 foot. I suppose it takes someone like Lyle Adams, the CEO of Spry, to not only make sense of it all, but to buil...

00:44:14

Rudy Klancnik, VP of Sales and Marketing, Sports in Action

Rudy Klancnik, VP of Sales and Marketing, Sports in Action

14 February 2023

Here's a little secret: high school football is a really big deal in Texas. OK, maybe that’s not that much of a secret, what with the whole Friday Night Lights thing. But still: it’s a really REALLY big deal. And no one knows that more that Rudy Klancnick, the VP of Sales for Sports in Action. In hi...

00:37:41