The Bay Club Company is a membership-based active lifestyle and hospitality company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1977 with the nation's first co-ed fitness club, it now operates a growing collection of resort-inspired clubs organized into regional campuses across the West Coast - the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Pacific Northwest. Built on four points of focus - fitness, sports, family, and hospitality - the company serves a community of 135,000-plus members with tennis, swimming, squash, golf, pickleball, group exercise, family programs, dining, and spa services. Backed by KKR, Bay Club is in an aggressive expansion phase, acquiring regional operators to scale toward 50-plus clubs and over 200,000 members.
Adrienne Lofton is the Global Vice President of Product & Integrated Consumer Marketing for Google's Platforms & Devices Division, where she leads end-to-end marketing for the Pixel ecosystem and drives activation across Android, Chromebook, Chrome Browser, Google Play, and Google Health & Home. A Howard University graduate and Kellogg MBA, she built her career on brand authenticity — from multicultural marketing at Target, to CMO of Dockers at Levi's, to Senior VP of Global Brand Marketing at Under Armour, to VP Head of North America Marketing at Nike. An Ad Age Brand Genius award winner, Adweek Most Powerful Women in Sports honoree, and board director at Alaska Air Group, Lofton is one of the most recognized voices at the intersection of sports, culture, and consumer marketing.
Arena is a San Francisco-based audience engagement platform that turns publishers' and brands' own websites into social-network-like communities. Through live blogs, group chats, comments, AI-powered content feeds and audience analytics, Arena helps over 20,000 organizations - including Fox Sports - keep readers on-site, collect first-party data and monetize attention they used to give away to social platforms.
TeachMe.To is a marketplace for booking in-person private lessons - golf, tennis, pickleball, music, yoga, and more - that matches beginners with vetted local coaches and handles scheduling, payments, and reviews in one place.
Max Blacker is an Investment Analyst at LDV Capital, a venture firm focused on visual technology and computer vision. A former professional soccer player who played for Crewe United FC in Belfast's Northern Irish 4th Division, he turned a leave of absence from Brandeis University into a founding moment - launching SETGK, a goalkeeper glove company that became one of the fastest-growing brands in the space. He holds a BA in Business from Brandeis and an MS in Finance from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, where he also kicked field goals for the football team and was a Global Finalist in the 2024 Venture Capital Investment Competition. At LDV Capital, he focuses on the intersection of visual technology with sports, health, and nutrition.
Rohit Gurunath Sharma - nicknamed 'The Hitman' - is India's most decorated ODI batsman and the only cricketer in history to score three double centuries in ODI cricket. A scholarship kid from Borivali, Mumbai who grew up partly with grandparents while his father worked as a transport storehouse caretaker, Rohit rose to captain India to the 2024 T20 World Cup (the first undefeated campaign in tournament history) and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. Holder of the ODI world record score of 264, 33 ODI centuries, and captain of Mumbai Indians for five IPL titles, he retired from Test cricket in May 2025 and is now targeting the 2027 ODI World Cup.
Shokz OpenFit Pro are open-ear earbuds that pull off something most audiophiles thought impossible - noise reduction without sealing your ears. Launched at CES 2026, they combine a SuperBoost dual-diaphragm driver, Dolby Atmos with head tracking, 50 hours of battery life, and a triple-microphone array that quietly tamps down background noise while keeping you aware of your surroundings. Built for athletes, office workers, and anyone who refuses to sacrifice situational awareness for sound quality.