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Erik Vank Is Editing the Waiting Out of Sports
A smart lamp, a 2 a.m. hackathon idea and one very sociable pitch night led Erik Vank to a harder question: why does the clip that matters still arrive after the moment has passed?
Bimal Kapadia Is Building a Media Company That Knows Where Stories Travel
After two decades inside the machinery of sports media, Meadowlark’s CEO is betting that one sharp idea can move from a podcast to a documentary, a series, and a wider public conversation.
Brandon Spano Is Building a Sports Network You Can Walk Into
He learned media by paying for airtime, then turned a Denver website into a five-city network of shows, memberships, merchandise, events, and one very literal sports bar.
Sherlyn Roy Built a Career in the Space Between Spotlight and Discipline
Before she founded Best Version Of YOU!, Sherlyn Roy moved through dance floors, NFL sidelines, television sets and IFBB stages. Her career is a study in turning performance into a durable craft.
Daniel Kirschner Built the Plumbing Behind the Highlight Reel
A policy lawyer and a retired All-Star began with a clunky video request. Twelve years later, their software sits behind the fast, intimate sports clips that make a distant stadium feel close.
Reid Rooney Is Building a Sports Media Portfolio for the Fans Who Keep Showing Up
The Betsperts co-founder has made a quiet wager on loyalty: buy useful sports brands, respect the people already inside them, and let community compound.
Alex Bazzell
He trained the best players in the world one workout at a time. Then he built them a league where the athletes own a piece of the upside.
John Skipper
John Skipper is an American media executive who co-founded Meadowlark Media in 2021 with broadcaster Dan Le Batard, building a sports-focused content studio around podcasts, documentaries and the 'Sports Explains the World' franchise. Best known as president of ESPN from 2012 to 2017, where he greenlit 30 for 30, Grantland, FiveThirtyEight and The Undefeated and negotiated multibillion-dollar rights deals, Skipper began his career in magazines at Rolling Stone before spending two decades at Disney. He later served as executive chairman of the streaming service DAZN and stepped back from day-to-day leadership at Meadowlark in 2025 while remaining on its board.
Mark Floreani
Mark Floreani is the CEO and co-founder of FloSports, the Austin-based streaming company he started in 2006 with his brother Martin and Madhu Venkatesan on roughly $10,000-$20,000 and a van. A former All-American runner at the University of Texas, he filmed the company's breakout moment - Ryan Hall's U.S. half-marathon record - from the back of a noisy pickup truck. FloSports now streams around 50,000 events a year across more than 25 sports that mainstream broadcasters overlook, built on the bet that passion, not audience size, defines a great sport. Floreani took over as CEO in 2018 and has pushed the company deeper into college sports, hockey, motorsports and, more recently, AI-powered production and dubbing.
Victorien Tixier
Victorien Tixier is the co-founder and CEO of ScorePlay, a New York-based sports-tech company whose AI platform ingests, tags, and distributes the flood of photos and video that pro teams generate every game day. He built it after an internship at a five-a-side soccer chain turned into a home-grown video-recording business, then a first company called Hydra, and finally ScorePlay in 2021 with engineer Xavier Green. By 2025 more than 300 sports organizations - from the NBA and Premier League to the NWSL - ran their media operations on it, and the company raised a $13M Series A backed by Giannis Antetokounmpo, Alex Morgan, Nico Rosberg, Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, and Harry Stebbings' 20VC. Tixier and Green made the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list.
Dorian Pieracci
Dorian Pieracci is the Co-Founder and CEO of MOVRS, a Los Angeles sports-technology company that turns ordinary video into structured, labeled 3D data about how humans move. Founded in 2020, MOVRS builds AI-powered biomechanics and digital-twin tools for sports and entertainment partners, from baseball pitching analysis to immersive broadcast experiences. A Georgetown-trained sports industry executive and UC Berkeley graduate, Pieracci is a Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech accelerator alum who pivoted MOVRS from direct sales to a partner-led model and assembled a team drawn from MLB and major sports media.
Haley Rosen
Haley Rosen is the founder and CEO of Just Women's Sports, the digital media company she launched in January 2020 to fix a number that had not budged in a decade: roughly 4% of all sports coverage went to women. A former Stanford midfielder who played professionally before injuries ended her career, Rosen built JWS from a single Instagram account into a leading women's sports media platform with podcasts, editorial, live programming, events, and merchandise, backed by investors including Kevin Durant and Joe Tsai. Her core argument, delivered on the TEDxBoston stage, is blunt: stop treating women's sports like a charity and start covering them like sports.
Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernandez is the co-founder and CEO of SportsManias, the Miami company that turned officially licensed sports emojis and augmented reality filters into a fan-passion business. A University of Chicago football player turned media entrepreneur, he started the company at 19 after a phone call from his mother and co-founder, Aymara Del Aguila. He went on to ship the first officially licensed NFL player AR stickers in partnership with TikTok and the NFLPA, land on Forbes 30 Under 30 for Sports, and get invited to the White House as an Emerging Global Entrepreneur.
Campbell McLaren
Campbell McLaren is the co-creator of the UFC and the CEO and founder of Combate Global, the first Hispanic MMA sports and media franchise. The Scottish-born, American-raised TV producer dreamed up a 'no rules' fighting tournament inspired by the video game Mortal Kombat, produced the first 22 UFC events, and coined the slogan that both built and nearly buried the sport. Decades later he reinvented himself by betting on Latino fighters and audiences, building Combate Global into one of the most valuable combat sports organizations in the world.