SCHWAB

I am a 22-year veteran at Octagon and focus my efforts on the future of our business. Be it the start-up ecosystem, venture investing, technological advances or products and services that will change the interaction between sports/entertainment and fans…or simply where we and our clients should be heading in the future. It's a daily effort to create, evolve, innovate and often disrupt the status quo... But in the early days at Octagon, I ran a business of marketing, selling and publicizing celebrity talent. Along the way, I discovered a marketplace gap: the need for brands and non-profits to better understand when, how and why (need to nail those questions before you get to the who question) to use people of influence to amplify their business and business objectives. And equally important, when not to use them (as important as ever now).