SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Dylan Robbins, CEO of our portfolio company, Lucra. Lucra, an emerging market leader in social gamification technology, today announced it has raised $10 million led by SeventySix Capital, 7GC, Steve Kuhn, and NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, alongside a who’s who of professional team owners and athletes. Addi...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Bill Pascrell III, Special Advisor to our portfolio company IC360. As Special Advisor, Pascrell will focus on policy development, strategic guidance, and strengthening IC360’s position as the trusted authority in gaming compliance and integrity solutions. Pascrell is a Partner at Princton Public Affairs Grou...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Dave Rebuck, Special Advisor to our portfolio company IC360. David L. Rebuck was appointed by Governor Chris Christie in 2011 as Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Before that, he served for 23 years as a Deputy Attorney General, specializing in policy guidance and regulatory reform....

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Legendary Basketball Coach Phil Martelli. Martelli is a legendary basketball coach with a career spanning nearly five decades, known for his leadership, integrity, and dedication. He spent 34 years at Saint Joseph's University, first as an assistant and then as head coach for 24 years, before joining the Uni...

On this World Series Special Edition of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Skyler Logsdon, CEO of Boomerang. Kimmel and Logsdon discuss the business side of the World Series, including ticket prices, players’ salaries, viewership, and, of course, lost and found. Logsdon was born and raised in Ojai, CA., studied Entrepreneurship in Philadelphia at Drexel Univers...

On this World Series Special Edition of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Scott Sadin, COO of IC360. Kimmel and Handron discuss the business side of the World Series, including ticket prices, players’ salaries, viewership, and, of course, sports betting. Sadin has experience in operational management stemming from financial services institutions such as Apollo...

On this World Series Special Edition of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed C.J. Handron, CEO of Diamond Kinetics. Kimmel and Handron discuss the business side of the World Series, including ticket prices, players’ salaries, viewership, and, of course, sports tech. Handron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Diamond Kinetics. He is responsible for leading commercializa...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Jon Kaplowitz, CEO of ⁠Clubs Poker⁠. Kaplowitz is a media and technology executive with over 25 years of experience in leading innovation and building new businesses in small and large companies. His skill-set includes incubating new businesses, deal generation and execution, operating companies in both dome...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Korbi Carrison, Event Vice President for G2E. Carrison leads G2E, the casino and gaming industry’s largest gathering of commercial and tribal professionals from around the world, held annually in Las Vegas. Since 2018, Korbi has leveraged her over 20 years of experience in the gaming industry to direct the s...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Dave Maryles, Founder & Partner at Rubicon Talent. Maryles co-founded Rubicon Talent in January 2017 along with other sports marketing veterans Peter Raskin, Jonathan Salant, and Brandon Swibel. At Rubicon, Maryles plays a key role across all divisions in talent management, marketing, media and talent co...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Eric Menell, Managing Director and the Global Co-Head of Sports Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in June 2008, he spent 11 years at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he began his career as an investment banking analyst in 1997 and primarily focused on large-cap media mergers...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Max Hirsch, 2024 SeventySix Capital Summer Intern. Hirsch is a rising Junior at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing a degree in data science and business. He takes a wide variety of classes, ranging from data manipulation to linear regression to accounting. Passionate about the overlap of sports...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Jared Kleinstein, Founder & CEO of Fresh Tape Media & Gondola. Jared Kleinstein is the Founder and CEO of Denver-based Gondola Inc., a social media analytics & portfolio tool that provides creators with an opportunity to take credit for their work across any social account or platform (and on the...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Andy Guelcher & Darius Prince from the Albany Firebirds & Jon Williams from Summit Trail Adivors. Williams joined Summit Trail Advisors as a Partner in 2019. Williams works closely with a select group of high-net-worth clients and their outside advisors to develop and execute financial strategies, ac...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Carlos Silva, Partner & President of the SeventySix Capital Sports Advisory Agency. A veteran Sport and media and digital executive, Silva has built and sold companies in the TV, digital and media convergence space over the last 25 years.  He has also raised more than $250M for the startups that he has o...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Belinda Oakley, CEO of Sodexo Live! North America. Oakley leads 20,000+ team members at more than 150 partner venues throughout the U.S. and Canada, including stadiums, convention centers, museums, zoos, aquariums, ski areas and more. A proven international business leader with two decades of food service ma...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Scott Kaplan, host of the afternoon drive radio program Sedano and Kap on 710 ESPN LA. Kaplan also serves as the Founder and CEO of Sided, the world’s first AI poll-generating tool built for publishers to collect data, create engagement, and monetize. In his former life, Kaplan was the record-setting kicker...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Dylan Robbins and Michael Madding, CEO and COO of Lucra. Our SeventySix Capital portfolio company, Lucra, is the leading technology provider of gamification services. Their B2B technology facilitates cash, e-commerce, or cashless contests on partner platforms. Lucra's white-label Software Development Kit...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Matt Holt, CEO of IC360, and Eric Frank, President of IC360. SeventySix Capital portfolio companies, U.S. Integrity and Odds On Compliance announced the completion of their merger and the launch of the combined entity’s new name, Integrity Compliance 360 (IC360). The merger cements IC360 as the unequivocal g...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Jesse Cole, Owner of the Savannah Bananas. Cole, also known as “the guy in the yellow tuxedo” is the founder of Fans First Entertainment and the owner of the world-famous Savannah Bananas as well as the Party Animals and Firefighters. The Bananas have welcomed more than 1 million fans to their ballpark and h...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed C.J. Handron, CEO of Diamond Kinetics and Ben Jun, Founder of sidelineHD. Diamond Kinetics X sidelineHD: Diamond Kinetics, a SeventySix Capital portfolio company, has acquired sidelineHD, a youth sports media platform specializing in live streaming and video highlights. The acquisition aims to enhance player...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed 2X Stanley Cup Champion and author of Thundermouth: Memoirs of a Broad Street Bully and NHL Lifer, Joe Watson. Watson was one of the first hockey players drafted during the NHL expansion draft in 1967 for the newly created Philadelphia Flyers. Little did he know when he left the Boston Bruins that this unexp...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Brian Litvack, CEO of LeagueApps. Litvack is an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to empowering communities to create exceptional sports experiences for all. Before founding LeagueApps in 2010, Litvack was part of the founding team at Sportsvite, where he gained insights into the needs of youth sport...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Bryce Hollweg, COO of the Florida Panthers. Hollweg was named the Chief Operating Officer of the Florida Panthers in July 2022 after serving as the organization's Executive Vice President since April 2021. Hollweg oversees the organization's arena operations, food & beverage services, live entert...

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed Sam Bakhshandehpour, President of the José Andrés Group. Bakhshandehpour is the President and Board Member of José Andrés Group (JAG), a restaurant and media company.  Driven by the mission of “Changing the world through the power of food," JAG's platform spans 38+ restaurants across 9 markets globa...