Current NFL player agent, Kristin Spencer, has officially joined the Z-Axis team as they introduce their new NFL division. CEO, Alexander Zapata, welcomed the new team member earlier this week. “We are excited to expand to a sport dominated by a few Goliath…. Excited to bring our proven model of keeping it simple and honest […]
Jill Miller, former Head of People + Culture at H+K Strategies, has formally agreed to join Excel Sports Management as their new Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Miller’s story begins with humble beginnings, graduating with a BA in accounting from George Washington University. From there, she bounced from analytics job to landing her first […]
Excel Sports Management has withdrawn its lawsuit against Endeavor from the New York State Supreme Court and will instead bring the case to be adjudicated under the MLBPA arbitral system. In the initial lawsuit, Excel sought injunctive relief and damages from Endeavor for inducing two baseball agents (James Murray IV and Michale Stival) to breach […]
Athletes First has hired veteran football agent Sean Kiernan and his colleague, Olivia Green as first announced by Athlete First’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Murphy. Before Kiernan begins his 2nd stint at Athletes First (intern in 2002) he spent the last 7 years at Select Sports Group, representing 100+ high profile NFL players, including First […]
Creative Artist Agency, CAA, has required ICM Partners, making this the biggest agency business acquisition since WMA and Endeavor. With the newfound partnership, CAA and ICM will dominate the sports representation space. With CAA acquiring ICM Partners, it will reap the benefits of ICM ‘s former M&A’s as well. Last year, ICM Partners increased […]
The NBPA welcomed the successor to Executive Director Michele Roberts: Tamika Tremaglio. Tremaglio, formerly Managing Principal at Deloitte, has over nine years of experience with the NBPA, acting as an advisor and consultant. Tremaglio holds both an MBA and JD, has fifteen years of experience working with several player associations, led over 14,000 employees in […]
Peter Ariz has been promoted to Director of Football Operations of First Round Management. With the promotion, the twenty-seven year old is the youngest executive in the company. First Round Management has over 50 employees nationwide on the football and MMA side. Prior to his promotion, Peter was a certified NFLPA Agent, and handled the […]
Since Klutch Sports created its football division in 2019, they have made quite a bit of noise within the industry, hiring prominent agents Damarius Bilbo and Nicole Lynn to lead the division, both of whom brought prominent players with them from their previous agencies. Klutch took another step to making even more noise within the […]
Rosenhaus Sports Representation has welcomed Miami Hurricanes Football alum and NFLPA Certified Agent, Shawn O’Dare to their team. O’Dare will be working alongside football agent tycoon Drew Rosenhaus, Jason Rosenhaus, and Robert Bailey. O’Dare has recently made headlines by paving the way for NIL Representation around the country as he has helped sign numerous University […]
Excel Sports Management has welcomed Scott Lexton and Elijah Wolf to their team. Scott Lexton comes to Excel after most recently being the Vice President at The Raine Group. He first joined The Raine Group in 2011 as their first analyst class. Lexton sits on the board at Thrill One Sports & Entertainment. Prior to […]