A new venture in outdoor sports, co-founded with renowned snowboarder, Travis Rice. Over the last four years, Natural Selection has executed the most anticipated events in snowboarding and mountain biking. Elite competitors, epic locations, prime conditions. Our mission is to deepen people's engagement with the outdoors, celebrating Mother Nature as the Main Character of the Natural Selection Tour.

Led the Pac-12's international strategy, including annual regular season basketball game in Shanghai presented by Alibaba. Additional responsibilities included international distribution of the Pac-12 Networks.

Sourced multi-year, multi-tiered corporate partnerships for the Sacramento Kings & Crown Sports United, the Golden 1 Center (opening in October 2016), as well as other properties that Crown Sports United represented (U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, Sacramento Sports Commission, etc.). Also led the Kings' international business development strategy including NBA Global Games China 2014 and Mexico City 2015.

• Helped manage the NBA’s international business development efforts, working with the NBA’s 13 regional offices to drive new marketing partnerships – deal generation through negotiation.• Assisted in developing and overseeing an international budget $350M+• Successfully originated and negotiated deals in China, Europe, Latin America and Africa• Assisted in international business planning for each territory, establishing budgets, assessing new business and renewal opportunities, developing marquee and grassroots events, and identifying media opportunities.• Collaborated with NBA leadership on international business planning, as well as with regional managing directors on short and long-term business development strategy and action plans.• Managed revenue generation for international marquee events such as NBA Global Games.• Constantly sought out synergies and expansion opportunities between US and international partnerships.• Maintained an understanding of corporation’s organization, sales and marketing activities, as well as the strategic direction of international markets and competitors.• Worked with colleagues cross-functionally to support new business outreach, developing a system for coverage and regular reporting of prospect categories and areas of opportunity.• Maintained knowledge/data from key sports, companies and research sources from which to extract relevant information and to develop implications to support new business efforts.

• Managed UK and Russia client servicing and business development with respect to various sports properties, notably the London 2012 and the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.• Led consulting with Sberbank (Official Bank) and Rosneft (Official Petro) for Sochi 2014. • Relocated to London from February 2008 to March 2009 to manage the Helios Partners UK office, servicing existing London 2012 clientele• Co-managed London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsor agreement negotiations, strategic planning, activation, and evaluation for the Official Bank and Insurance Partner, Lloyds TSB and Official Professional Services Supporter, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.• Assisted in TOP Partner sponsorship agreement negotiations for Acer and Samsung.• Led a sponsorship revenue assessment for client Chicago 2016 during the USOC bid city selection process.• Developed Helios’ Beijing office through client acquisition and servicing, employee recruitment and management, and acquisition of a prior marketplace competitor (Prescient Marketing).• Engaged in the negotiations and activation strategic planning for several Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsors, including Samsung, Lenovo, BHP Billiton, VW China, and Snickers.• Led brand assessment and strategic consulting assignments for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, and World Academy of Sport.• Assisted in Olympic and Paralympic ‘bid city’ consulting for Moscow 2012 (unsuccessful Summer Games bid), Sochi 2014 (won rights to host Games), and Doha 2016 (unsuccessful Summer Games bid).• Key skills: Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsorship contract negotiations (ranging from $20 – $160m), sponsorship activation strategic planning, client account management, media rights assessment (Olympic and Paralympic Games and collegiate sports), brand strategy assessment.