UpStaged and our National Collegiate Performing Arts (NCPA)TM and National High School Performing Arts (NHSPA)TM brands, are the NCAA/ESPN of Student Performing Arts - similar to Varsity Spirit (Cheer Business) - producing, marketing and owning student performing championships (and IP) at venues from Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center across 20 genres (I.e. Dance, Comedy, a cappella, like NCAA sports) as basis for a bigger data/content/software “play.”With 480k NCAA athletes on 25,000 teams in 20 sports generating $14+ Bil, UpStaged similarly organizes the completely fragmented 7.5 Mil. student performers (2 Mil. College, 5.5 Mil. HS) in 500,000 groups in 25+ genres. UpStaged superimposes profitable sports models (i.e. Championships, recruiting, NIL), empowering performers to compete for “March Madness Meets Pitch Perfect” type bracketed championships, $$ and glory like student athletes.In Feb, 2020, we produced, just before the pandemic, spectacular UpStaged “Step and the City” Step championships for $5k and a National Championship (won by Tufts over Buffalo State) featuring Celebrity judges, Ringling Brothers “Last Ringmaster” and Kushy (Flavor Flav’s “Growing up Hip Hop” daughter) as MCs and Broadway star N’Kenge singing the opening National Anthem, and closing “Lift up Your Voice and Sing” Black National Anthem (before the NFL or others). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vt7IQXdurIDuring the pandemic, we produced the biggest college National A cappella championships ever, groundbreaking “UpstagedAID” NCPA National Championships (64 team bracket from 5,000 groups nationwide won by Harvard over Vanderbilt) for $10k for groups and their select social Justice charities with 500+ media hits from Bloomberg to Broadway World including an NPR Morning Edition feature 4 Teams Head Into Finals Of Collegiate A Cappella Championship : NPR. Currently, UpStaged is producing biggest ever Fall 2021 NCPA College National DJ Championships.

U.S. Sports film Festival is the largest and only comprehensive U.S. based sports film festival . It celebrates both classic old favorites (I.E. Miracle, Hoosiers, We are Marshall, Invincible, Pride of the Yankees etc. ) and the best in new sports films prior to their general release. Every film screening features a special event or panel of the actors, athletes and directors involved in their creation. In addition to the typical Festival parties and events, the Festival essentially is business center for sports films and the industry featuring, among other things, Hollywood Sports Studio casting tryouts (casting, costuming and setting agent for most of the biggest sports films), a Sports & Film Continuing Legal Education program (drawing sports, entertainment and film attorneys from across the country), the Festivals version of its Academy Awards , Sports Film Hall of Fame induction, a Sports Making a Difference (SMAD) in Society Film program and groundbreaking panel discussions from athletes who have never talked about certain historic experiences before in the context of the films. Board of Advisors includes a number of prominent Sports and Film Industry executives including:Bill Bergofin (Senior VP, Marketing, Versus Network), Bonnie Bernstein, (ESPN Studio Host), Mark Ciardi, (Leading Hollywood Sports Film Producer), Bill Colson, (Former Managing Editor, Sports Illustrated) Mark Ellis (Founder, Hollywood's Sports Studio), Jeff Gewirtz, (General Counsel, New Jersey Nets and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment) Bud Greenspan, Pre-eminent Olympic Sports Documentary Producer), Cabot Orton, (Founder SlamDunk Film Festival at Sundance), Vince Papale, (Former Philadelphia Eagle and subject of film "Invincible"), Dr. Harvey Schiller, (former head of YankeeNets, the US Olympic Committee and Turner Sports), Jerry Solomon (President of Stargames and Sports Agent and Sports event Producer), Robert Towne (Academy Award Winning Screenwriter) and others.

Led Business Development in bringing in new clients, with a focus on investment banking, M&A and activist defense.

Apollo Management is an integrated private equity, capital markets and real estate investment platform and also has significant experience in commodities/natural resources. The firm has over $80 billion of assets under management and is a value-oriented investor with the ability to invest in all economic environments.Current role is leading global acquisitions team in making bolt-on middle market acquisitions worldwide for existing Apollo portfolio companies.

Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions for Fortune 500 and small businesses. In summary, EuroConsult is a boutique investment bank with offices here on Park Avenue in New York, as well as London, Frankfurt and Prague. Engage in a broad range of M&A activity, but pretty well recognized by many Fortune 1,000 and smaller companies as buy-side M&A specialists, with a long and documented track record of systematically finding and bringing $10 million - $200 million add-on acquisitions to clients in non auction situations through a somewhat proprietary process. Ultimately, we create an on-going “pipeline” of opportunities, ensuring that our clients never find themselves starting at ground zero searching for new targets when negotiations with one target may happen to break down or after the client finishes the often labor intensive process of actually closing an acquisition.

Mergers and Acquisitions and financing for middle market businesses

Mergers and Acquisitions

Investment banking, Leverage Finance and Financial Sponsors

Investment Banking, Financial Sponsors and Internet Groups