As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, Rick Horrow has been the architect of over 100 deals worth more than $20 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. Horrow pioneered the public/private partnership and infrastructure branding concepts that, to date, have enticed more than $4 billion in corporate funding to cities and development projects. Besides developing stadiums and arenas, Horrow’s ability to put together many urban initiatives into one package for voter approval has resulted in the building of new performing arts and convention centers, schools, libraries, transit projects, and tourist destinations.

A popular speaker, writer, and commentator on the business, law, and politics of sports, he is nicknamed “The Sports Professor” because he has been Visiting Expert on Sports Business at The Harvard Law School, where he received a law degree alongside Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, his college roommate. Horrow is Executive Editor of The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry (Human Kinetics, March 2019), as well as author of When the Game Is on the Line, an autobiographical examination of the people and politics behind mega sports deals, and co-author of Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider’s Guide to the Business of Sport.

In addition to providing regular sports business content to Bloomberg Radio and penning a weekly column for Yahoo! Finance, Horrow hosts monthly national television shows titled “Good Sports” and “The Icons”, which are carried by Bally Sports, formerly known as Fox Sports Networks, and other RSNs. His “Keeping Score” podcast and blog are weekly keystones of Thomson Reuters’ sports business coverage. Horrow’s clients have included the NFL, NHL, Major/Minor League Baseball, U.S. Polo, PGA Tour, NASCAR, Great White Shark Enterprises (Greg Norman), Ladies Professional Golf Association, Major League Soccer, General Sports Venue/AstroTurf, Edelman Financial, EVERFI, Citrix, Cisco Systems, CA, Guggenheim/Group One Thousand One, Globecast, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Golden Bear International (Jack Nicklaus), Portland Trail Blazers, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and the State of West Virginia.

He has been a key player in stadium, arena, and speedway deals in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Houston, Green Bay, San Diego, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and El Paso.

In his over 29 years of experience working in the music industry, Dave has developed relationships with many of the prominent music publishing companies and record labels in Nashville, TN. As a staff songwriter, Dave has had almost 100 songs recorded by major label artists such as Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Montgomery Gentry, Mark Chesnutt, Gary Allan, Craig Campbell, Craig Morgan, Jordan Davis, Randy Owen, Jake Owen, Darius Rucker, and Trace Adkins.

His writing credits include twelve top 40 radio singles including one top 25, three top 15, one top 10, and four number 1 singles. Dave has participated in countless songwriting forums and workshops for The Bluebird Cafe, Belmont University, Leadership Music Group, and The Nashville Songwriters Association International where he has served as an active board member for the past seven years.

In 2020, his friend and former MLB Cy Young award-winning pitcher, Barry Zito, introduced him to Music City Baseball executives John Loar and Alberto Gonzales who have been working diligently for the past several years to establish a future MLB baseball team for Nashville called “The Nashville Stars”, along with a new stadium they have plans to build. Dave has since been involved with The Nashville Stars, applying his connections and knowledge of the industry to connect the “Stars” of baseball with the “Stars” of the Nashville music scene.

Milton Santiago is known in the industry as a successful founder and leader creating innovative user experiences in the financial space. He is an award-winning inventor and holds over 30 patents covering mobile payments, data transformation and user experience to name a few. In 2015, one of his patents on mobile payment technology was ranked amongst the top 10 patents issued for that year.

Milton’s most notable accomplishments is the creation of digital banking experiences. All the platforms he has created have been award winning and industry recognized for transforming user experiences in digital banking. One of his most recognized accomplishments was the creation of Bank of America’s CashPro® Online, which is recognized as one of the top 3 digital banking platforms worldwide generating over a billion dollars in revenue annually.

Milton is also an accomplished content creator on YouTube. He has over 66 million views and over 166 thousand subscribers covering all things tech and sharing passive income strategies leveraging cryptocurrency. His channel ranks amongst the top .01% worldwide. Milton can be found in the speaker circuit, covering topics on innovation, digital banking, social media, consumer electronics and cryptocurrency.

One of the most dominant linebackers in Big Ten history, Tom Cousineau left Ohio State as the school’s leader in nearly every tackling category. He was distinguished as a two-time consensus First Team All-American for the Buckeyes under College Football Hall of Fame coach Woody Hayes. Tom has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (‘16), the Ohio State Sports Hall of Fame (’95) and is the recipient of the Silver Anniversary Butkus Award (‘03). When inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Cousineau’s 569 career tackles were second all-time in Ohio State History. Following his senior season, he was invited to play in the Hula Bowl, where he earned Defensive MVP honors. Cousineau would then become the No. 1 overall draft pick in 1979 NFL Draft and played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers.

After four years with Cleveland and two in San Francisco, Cousineau has enjoyed success in the business world. Following years of running a highway construction company, he partnered with MultiSource Communications, an e-commerce solutions company, and raised funds and marketed the Archestral software for use in the Healthcare industry.