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Courtney Lauer
Courtney Lauer has spent the last nine years developing innovative marketing strategies for Turtle Wax. Working with a cross-functional team, Courtney manages a robust innovation process that has led to the successful launch of dozens of new products including the popular Headlight Repair Kit, award-winning Dash & Glass and top-selling MAX Power Car Wash. Leading global marketing at Turtle Wax, Courtney is focused on driving brand advocacy through the development of relevant consumer content across multiple platforms in more than 90 countries. Her thought leadership has been fundamental to the brand’s entrance into eSports. Turtle Wax is the first car care brand to champion the eSports community and connect two of the audiences’ passion points – cars and gaming.
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Chris Pizzurro
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Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez
Carlos Rodriguez: Founder and CEO of G2 Esports, Carlos is an entrepreneur whose main focus surrounds esports and gaming. Having competed as a professional esports player for nine years while negotiating his own royalty and sponsorship deals has given him enough experience and grasp of the market to understand its trend and behaviour. After having a remarkable success competitively speaking for about nine years, he started looking for new heights. It was then when he decided to build his own esports club using the skills and abilities he already started developing.
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Bo Daly
Bo Daly is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Super Evil Megacorp, the developers of the world’s leading mobile esport, Vainglory. As CBO, Bo manages all aspects of Super Evil’s business and publishing operations. Vainglory boasts more than 12 million registered accounts and 1 billion matches played. Vainglory experienced a monumental first year in esports in 2016, awarding the largest prize pool ever for a mobile esport at $120,000 and generating 25,000+ concurrent views for its inaugural World Championship. The community has welcomed some of the largest esports franchises in the world to the Vainglory lineup, including Misfits, Echo Fox, Fnatic, NRG, Immortals and Rogue. Bo began his career at Rockstar Games, helping launch the hit Red Dead franchise. He left Rockstar to develop free-to-play MMOs at startup Gazillion Entertainment, where he served in a wide variety of roles, ranging from engineering to business development to operations.
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Andy Vander Woude
Andy Vander Woude is CEO and Founder of Next Generation Esports (NGE), an esports production and entertainment company. Andy is a lifelong gamer who has founded, raised money for, and led a startup and small-cap public company through successful exits. Since January 2015, NGE has created high-caliber esports content for the next generation of competitive gaming titles, including Rocket League, Vainglory, and Clash Royale. NGE pushes the industry forward by seeking out the most ambitious esports partners to elevate their communities, games, and spectator experience.
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Andy Miller
Andy is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded a number of start-ups with successful exits including Quattro Wireless which was acquired by Apple in 2009 and become Apple’s mobile ad network, iAd. At Apple, Andy served as Vice President of Mobile Advertising, reporting directly to Steve Jobs. He presently sits on the board and advises a number of companies including the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, which he is a minority owner. Andy is a co-founder of Starting Five Partners, a Palo Alto and Boston-based start-up incubator, as well as NRG ESports, a leading North American video gaming club competing across numerous gaming titles.
Andy was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Union College and Boston College Law School.
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