The Team

Rob Phythian founded Fanball.com, the largest fantasy sports, pure play website on the net in 1998. In addition to founding Fanball as the largest fantasy destination site, Mr. Phythian struck several key third-party relationships for Fanball that included major deals with Turner Sports Interactive and AOL. Fanball also powered all of the fantasy games for NASCAR.com and PGATour.com from 2001-07.

In 2005, Fanball was sold to FUN Technologies, a publicly-traded company. Mr. Phythian stayed with FUN after the sale and was promoted to President of the sports division. The portfolio of sports companies that FUN owned -- Fanball, Don Best, Fantasy Cup and CDM Sports -- were managed by Phythian during a period from 2005 until 2007. From 1994-98, Mr. Phythian was the founder and owner of the first weekly fantasy sports magazine, Fantasy Football Weekly. In just three years of publication, FFW grew to a circulation of over 500,000 and garnered one of the highest sell-through rates of all sports titles in the industry.

Mr. Phythian is a Graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

Barry Carpe is a business, sales and product development executive with over 11 years media, sports and entertainment experience in the Internet and cable television industries. Mr. Carpe most recently was Vice President and General Manager of Biap Inc., where he leveraged his experience to lead all aspects of Biap’s sports business, including strategy, planning, business development, product development, marketing and strategic partnerships.

Before joining Biap, Mr. Carpe spent over eight years with the AOL Sports division, at the time one of the largest online sports properties in the world. During this time, Mr. Carpe held key positions in business, sales and product development. During his time at AOL, Mr. Carpe also worked closely with AOL’s sales organization to develop custom sponsorship, branded entertainment experiences and promotions.

Mr. Carpe graduated with honors from the University of Hartford in 1994 with a degree in Business Administration.

Mark Hennessy founded GripIron.com in 2007, an innovative fitness website offering the GripIron Fitness Challenge. In 2005, Mr. Hennessy began working for Fanball.com and led the software development for their new SportsMedia division. Mr. Hennessy led the development of the proprietary sports data entry tools used by the SportsMedia division's data entry team to completely cover dozens of sports and leagues.

From 1999-2002, Mr. Hennessy was a senior software developer at SportsLine.com. He developed a proprietary, highly-scalable streaming solution for SportsLine, known as the Live Publishing System (LPS). The introduction of LPS significantly reduced server load dramatically improving the user experience.

Mr. Hennessy is a Graduate of Florida International in Miami, FL and holds Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Economics, and Sociology.

Bruce Jaret is a 22-year media industry veteran who has played a leading role in the online advertising industry, most recently as Vice President with CBS SportsLine. At SportsLine, Mr. Jaret played a key role in building out one of the most successful and industry-leading sales and sales support groups, which ranged from Sales Development and Advertising Operations to Market Research.

Prior to joining SportsLine, Mr. Jaret was Director of Sales Research and Marketing for Sports at Turner Broadcasting. Earlier in his career, he held sales and marketing positions with Blair TV and Telemundo.

Mr. Jaret graduated from S.U.N.Y College at New Paltz with a degree in Communications.

David Marchetti joined Fanball.com in 1999 as part of the founding group for one of the largest fantasy sports sites on the web. In 2000, Mr. Marchetti became the head of operations for Fanball. In that role Mr. Marchetti helped architect, build, and manage a highly scalable fantasy sports site that produced more than 200 million page views a month during the NFL season. Fanball became profitable in 2002 and grew at a rapid rate until it was sold for $22 million in June of 2005 to FUN Technologies, a publicly traded company.

Mr. Marchetti stayed with FUN Technologies after the sale of Fanball and was responsible for all operations of the FUN Sports group, a division of FUN Technologies. Mr. Marchetti also helped expand the Fanball brand into Europe, and helped grow the customer support department, product monitoring group, Quality Assurance team, information technology staff, and developer team to meet revenue/customer growth.

In 2006 Mr. Marchetti became Director of FUN Technologies' In-game Stats division. In-game Stats was built to be a strong competitor to Stats LLC., by providing a level of service and product unmatched by its competitor. Mr. Marchetti managed the In-game Stats division up to the date of his departure in early 2007.

From 1988 to 1999 Mr. Marchetti worked as a Certified Public Accountant in the tax and audit departments for the following public accounting firms: Price Waterhouse, Eide Bailly LLP; McGladrey & Pullen, LLP.

From 1981 to 1988 Mr. Marchetti had owned or co-founded, Tempest Foods (d/b/a La Pointe Café), Hare and Tortes Foods, and Acoustic Reflex.

Ken Mark has been working in technology for 18+ years and in senior technical management for 13. In 1995 Mr. Mark ran the technology department of a start up internet service provider, Surf Network, which was the 12th company acquired by Verio in 1997. In 1997, Mr. Mark began working at CBS SportsLine leading the design and build out of their network infrastructure and data centers to handle the ever increasing traffic patterns of the various sports seasons.

Since 2003, Mr. Mark has held various senior technical management roles at ABC Distributing, eDiets.com, Blue Frog Solutions and World Avenue. He was also an early proponent and adopter of virtualization technologies.

Mr. Mark is a Graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and holds a degree in Computer Information Systems.

Don Silvestri has over 10 years experience as a senior marketing executive with expertise in the areas of marketing, brand management, advertising, lead generation, product positioning, sales program development and partner relationship management.

Most recently, Mr. Silvestri served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for IAG Interactive. IAG Interactive is one of the leading providers of performance-based online marketing solutions with a multitude of categorically and demographically targeted websites and affiliate networks. Mr. Silvestri was responsible for the development and growth of over 70 online properties and the launch of several affiliate networks.

Prior to joining IAG, Mr. Silvestri spent 6 years with CBS Digital Media / CBS SportsLine.com. As the Director of Marketing, he was responsible for all marketing operations, advertising campaigns and consumer retention efforts for the CBS brands, their Fantasy Sports products and partner websites including CBS SportsLine.com, NFL.com, PGATOUR.com and NCAASports.com.

Additionally, Mr. Silvestri played professional football for nine years as a field goal, kick-off and punting specialist. His professional sports career in football was spent with various teams from 1992-2001. He played with the New York Jets from 1995-1997, where alongside teammates Boomer Esiason, Wayne Chrebet and Keyshawn Johnson, he led the AFC in touchbacks in 1995, and had a 46.7 yard punting average. He also played with the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks. Mr. Silvestri also spent time in the CFL, NFL Europe and the Arena Football League.

Mr. Silvestri earned dual degrees in Marketing and Business Administration from University of Pittsburgh where he was an Academic All-American playing two years of division one college football under coaches Paul Hackett, Jon Gruden and Mike McCarthy.

Mr. Berman has over 18 years of senior media sales, business development, management and marketing experience. During the course of his successful career he has worked for a variety of leading public and private media/online properties including Katz Media Group, CBS Sportsline, Cars.com, NBC Internet and Clear Channel Entertainment.

Mr. Berman has been directly responsible for driving top line revenue and sponsorship sales totaling over $51 million dollars, in addition to building and managing ad sales and sales support teams across the US. Throughout his career he has worked with brands including BP Amoco, Virgin Entertainment, Dentyne, Discover Card, GE Money, General Motors, Toyota Motor Corporation, William Morris Agency, Miller Beer, Universal Music, EDS, State Farm, Capital One, Shell Oil, Sprint, Kohl’s, DreamWorks Pictures, Sony-BMG Music and MLB Properties.

Most recently, Mr. Berman has been the President and CEO of Integrate Marketing, LLC, a boutique entertainment marketing agency focused within the music, sports, lifestyle and digital arenas.