Zachary Leonsis

Zachary Leonsis is President of Media & New Enterprises for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, a fully-integrated sports, entertainment, media and technology platform located in the heart of the “DMV” in downtown Washington, DC. Monumental is best known for its fan-facing brands including the NHL’s Washington Capitals, the NBA’s Washington Wizards, the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, the NBA 2K League’s Wizards District Gaming, the G League’s Capital City Go-Go, Esports juggernaut Team Liquid, Capital One Arena, and Monumental Sports Network. As President of Media & New Enterprises, Leonsis oversees all of Monumental’s media & network operations, team rights agreements, and media revenues. In addition, Leonsis also oversees all corporate development activities which include M&A, venture capital and private equity investment opportunities. Leonsis led the acquisition of NBC Sports Washington into Monumental. 

JC Tretter

JC Tretter, a Cornell University graduate, was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 2013 NFL Draft. He spent four seasons with the Packers before joining the Cleveland Browns in 2017, where he played for five seasons. 

In March 2020, Tretter was elected President of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) during the annual Board of Player Representatives meeting and was unanimously re-elected to a second term in March 2022. As President, he played a pivotal role in negotiating amendments to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), implementing critical COVID-19 safety protocols that safeguarded players’ health and ensured they received full salaries while completing a full season during the pandemic.

During his second term, Tretter spearheaded the NFLPA Report Cards initiative. This groundbreaking project surveyed over 75% of active NFL players, collecting qualitative and quantitative feedback on workplace conditions across all teams. The initiative not only informed players about disparities in working environments but also encouraged clubs to make substantial improvements. It has led to significant advancements across the league. After concluding his tenure as NFLPA President in March 2024, Tretter was appointed as the NFLPA’s Chief Strategy Officer on October 1, 2024.

Alexander Steinberg

Alexander Steinberg has extensive experience advising sports and media-related clients in a wide variety of transactional-based matters. 

He focuses on content licensing and distribution, corporate transactional matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, sponsorship matters, including naming rights agreement, gaming matters, including market access agreements, financing transactions, and other matters relating to general corporate practice.

Alex has represented buyers, sellers and sports franchises in the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer and European football leagues. In addition to representing clients in strategic transactional matters, Alex acts as an advisor to the firm’s sports and media clients on a wide range of general business law matters.

Alex regularly provides counsel to programming networks and other rights holders across a full spectrum of legal and strategic business matters, including domestic and international affiliation agreements (both with traditional distributors and “over the top” distributors), content distribution and licensing, and distribution via emerging technologies. Alex has previously worked in-house at ESPN, Inc. and the National Football League.

Kimberly Davis

Kimberly B. Davis currently serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs at the National Hockey League, and as the President of the NHL Foundation. In her capacity as a senior executive, Kim reports directly to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and focuses on attracting, developing and retaining fans – with a specific focus on multicultural audiences – through culture, youth participation, and social impact initiatives. As President of the NHL Foundation, she leads strategic funding and philanthropic investments aimed at community development, health and wellness, and promoting diversity and inclusion within the sport across North America.

Ms. Davis has been recognized as #1 on Sportsnet’s list of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Sports, as well as honored by Sports Illustrated in “The Unrelenting” Most Powerful Women in Sports and “100 Influential Black Women in Sports.” In addition, Ms. Davis has been recognized by Hockey News’ 2020- 2023 “Top 100” Most Influential Leaders in the Sport, Essence Magazine’s “Woke” 2019 Change Agents, Adweek’s “30 Most Powerful Women in Sports,” and Sports Business Journal’s “GameChangers.” She has also been featured in Savoy Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America” and Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business.” In 2012, Ms. Davis was profiled with First Lady Michelle Obama in Essence Magazine’s “28 Most Influential Black Women in America.”

Jennifer Ekeleme

Jennifer Ekeleme is the NHL’s VP of Multicultural Content and Audience Engagement and works cross-functionally between NHL Productions and the SGL (social impact, growth initiatives, and legislative affairs) group. Within the hockey universe, Jennifer leads the intersection of multicultural marketing, social impact, brand strategy, and equity practices – guiding the NHL towards the goal of improved cultural availability and awareness among underrepresented audiences.

Prior to her role with the NHL, Jennifer has held multiple leadership positions dedicated to DEI, brand strategy, and corporate coaching. In her previous role as Chief of Staff & Head of ED&I for The Black Sheep Agency, she developed and implemented the agency’s first DEI and learning development strategy. During her time as a consultant, she counseled CEOs and Fortune 500 brands on the intersections of culture and brand strategy; and indulged her passion for wellness and beauty brands by assisting founding entrepreneurs on launching brand marketing strategies.

Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Masters in Communication and Branding from esteemed portfolio school, VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, Virginia. She is a proud first generation Nigerian American and resides in the borough of Brooklyn, New York.

Jesse Shaw

Jesse Shaw currently serves as Vice President, Head of Sales and League Partnerships at Overtime. He leads the company’s commercial strategy, building brand partnerships that connect with Overtime’s core Gen Z audience to help solve unique client challenges. 

Before joining Overtime, Jesse served as the Head of Sales & Content Partnerships at Amazon’s Twitch, where he developed and executed groundbreaking streamer-led initiatives across sports, music, gaming, and entertainment. In this role, he was instrumental in integrating Twitch into Amazon’s broader Sports and Entertainment ecosystem, showcasing his expertise in live streaming and digital media. 

Previously, Jesse held key international (UK) and domestic roles at Bleacher Report and Turner Sports, where he developed cross-platform solutions for brands as part of the Global Sales and Partnerships division.

Kendall Baker

Kendall Baker joined Yahoo Sports in August 2023 as a senior writer and author of the "Yahoo Sports AM" daily newsletter. He previously spent five years at Axios, where he was the author of the "Axios Sports" daily newsletter. Prior to that, he founded “Sports Internet” (acquired by Axios) and started “The Hustle” newsletter (acquired by HubSpot). He began his career as a writer at Bleacher Report and a production assistant at ESPN.

Eric Amsler

Eric Amsler begins his 21st season with the HEAT and second as Vice President, Player Personnel/General Manager, Sioux Falls Skyforce. Amsler oversees the scouting department for the HEAT and the gathering of all information on potential prospects, draft, professional and G League. He continues to assist Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations/General Manager Andy Elisburg and Vice President, Basketball Operations/Assistant General Manager Adam Simon in personnel matters when it comes to both the HEAT’s NBA and Skyforce’s G League rosters. Additionally, he will continue to scout domestically and internationally for future prospects.

During his four years as General Manager of the Skyforce, the team has a G League high 24 call-ups, made one trip to the Western Conference Finals and two appearances in the Western Conference Semifinals. As a result of the organization’s success, Amsler received the G League Executive of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season after the Skyforce advanced to the Western Conference Semifinals for the second straight season. In the past two seasons the Skyforce has compiled a 63-42 (.600) overall record and had eight different players combine for 14 call-ups.

Over the past 20 years, Amsler has held numerous positions in the HEAT’s Basketball Operations department after initially joining the franchise as an intern for the 2004-05 season. He has served as the Scouting and Information Coordinator (2005-07), Scouting and Player Personnel Coordinator (2007-14), Director of Scouting Operations (2015-18), Director of Scouting/Assistant Director of Player Personnel/Assistant General Manager, Sioux Falls Skyforce (2018-19) and finally Director, Player Personnel/General Manager, Sioux Falls Skyforce (2019-23) before his current promotion.

A two-sport athlete in basketball and football, Amsler graduated from Dickinson College (PA) in 1999 with a degree in Psychology. Born and raised in Bellefonte, PA, Amsler resides in Biscayne Park with his wife, Veronica, and their three children, Isabelle, Sofia and Maximo.