Experienced executives, investors, and entrepreneurs
Tim Hayden | Co-Founder & Managing Dir
Besides being a Senior Adjunct Professor at Saint Louis University, Tim is the head of their internationally-renowned Center for Entrepreneurship where he has mentored almost 500 startups. He helped the university expand their #9 ranked Entrepreneurship academic program and launch a Sports Business program (Minor, Major and Masters). In addition, he has successfully launched and run several sports technology companies and helped to create and build several professional soccer teams including Saint Louis Athletica (WPS) and AC St. Louis (NASL).
Art Chou | Co-Founder & Director
Art is the former SVP of Product for Rawlings where he directed product management, development, and innovation teams for all equipment and apparel categories. Prior to Rawlings, his past includes positions as the head of Golf Club R&D at Titleist and the Technical Editor for Golf Digest. In addition, Art helped launch and run start-up Pixl Golf in the early 2000s. He holds degrees in engineering from Univ. of Pennsylvania and Drexel and helped launch the Rawlings Sport Business Management program at Maryville University, where he is still an adjunct professor.
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Brandon Janosky | Managing Director
Brandon led business development and institutional portfolio management for Detalus for over 10 years in the financial services industry and has served in a consulting role to early-stage technology companies focused on sports and financial services for the past three years with Detalus. Additionally, he has also served for the past three years as a mentor with Stadia Ventures for various companies participating in the Stadia Accelerator Program. A graduate of Villanova University, Brandon previously worked as an engineer in Washington Group International’s Power Division designing and analyzing emission reduction components.
Joe Pimmel | Managing Director
Joe has over 14 years providing strategic financial and operational guidance to privately-held businesses across the life cycle spectrum. From 2011 to 2017, Joe led due diligence teams for the Billiken Angel Network, which was ranked nationally as one of the top angel investment groups in 2015 and 2016 in terms of number of deals closed. For the past several years, he has led capital formation and finance as CFO/COO for numerous early-stage companies while focusing on the operational implications of technology, sales/marketing, and human resources. Additionally, Joe spent over 10 years as a Senior Manager with RubinBrown LLP where he worked primarily with private equity and construction clients. Joe holds degrees in Accounting and Finance from Indiana University.
What People are saying
Tyler Feret, Founder and CEO
Most notable was the broad range of expertise the speakers brought to the table. We had consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technologists – just about everyone that you would want to get advice from as you’re growing a business. Our company specifically used financial recommendations, improved the clarity of our brand messaging, and changed our partnership strategy, all resulting from advice given by the speakers.
Brian Jensen, CEO
I can definitely say the program is invaluable to my company and my professional development. Each week we focus on different important elements related to creating great brands and businesses.We have thought leading speaking guests, beneficial exercises and we receive very constructive critiques that make our businesses better.
Matt Sebek, Founder/CEO
The weekly content from Stadia has been substantial, the keynote speakers have been influential, and the mentorship has been invaluable. Stadia hasn’t just surrounded our group with big-thinkers; they’re also individuals that have experienced success. Amongst the companies that we’ve personally interacted with: Under Armor, Getty, Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the St. Louis Blues – just to name a few.
Joe Shuchat, Founder and President
The Stadia Accelerator has been a game changer for our business. The guest speakers they’ve brought in have been world class industry leaders. The mentor team has put us in a position to take our business to the next level. I would strongly recommend Stadia to any and all sports startups.
Will McIntosh, SVP of Business Development & Strategy
GolfNow always has been a company with a start-up spirit, so it’s great to see accelerators like Stadia helping entrepreneurs down the path to realizing their full potential as a business. With GolfNow’s investments in sports and technology, we understand the importance of entrepreneurship and fully support programs like these.
Hunki Yun, Director, Strategic Projects
Stadia has opened my eyes to some great avenues for thought and innovation. This exposure is a great help in directing the USGA’s activities.
Chris Zimmerman, President & CEO
Stadia is creating a powerful program to fuel activity in the sports entrepreneurial marketplace. Great resources, advisors and a passion for innovation makes the Stadia program an invaluable launch pad for emerging concepts.
Dan Farrell, SVP for Sales and Marketing
Stadia Ventures truly fills a void by helping entrepreneurs bring innovation to the world of sports. The St. Louis Cardinals have enjoyed partnering with Stadia and their cohort companies as they develop new sports technologies and innovations. We look forward to helping Stadia transform St. Louis into one of the leading sports innovation hubs in the world.
Akshay Khanna, VP of Strategy
The Stadia Ventures Demo Day was an incredible experience. Getting to see their broad network of advisors and mentors, and understanding the guiding role they’ve played in the success of the startups in their program was an inspiration for new accelerators such as ours. I look forward to continuing to work with Stadia- they’ve been amazing partners and have been instrumental in helping to set up the infrastructure here at the Sixers Innovation Lab.