BERWYN, PA (May 15, 2024) – Playfly Sports, the Fan Focused and Data Driven leader in sports media, marketing and technology, has expanded its executive leadership team with the hiring of Nick Cartan as its Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial Strategy within Playfly Global Partnerships. Cartan will assume oversight of corporate business development, our Playfly Access partnership development group, and Playfly Premier sales efforts.
“I’m extremely excited to work alongside some of the most talented, knowledgeable, and passionate people in this business,” said Cartan. “Playfly has built a tremendous reputation as one of the very best places to work in sports. As I gathered opinions from respected peers, the universal feedback was that Playfly invests in their people, in their culture and togetherness. That’s exactly what I’m looking for at this point in my career. I know that my energy, positivity and leadership style will be additive to Playfly’s culture.”
In the new role, Cartan will join Playfly’s executive leadership team, reporting to Craig Sloan, President of Playfly Sports. Based out of Southern California, Cartan joins the Playfly team after serving as Chief Commercial Officer for Thrill One Sports & Entertainment, a next-generation content company that lives at the nexus of sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. In prior stops, he made impactful executive management roles with the World Surf League and Fox Sports.
“As we look to understand, exploit and measure and monetize fandom better than anyone, we wanted a new enterprise-level person touching everything we do commercially, and Nick is that person,” said Sloan. “As one example, we can now have our [data] insights teams better linked with our ideation and creativity for activation. This should help one inform the other — as it should be.”
“Having spent many years leading early-stage growth companies in this industry, I’ve learned that because markets evolve faster than properties, challenger businesses have always had to be more innovative, more intentional, more focused on value/ROI, and have had to adapt to change with more urgency and accuracy than more established companies,” continued Cartan. “The sports industry is in constant motion — now more so than ever. Those prior experiences have prepared me extremely well for this opportunity. I hope to bring an enhanced degree of imagination, insight, and tenacity to the way Playfly builds solutions for its partners and creates enterprise value across the entire business.”
Cartan will work closely with Sloan on go-to-market strategies, placing narratives in the market using our best-in-class insights unit. Among his numerous commercial strategy efforts, he’ll also craft new initiatives, including spearheading a new data visualization effort to capitalize on developing needs of prospective partners.
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Playfly Sports is a sports media, marketing and technology business centered around the team, league, brand, and network. Believing in ‘Fandom as a Service’ and focusing on a consultative, data driven approach to REACH, ENGAGE, MONETIZE AND MEASURE FANDOM gives the company’s partners and brands a competitive advantage. Playfly connects more than 2,000 brand partners with approximately 83% of all U.S. sports fans. Through the proprietary platform the business delivers scalable, data-oriented marketing, technology, and media solutions with capabilities including exclusive MMR management, sponsorship sales and activation, streaming, consulting, ticket/premium sales, all along with new revenue-driving platforms and technologies. Founded in September of 2020, Playfly Sports is now home to approximately 1,000 team members located across 43 U.S. states dedicated to maximizing the impact of highly passionate local sports fans. Follow Playfly Sports on social media @PlayflySports or visit www.playfly.com.
