Ryan Shinman

Ryan is founder and CEO of Platinum Rye Entertainment, the world’s leading provider of celebrity talent for advertising, marketing etc, with offices in Los Angeles, London, Paris, New York and Chicago. Schinman can claim responsibility for orchestrating some of the largest deals ever made between Madison Avenue and Hollywood. He has personally delivered Sean “Diddy” Combs to Pepsi, Madonna to Motorola, Jessica Simpson to Proctor & Gamble, and Sharon Stone to AOL, and negotiated the nine-figure deal between Cingular and MTV.

At the age of 20, a senior at the University of Florida, Schinman convinced a friend on the football team to let him negotiate his NFL contract.  From there, Schinman moved on to become a sports agent at Athletes & Artists and two years later was named CMO of Worldwide Sports and Entertainment.  At the age of 26, Schinman opened his own consulting company, Platinum Rye Entertainment which is now the largest celebrity, model buyer and music and clip licensing company in the world.

Mark Schelde

Mark is founder & sole owner of Gravity Sports Marketing, a full service sports marketing company. Gravity specializes in strategic consulting, promotional & internet marketing, media production & distribution. Gravity is currently the sports marketing agency for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and America Online, Inc. From 1999 to 2003, Gravity represented Yahoo! as their exclusive sports marketing agency before resigning the business to take over AOL’s NASCAR program. Gravity has proven experience in national sponsorships like NASCAR with AOL's #30 primary sponsorship with Richard Childress during the 2003 & 2004 season, as well as the PGA TOUR managing the Charles Schwab title sponsorship of the Champions Tour since 2003. They also have local sponsorship experience managing the Schwab deal with the San Francisco Giants.

Mark is also founder & co-owner of Eclipse Television & Sports Marketing that specializes in made-for-television events that air on national television (NBC, CBS, ABC & FOX). Since 1993, Eclipse has produced over 100+ one-hour national television specials in the United States. Jeep King of the Mountain Skiing, Honda King of the Surf, Sam Goody Musicland UnVailed Ultimate Band & Board Event, etc.