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Throughout Christian's career he has held leadership and operational positions for some of the world's most recognizable companies. In 2017, he developed a close relationship with the University of Texas football team. Working with them, Christian created their first program-wide technology strategy to enable coaches, players, and staff to rationalize technology investments, visualize analytics, and identify opportunities to improve player evaluation, physical performance, and recovery/health. With over 20 years of experience in the technology services industry, Christian has been instrumental in helping startups, Internet, and F100 companies build valuable businesses off of data-driven strategies.

Tom began his career helping law enforcement agencies develop innovative crime analytics and spatial crime forecasting software. After 10 years, Tom pursued a path that led him to the intersection of technology and football. With over a decade in coaching, including stops at Power-5, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and the highest level of junior college, Tom developed several qualitative and quantitative data analysis systems for assessing athletic performance and opponent tendencies. His experience with XOS, DV-Sport, and HUDL allows seamless integration with his Game Day II coaching solution, in-game data forecasting software and data collection. With his S.D.E. Performance solution, he has been able to recognize and develop each student-athlete based on true data-driven performance characteristics. Integrating the high-tech data driven world with coaching football has been something he has been passionate about since his days as a collegiate player in the early 1990s.

John brings more than 20 years of hands-on technology and leadership experience to the team. He is an impassioned engineer, open source advocate, free-time hacker, fitness junkie, and US Armed Forces Veteran.

Tom is currently the Head Coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls. Prior to 2023, Tom worked for the Chicago Bears offensive staff after spending the previous four seasons as head coach at the University of Texas, where he compiled a 32-18 record in four consecutive winning seasons with four bowl appearances.

Herman has over 23 years of coaching experience to the Bears staff, with prior stops at the University of Houston (2015-16), Ohio State (2012-14), Iowa State (2009-11), Rice (2007-08), Texas State (2005-06), Sam Houston State (2001-04), Texas (Graduate Assistant, 1999—2000) and Texas Lutheran (1998).Herman earned his first head coaching role at the University of Houston in 2015, where he became the fourth head coach in NCAA history with at least 13 wins in a rookie season, and just the fifth head coach in NCAA history to win the first 10 games of his career.

Herman has helped develop record-setting offenses as a head coach and offensive coordinator, including three seasons as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ohio State, where he won the 2014 Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach. He helped the Buckeyes win the 2015 College Football Championship (following the 2014 season) with third-string quarterback Cardale Jones under center in wins over Alabama and Oregon, and a Big Ten Championship win over Wisconsin.

Recognized by the White House with the appointment to the prestigious President’s Innovation Fellowship program as a Silicon Valley technology pioneer in the global digital revolution, John Trobough is a dynamic leader with operational expertise and vision to bring next-generation applications and technologies to the global marketplace, develop and execute strategic plans, ramp revenues and orchestrate successful exits.

John’s experiences span working as CEO & President of subsidiaries for Fortune 50 global companies, as well as turning around private equity backed firms, and earlier in his career as an entrepreneur and CEO of early stage companies.

As an outcomes-focused technology business leader, John has built high growth and top performing organizations from early stage to scale: pre-revenue to sales of $200M+ and 2,000 employees. John has extensive M&A experience in acquisition and divestment of technology-intensive assets and businesses, while maintaining and increasing shareholder value.

Rusty Whitt is the Head Strength & Conditioning coach for the Troy University Trojans football team. He previously served as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Army Black Knights football team at the United States Military Academy in West Point and as the Head Strength & Conditioning coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team from 2016−2018 and the University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team from 2010−2016. Coach Whitt has worked with various types of technology in the strength and conditioning field and leads our efforts to design the best coaching software solutions to save time and get the most from data.

Blake is a product of the University of Southern California who has a deep passion for planning, creating, and executing effective marketing campaigns to expand companies’ reach and potential customer pipeline. Prior to joining the team, Blake held sales positions in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals to sports and worked closely with CRM technology to successfully capitalize on consumer data. Blake has always been fascinated by the role that data plays in the world of sports and has set out to understand as well as show others the benefits of utilizing data to make more informed decisions.