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Mike Levy
Mike Levy is the founder and CEO of OPEN Sports, a next-generation sports internet service that offers breaking sports news and opinion, statistics, scores, social media tools, user generated content and fantasy sports applications. OPEN Sports recently entered into an agreement with FOX Sports to provide state of the art fantasy products on the FOXSports.com web site.
Mike is the founder and former CEO of SportsLine.com, Inc., a leading Internet sports media company and publisher of CBS SportsLine.com, NFL.com, PGA Tour.com and NCAA Sports.com. At SportsLine, Mike forged alliances with CBS Sports, AOL, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, the PGA Tour, the NCAA, various players' associations and many superstar athletes including Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Joe Namath, John Elway, Jerry Rice, Mike Schmidt and Wayne Gretzky.
Prior to founding SportsLine.com, Mike was CEO of Lexicon Corporation, a company he co-founded to develop and market the world's first electronic language translator. Under Levy, Lexicon went on to develop data communications terminals for the Department of Defense and Fortune 500 clients. Sports-Tech International, Inc., a Lexicon subsidiary, developed the video analysis systems which were used by a majority of NFL and NBA teams, and over 150 collegiate sports programs.
Mike was selected as one of The Sporting News 100 most powerful people in sports for three consecutive years (1999-2001). In 1999, he was given the Annual Achievement in Technology and New Media Award by UJA Federation of New York. In 1998, he was inducted by Georgia Tech's College of Engineering into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni. In 1997, Mike received the "Florida Entrepreneur of the Year Award" sponsored by Ernst & Young and the "1997 Interactive Entrepreneur Award" by the Interactive Services Association. Mike holds six patents for innovative high-tech products and received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1969.
Rob Phythian
As co-founder and President of OPEN Sports, Rob Phythian is responsible for the business leadership of the company, including corporate operations, business development and strategic partnerships. Along with OPEN Sports Chief Executive Officer Mike Levy and other senior executives, Rob drives the overall strategy and direction for OPEN Sports.
Prior to OPEN Sports, Rob founded Fanball.com in 1998, the largest pure play fantasy sports website on the net. In addition to building Fanball into the largest fantasy destination site, Rob struck several key third-party relationships for Fanball that included major deals with Turner Sports Interactive and AOL. Fanball also powered all of the fantasy games for NASCAR.com and PGATour.com from 2001-07.
In 2005, Fanball was sold to FUN Technologies, a publicly-traded company. Rob stayed with FUN after the sale and was promoted to President of the sports division. The portfolio of sports companies that FUN owned -- Fanball, Don Best, Fantasy Cup and CDM Sports -- were managed by Rob during a period from 2005 until 2007. From 1994-98, Rob was the founder and owner of the first weekly fantasy sports magazine, Fantasy Football Weekly. In just three years of publication, FFW grew to a circulation of over 500,000 and garnered one of the highest sell-through rates of all sports titles in the industry.
Rob is a Graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
Barry Carpe
Barry Carpe is a successful business, sales and product development executive with over 14 years media, sports and entertainment experience in the web-based digital media and cable television industries. As co-founder and Chief Product Officer at OPEN Sports, Barry directs all operational functions of the company - from product development and marketing, to content creation, technology development and quality assurance. Passionate about digital media and its possibilities, Barry supports open development models that stimulate communication, teamwork, creativity and innovation.
Prior to OPEN Sports, Barry was Vice President and General Manager at Fourth Wall Media (formerly Biap Inc.), where he was recruited to build Forth Wall’s interactive television sports practice. In his role at Fourth Wall, Barry directed many of their product management and client development efforts including Time Warner Cable and NBC Universal, with whom he launched Emmy-nominated Fantasy Football and NBC Olympics applications. Other partners included ESPN, Dish Network, and eBay.
Before joining Fourth Wall, Barry spent over eight years with the AOL in their sports division, at the time one of the largest online sports properties in the world. During this time, Barry held key positions in business, sales and product development. This included managing AOL's fantasy sports business, as well helping to manage strategic partnerships with the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR, Fanball, CBS SportsLine, Turner Sports, HBO, Sports Illustrated and the USTA. During his time at AOL, Barry also worked closely with their sales organization to develop custom sponsorship, branded entertainment experiences and promotions.
Barry graduated with honors from the University of Hartford in 1994 with a degree in Business Administration.
Dave Marchetti
David Marchetti joined OPEN Sports Network, Inc. in May of 2008 as part of the founding group. Dave is the VP of Finance and Operations. In this role he is responsible for monthly financials, pro forma modeling and cash flow analysis. Dave also brings past experience to direct Customer Support, the Live Data Entry Group, System Administration & Quality Assurance to develop efficient processes for future growth.
Prior to OPEN Sports, Dave joined Fanball.com in 1999 as part of the founding group for one of the largest fantasy sports sites on the web. In 2000, Dave became the head of operations for Fanball. In that role he helped architect, build, and manage a highly scalable fantasy sports site that produced more than 200 million page views a month during the NFL season. Fanball became profitable in 2002 and grew at a rapid rate until it was sold for $22 million in June of 2005 to FUN Technologies, a publicly traded company.
Dave stayed with FUN Technologies after the sale of Fanball and was responsible for all operations of the FUN Sports group, a division of FUN Technologies. He also helped expand the Fanball brand into Europe, and helped grow the customer support department, product monitoring group, Quality Assurance team, information technology staff, and developer team to meet revenue/customer growth.
In 2006 Dave became Director of FUN Technologies' In-game Stats division. In-game Stats was built to be a strong competitor to Stats LLC., by providing a level of service and product unmatched by its competitor. Mr. Marchetti managed the In-game Stats division up to the date of his departure in early 2007.
From 1988 to 1999 Mr. Marchetti worked as a Certified Public Accountant in the tax and audit departments for the following public accounting firms: Price Waterhouse, Eide Bailly LLP; McGladrey & Pullen, LLP.
From 1981 to 1988 Mr. Marchetti had owned or co-founded, Tempest Foods (d/b/a La Pointe Café), Hare and Tortes Foods, and Acoustic Reflex.
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Two Ground-Breaking Fantasy Games
Posted on August 8, 2010
I am excited to announce a number of exciting initiatives being released today from the team at OPEN Sports. To begin, we have re-launched our website under the name “Fantasy Live” to better reflect the site’s mission and purpose… to provide real-time content, analysis and tools that offer a competitive advantage to fantasy game players.
