Richard is a lawyer and CPA and is Counsel in the Canadian law firm, Stikeman Elliott LLP. He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1978 and for some twenty years was responsible for all television and marketing activities of the IOC. He is past president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and was a double Olympic finalist in swimming and a 1962 Commonwealth Games champion. Pound was the inaugural president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and is the current chairman of Olympic Broadcasting Services. He is Chancellor Emeritus of McGill University. He has...

Norm is chair of the world-ranked Department of Sports Administration in the College of Business at Ohio University. He also holds the Richard P. & Joan S. Fox Professor of Business at Ohio.
In 2013, he was recognized as one of the “Five to Watch” in sport business in Canada by The Globe and Mail. Previously a faculty member at the University of Ottawa, Syracuse University, LaurentianUniversity, and Ryerson University, Norm has also held visiting positions at Stanford University (two occasions) and the University of New South Wales in Australia. Norm is an active consultant and...

Norm is chair of the world-ranked Department of Sports Administration in the College of Business at Ohio University. He also holds the Richard P. & Joan S. Fox Professor of Business at Ohio.
In 2013, he was recognized as one of the “Five to Watch” in sport business in Canada by The Globe and Mail. Previously a faculty member at the University of Ottawa, Syracuse University, LaurentianUniversity, and Ryerson University, Norm has also held visiting positions at Stanford University (two occasions) and the University of New South Wales in Australia. Norm is an active consultant and...

Norm is the Richard P. & Joan S. Fox Professor and Chair of the world-ranked Department of Sports Administration in the College of Business at Ohio University.

In 2013, he was recognized as one of the “Five to Watch” in sport business in Canada by The Globe and Mail. Previously a faculty member at the University of Ottawa, Syracuse University, Laurentian University, and Ryerson University, Norm has also held visiting positions at Stanford University (two occasions) and the University of New South Wales in Australia. Norm is an active consultant and expert legal witness...

Christopher Yandle spent more than 10 years in college athletics, most recently as the assistant AD for communications at Miami and Georgia Tech. During his career, he assisted in the highly successful Robert Griffin III Heisman Trophy campaign in 2011, and he was recognized as the 2014 CoSIDA Rising Star by his peers. He now runs his own social media and public relations strategy consulting firm. A native of Houma, Louisiana, he attended the University of Southern Mississippi for two years before transferring to the University of Louisiana at Layfayette, where he graduated in 2004 with a...

Jimmy Sanderson, PhD, earned a BA, MA, and PhD from Arizona State University in communication studies. He is currently a visiting assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Prior to entering the academy he worked in human resource management for 11 years. He maintains an active research agenda focused on the intersection of social media and sport, and he also conducts research related to health and safety issues in sport. He has been cited in media outlets such as USA Today, Chronicle of Higher Education, and ESPN.com...

Richard Leonard, PhD is currently a Professor of Business Administration/Management at Flagler College in Tallahassee, Florida. His primary teaching focus is in Strategic Management with secondary instruction in Human Resource Management and Marketing. For eight years at Flagler, Dr. Leonard was the Department Chair for Business Administration and Accounting.