Stephen M. Ross is the Chairman and co-founder of Relevent, the Chairman and Founder of Related Companies, and a devoted philanthropist. He formed Related in 1972 and today the company includes approximately 3,500 professionals. Related has over $60 billion in real estate assets owned or under development, including mixed-use, residential, retail and office properties in premier high-barrier-to-entry markets. The company is also one of the largest owners and preservationists of affordable housing in the country. Related was recently named one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company Magazine. Ross is an investor in Equinox® Fitness Clubs, Equinox Hotels, and SoulCycle.

Additionally, Ross is the owner of the Miami Dolphins, an NFL franchise that has become one of the most fan-friendly in sports under his leadership.

Ross has always sought opportunities to give back in meaningful ways. His philanthropic efforts have broadly focused on the areas of education, the arts, racial equality, healthcare and the creation of more sustainable cities throughout the world. Furthermore, he has used his platform to harness the unifying power of sport to advance race relations across the country through the establishment of the nonprofit Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE). The organization’s efforts have been so impactful that RISE was recognized in 2017 by ESPN’s Humanitarian Awards with the Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award. In 2013, Mr. Ross pledged to give more than half of his estate to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations through the Giving Pledge, a long-term global initiative created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates that aims to inspire deeper engagement in philanthropy and increase charitable giving globally. Over the years, Ross has received numerous honors for his business, civic, and philanthropic activities. Most recently, he was inducted into the Nation Football Foundation Leadership Hall of Fame and received the Jackie Robinson Foundation ROBIE Lifetime Achievement Award.

Daniel Sillman is the CEO of Relevent, the world’s most influential privately-owned sports and media rights organization. Under Sillman’s leadership, Relevent has become the leading creative and strategic partner to the world’s top football properties and secured more than $4 billion in total media rights agreements on behalf of its partners, including the likes of UEFA, LALIGA, the Bundesliga, the Premier League, and the EFL.

In 2018, Sillman facilitated a landmark, first-of-its-kind 20-year deal with LALIGA that established a joint venture with Relevent to promote the Spanish league in North America. Sillman negotiated LALIGA’s record-breaking media rights deal with ESPN in 2021, which, at the time, marked the largest football media rights deal ever in the U.S. and Canada. He also spearheaded the media rights negotiation and sale of LALIGA’s rights in Mexico and Central America to Televisa Sky Sports in 2021. The following year, Sillman led Relevent to secure UEFA’s men’s club competitions media rights for the United States.

Sillman went on to help Relevent land exclusive English Football League fixture distribution rights throughout North, Central, and South America in 2024 and, later that year, struck a 17-year agreement to represent the Bundesliga in the sale of its media rights in North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean.

Sillman began his career founding and operating Compass Management, a multi-family office for professional athletes, which he later sold to FFO in 2015. Prior to joining Relevent, he sourced, structured, and executed on new investment opportunities as the Director of Business Development at RSE Ventures — a private investment firm owned by Stephen Ross. At RSE, Sillman led efforts focused on mid cap sports businesses such as Student Sports, which owns and operates Elite 11 Football and Area Code Baseball, among others. He then transitioned to Relevent, where he worked to bring El Clásico, a football match between Spanish rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid, to the US for the first time and outside of Spain for the second time in 100 years. Shortly after the Miami-based El Clásico in 2017, Sillman was named CEO of Relevent and began to lead the company’s transition from a live events company to the global media rights powerhouse it is today.

For these efforts, Sillman has been named to several sports business awards lists, including Leaders in Sports’ Leaders Under 40 (2022), Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 (2019), and Forbes Sports’ 30 Under 30 (2018). He co-led the development of high-profile companies such as fast-growing youth enrichment platform Rocket Youth. He also serves on the board of directors of RISE — a national non-profit that educates and empowers the sports community to eliminate racial discrimination, champion social justice, and improve race relations — and is a member of the FIFA World Cup 26TM Miami Host Committee Board of Directors.

Boris Gartner is President and Partner of Relevent, where he’s responsible for business operations and leads all strategic growth initiatives. He joined the company in 2018 to build and lead LALIGA North America, a 20-year joint venture between Relevent and LALIGA, Spain’s top-flight football competition and professional association. Gartner created a profitable operation across media and sponsorships and successfully expanded the scope beyond the U.S. to include Mexico and Central America. He was instrumental in the definition, negotiation, and execution of the media rights agreements in the territory, resulting in a $2 billion agreement with ESPN in the United States and Canada, and with Televisa/Sky in Mexico and Central America — the two largest media rights agreements for LALIGA outside of Spain.

Gartner played a key role in Relevent’s transformation from an events business into the dominant player in the global football media rights space. He was instrumental in helping the company secure UEFA’s men’s club competitions rights in the United States in 2022. Similarly, Gartner drove Relevent’s efforts to secure a media rights and content marketing mandate for the English Football League (EFL) across the Americas, and a 17-year commercial partnership with Bundesliga across North, Central, and South America. His prior international experience across Europe and Latin America has been essential in helping Relevent expand its business outside of the United States.

Previously, Gartner served as Chief Operating Officer for Grupo Televisa’s Content Division – the largest Spanish-language content producer in the world — where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business management, and company operations for the group’s content unit. Prior to joining Televisa, he served in different executive positions at Univision Communications Inc., including as part of the founding team and Chief Operating Officer of Fusion Media, a joint venture between Univision Communications Inc. and the Disney/ABC Television Group; VP and GM of Univision’s in-house digital studio; and VP of Strategy and New Initiatives for Univision Noticias.

Gartner has been recognized for Hispanic Executive’s Top Latino in Sports (2023), Sports Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty (2022), Leaders in Sports’ Leaders Under 40 (2020), National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications’ (NAMIC) NAMIC Luminary (2016), Cynopsis Digital’s IT List (2016), and Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders: TV Executives (2013).

He serves on the Board of the U.S. Soccer Foundation. From 2019 to 2025, Gartner was a board member of Washington, D.C.-based Polaris, the leading non-profit in the U.S. fighting to end human trafficking. He is also part of the 2019 Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports at Harvard Business School, the 2017 Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the 2013 Georgetown Leadership Seminar.

Matt Higgins is a noted serial entrepreneur, growth equity investor as Co-founder and CEO of private investment firm, RSE Ventures, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Burn the Boats.

Higgins began his career in public service as a journalist before becoming the youngest mayoral press secretary in New York City at 26, where he managed the global media response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He became one of the first employees – and ultimately Chief Operating Officer – of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the federally funded government agency created to plan the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. Higgins helped organize the largest international design competition in history culminating in Reflecting Absence, the September 11th National Memorial, and the development of the 1,776-feet-tall One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the northern hemisphere.

After transitioning to the private sector, Higgins spent 15 years in senior leadership positions with National Football League teams. He made his mark with two NFL franchises, overseeing the revenue functions of the New York Jets as Executive Vice President of Business Operations, and after leaving the Jets, serving as Vice Chairman of the Miami Dolphins from 2012 – 2021. Higgins co-founded New York City-based RSE Ventures in 2012, amassing a multi-billion-dollar investment portfolio of leading brands across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, consumer and technology industries – including several of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Higgins has also been a guest shark on Emmy award-winning TV show “Shark Tank”. He received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, joining the ranks of seven former U.S. presidents, Nobel Prize winners and other leaders for work to improve society. He is also a longstanding board member of Autism Speaks.