Rob Phythian has served as SharpLink Gaming’s President and CEO since he co-founded the Company in 2019. From 2015 through June 2021, he also served as CEO — and remains a member of the Board of Directors — of SportsHub Games Network, Inc., a fantasy sports consolidation and daily game operator. Before SportsHub, Phythian served as CEO of Sports Data, a sports content provider which he co-founded in 2010 and later sold in 2013 to Sportradar AG, an international sports data company. Earlier in his career, he founded Fanball.com, an online fantasy sports site and publisher of the first weekly fantasy sports magazine; in 2005 Rob Fanball.com to FUN Technologies, a publicly traded company based in London.