Last event, we talked about blockchain and crypto with Denise Matthews, Operations Manager at GSX Blockchain Innovation Centre. Time to pick up where we left off talking to the CEO of one of the companies disrupting the sports contracts industry: Globatalent.
Sunil Bhardwaj, Ex Chairman of some clubs in the ACB (Professional Basketball association), CMO of MediaPro and at Formula1 & Club de Polo de Barcelona, is now the CEO of Globatalent.
Globatalent
CEO and Co-Founder
Sports marketing professional and co-founder & CEO of Globatalent, Sunil Bhardwaj, leads a team of expert individuals dedicated to giving talented sports men and women a fairer route into their professional careers, without financial burden. Globatalent is a decentralised blockchain-based tool where clubs and players can fund themselves by selling their future revenue rights to fans and investors.
Sports marketing professional and co-founder plus CEO of Globatalent, Sunil Bhardwaj, leads a team of expert individuals dedicated to giving talented sports men and women a fairer route into their professional careers, without financial burden. Globatalent is a decentralised blockchain-based tool where clubs and players can fund themselves by selling their future revenue rights to fans and investors. Sunil Bhardwaj, aged 41, graduated in 1999 with a diploma in sports management from the University of Greenwich, London and has since enjoyed an accomplished 18-year career in the sports industry. He has worked in many territories including Germany, Holland as well as his native Spain.
Globaltalent
Founder
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Startup Grind Andorra
Co-Director
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Ex-jugador profesional de Baloncesto entre los años 1984 y 2002, jugó en el F.C. Barcelona, Joventut de Badalona y Panathinaikos de Atenas Internacional. Jugó para el equipo olímpico 156 veces y cuenta con infinidad de títulos y reconocimientos deportivos, tanto individuales como colectivos.
Sin embargo, Ferran Martinez supo dar el salto al mundo de los negocios con éxito. Cursó estudios de programación e informática, así como análisis financiero y mercados de renta variable (CEF). Posee un E-MBA (La Salle, Universidad Ramón Llull, Barcelona, y Saint Mary 's University (San Francisco, EE.UU.)). Tras su retirada del deporte de alta competición, ha creado y ha dirigido unidades de negocio destinadas al asesoramiento y gestión de altos patrimonios de deportistas de élite y "Celebrity" en los grupos financieros UBS, Banco Sabadell, Mirabaud y Andbank.
Actualmente se ha especializado en la creación de startups tecnológicas, en los campos blockchain, Fintech, o quantum computing. Es socio y CEO de la compañía Dekaland y fundador de Globatalent (empresa blockchain de la industria del deporte). Así mismo, es socio de las empresas Entanglement Partners, consultora sobre computación cuántica, Fangazing, Lánzame Capital y World-Mastery (e-learning). Ha escrito cinco libros de "management", coaching y finanzas, y es conferenciante y coach. Colabora con la CEA (Confederación Empresarial de Andorra) como embajador económico para Estados Unidos, y asesora a la Federación de Andorra de Fútbol y al Gobierno de Andorra en temas de innovación.
CMO & co-founder at MarsBased, and Regional Director at Startup Grind for Southern EU.
MarsBased is a full-remote development consultancy from Barcelona specialised in web and mobile applications developed with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS and Ionic. Àlex runs the sales/marketing area and is in charge of communications & growth of the company.
In barely 2 years, he's done:
- 5-digit contracts within weeks of having launched the company.
- 6-digit contracts eight months after the creation of the company.
- Grown the company (LLC) to 10 full-time employees & 5 freelancers.
- International clients from three different continents, hailing from USA, Germany, Spain, Abu Dhabi, France, UK, Singapore and Finland.
- Providers for development of the core product for some of their clients.
- Featured in press for some of their outstanding projects like the Barcelona Startup Map, among others.
In 2015, Àlex became responsible for the expansion of the Startup Grind brand in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland)
His background in consulting & development (ex-Deloitte, ex-VASS) and his international profile helps him with the technical and the business perspective.
Crowdland Technology
Director
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