Advisors & Leadership
The people who guide FAIR Sports bring experience from collegiate and professional sports, law, business, and competition itself.
Tye Gonser
Tye Gonser is a founding partner of Weinberg Gonser LLP, where he represents clients that are diverse in all respects, spanning growth-companies, start-ups, numerous female founded and led enterprises, family offices, active and retired professional athletes, entertainers, and other highly visible creatives. The commonality is that they are all people who want more than the traditional legal counsel experience and value authentic relationships.
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Oliver Luck
As President of Palmetto Trust Company, LLC and Chairman of Altius Sports Partners, Oliver Luck provides leadership experience spanning collegiate and professional athletics. His roles have included Commissioner of the XFL, Executive Vice President for Regulatory Affairs and Strategic Partnerships of the NCAA, and Athletic Director of West Virginia University.
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Jayma Meyer
Professor Jayma Meyer is a widely recognized expert in the field of sports law. She focuses on the power of sport to bring about social change through education, activism and litigation. Ms. Meyer, with a distinguished legal career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, is immersed teaching sports law and public policy at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, serving on leading boards and councils in the sports arena, and advising state and federal congressional offices and governmental agencies on issues relating to collegiate sports.
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Tim Nevius
Tim Nevius has been at the forefront of college sports legal matters since shortly after his own college baseball career at the University of Dayton. After graduating first in his law school class, he joined the NCAA as an investigator where he helped lead high-profile enforcement cases against major college sports programs.
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Nneka Ogwumike
2016 WNBA MVP, WNBA Champion, and 1st overall pick of the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2012 WNBA Draft, Nnemkadi, nicknamed “Nneka”, Ogwumike’s mission is to inspire others to discover their greatness with an open heart, enthusiasm, integrity, courage, and compassion.
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George Pyne
George Pyne, the Founder and CEO of Bruin Capital, is a highly respected leader in the global sports industry. For more than three decades, he has demonstrated the rare and unique ability to architect business transformation, realizing billions in revenue and shareholder value. Bruin, his latest venture, is a reflection of his experiences, specifically crafted to capitalize on industry change and turn burgeoning companies into global leaders of their sector.
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Jack Swarbrick
Jack Swarbrick is a distinguished leader in college athletics who most recently served as the Vice President and Director of Athletics at the University of Notre Dame from 2008 to 2024. During his tenure at Notre Dame, Swarbrick led numerous initiatives that significantly shaped the University’s athletic landscape and the broader college sports industry.
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Tara Vanderveer
The second-winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, Tara VanDerveer cemented herself as one of the top coaches in the sport, both collegiately and internationally, and is a member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2011) and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2002). She announced her retirement on April 9, 2024.
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