BY: NICHOLAS COUGHLIN

Paul Tsuchiya

Vice president of Event and Sponsorship Marketing, for

Visa

WHAT HE DOES

He’s responsible for creating a relationship between his company and any outside marketing asset.

On a daily basis he talks to partners and negotiates with potential and established clients about marketing pitches

Received his BA From UCLA and a JD from Harvard

Assistant VP for the

1994 World Cup

International VP for IMG from

1995-2001

COO for the Recording Academy

2001-2003

Vice president of Event and Sponsorshi

p Marketing,

for Visa

ADVISE TO ASPIRING SPORTS MARKETERS “Driving revenue is the quickest way to

move up the ranks, so that may be the best place to start, even if you don’t want to be in sales your whole life.”

INTERESTING FACT

He Helped bring the Grammy’s back to NYC in 2003 after a 5 year period of it not being there.

SCOTT BORAS

Birthday: November 2, 1952

From: Newport Beach, California Grew up in Sacramento, California

CAREER PATH

Went to the University of the Pacific and walked onto the Baseball team, leading the team with a .312 batting average In 1972.

Played 4 years of minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs but his career was stopped short due to knee problems.

Boras returned to the University of the Pacific and earned his law degree in 1982.

He then went onto associate in the pharmaceutical defense department of the Chicago firm Rooks, Pitts & Poust. He defended drug companies against class-action lawsuits. He worked here for one year

In 1983 he started to focus fully on being a sports agent and negotiated one of the largest contracts in baseball history and started Boras Corp.

BECOMING A SPORTS AGENT/BIGGEST CHALLENGE

Boras decided to become a sports agent one day after spring training and he realized the people around him and him himself didn’t know their financial future. He was very adamant about providing for his parents back home so playing with a bum knee wasn’t very promising.

The biggest challenge for Boras is making sure that all of his clients get what they deserve and that they feel that they’re #1 in his heart.

WORKING/ADVICE

Scott Boras works 24 hours a day 7 days a week and 365 days a year just like every other sports agent.

“If you wake up and you don’t want to work , this job isn’t for you”

VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGPJM-gDrM