Ray Katz is a highly accomplished sports marketing professional with versatile expertise in the full spectrum of sports marketing disciplines. His experience spans across both client and agency side, working with leading brands like Mastercard, Major League Baseball, VF Corporation, and more. Ray's extensive background includes Senior Marketing Director at NFL PROPERTIES, INC., Managing Director at Optimum Sports, President at smartix international, and Managing Partner at Source1 Sports, to name a few. Ray holds a BS/MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania-The Wharton School, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from The Wharton School. He also developed the curriculum for the Masters in Sports Management program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently teaches sports sponsorship and media classes at NYU.