Cole Gahagan

IMG College LLC operates as a collegiate sports marketing company. It offers multimedia rights, licensing, digital, publishing, ticketing, seating, fundraising, and consulting services to the collegiate market. The firm holds rights in intellectual property, experiential and promotional assets, event signage, digital, tickets, hospitality, live event radio, and shoulder programming, including coaches’ TV and radio shows. The company was founded in November 2007 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

Learfield Communications LLC manages the athletic multimedia rights for collegiate institutions and associations. The firm also owns Learfield News, its operating unit that provides state news and agriculture programming to radio stations throughout America?s Heartland, serving the needs of the listeners and advertisers throughout the Midwest. The company was founded by Clyde Lear and Derry Brownfield in 1972 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Vertical Alliance, Inc. provides customer software solutions. The firm offers customer interaction and ticketing solutions to the sports as well as media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Tickets.com, Inc. provides ticketing solutions for live events. Its products include tickets phone & home, private label, mytickets, fund development and event ticket insurance. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.