Marc Ruskin

XYIO takes a hands-on approach with its clients helping them identify and address their most critical challenges. Working primarily with founders and leadership teams, our collaborative and consultative approach yields highly specific recommendations with measurable results. We have worked with clients across the spectrum, including sports leagues, sports teams, sports technology organizations, media organizations, content distribution partners, venue operators, service providers, and investors. Though focused on a strategic perspective, deeply engaging in Go-To-Market strategy, and executing, we enjoy rolling up our sleeves and executing the plans helping teams avoid pitfalls while maximizing the probability for success. The company works across the strategy, technology, and revenue disciplines leveraging the nearly 30 years’ experience of its founder, Marc Ruskin.

REELY empowers governing bodies, leagues, teams, and events to create near real-time highlights from sports content using Artificial Intelligence. Content owners both have more video to monetize while simultaneously significantly reducing the costs to create it. The platform is based computer vision and deep learning to automatically identify, tag, clip and distribute sports highlights.

Having first been a customer, then serving as an Investor and Advisor to Reely, Mr. Ruskin will now serve in a more formal senior leadership role. Leveraging his network and experience, his primary focus will be on accelerating sales and supporting the CEO and Executive team.

Maestro provides a no-code video and live streaming platform that enriches the lives of the creator class by empowering them to unlock their economic potential. We are determined to usher in a new standard of ownership - to revive the American dream, for the digital age. To help creators take control of a radical paradigm shift in the creation, delivery, and sharing of meaningful experiences. We strive to help creators push the boundaries, reach their potential, inspire, innovate, elevate, get paid, to make an impact, to leave a legacy - all via a piece of digital real estate that they own. Marc joins Maestro in a dual role as COO & CRO. Having served as an investor, advisor, and operator in the technology industry for more than a decade, Marc brings unique experience and a wealth of knowledge to Maestro in a crucial growth period. Marc leads by example across a unique blend of operations, product, strategy, revenue, partnerships and sales.

PrestoSports is an all-in-one sports technology platform that helps Governing Bodies, Conferences, Leagues, and Teams engage and delight their fans. The depth and breadth of the platform is unmatched—offering partners the ability to deliver content across web, mobile, OTT and social. A division of Clubessential Holdings and backed by Battery Ventures, PrestoSports delivers a comprehensive solution for building athletic brands, igniting fans, and funding sports programs. Marc Ruskin joins the team to accelerate growth and provide strategic direction across the product suite. His perspective will help ensure PrestoSports extends its market-leading position as a partner to more than 1,400 clients across America.

FloSports is an innovative digital sports media company dedicated to unlocking a world of sports coverage that true fans deserve! The company is committed to growing the sport through the events, the athletes and the fans by providing each unique community with a platform to connect to the sports they love. Mr. Ruskin joins FloSports as an Advisor bringing his deep experience in sports technology and digital media to the company. Though the company will leverage his experience broadly, his primary focus will be helping FloSports achieve significant growth in the sport of ice hockey.

The payments system in the U.S. has fundamentally been the same for 40 years. That is about to change as a new system comes alive that dramatically simplifies the entire process-- from initiating the transaction through reconciliation. Payments will be made in seconds using Real-Time Payments (RTP) which brings together immediate funds availability, settlement, confirmation, and finality. All supported by integrated information flows with deep visibility and enhanced communication. PayFi enables merchant service providers, processors, banks, and FinTechs to cost effectively move money between bank accounts in real-time with flexibility, precision and 24x7x365 availability. The revolutionary payment platform, based on Artificial Intelligence, provides partners with the payment infrastructure needed to delight their customers and win against their competitors.

(PRM was acquired by PayFi in May of 2019.) Payment Relationship Management (PRM) provides consultative services and a SaaS based platform that help financial institutions navigate and succeed in the rapidly changing world of real-time payments.

Pixellot is the global leader in Automatic Sports Production with an ecosystem supporting the capture, production, encoding, and distribution of high quality video content. The companies products and services are used by content owners around the globe for both broadcast and coaching applications empowering organizations to capture more content at a lower cost than ever before. Marc Ruskin joined the Pixellot team after having been a customer of the product for over two years. He brought the Pixellot technology into HockeyTech, integrated it with the HockeyTV platform, and created a path for broad deployment of Pixellot units. In his role with Pixellot, Marc is responsible for the Global Strategy as well as Operations in the United States. He brings a wealth of experience in Sports Technology, specifically as it relates to digital broadcast ecosystems. Marc will work closely with the executive team to ensure strategic alignment, product market fit, and the successful execution of corporate growth initiatives.

In June, 2017, HockeyTech completed the integration of the Boston office into the Waterloo, Ontario headquarters. Operationally, the company was best served by having the on-premise management team, lead by RinkNet founder Jim Price, manage the company day-to-day. However, with his deep experience, broad industry contacts, and passion for the business, Mr. Ruskin and HockeyTech founder Stu Siegel found a new role that would keep Marc deeply involved with the company for the long-term. Today, Mr. Ruskin serves as the first ever Chairman of the company's Board of Advisors-- a board that he will build over the coming weeks and months.

HockeyTech stands as a worldwide leader in providing hockey-related technologies, analytics and information services. HockeyTech’s products are offered under the following brands: ISS Scouting, LeagueStat, RinkNet, NextTesting, FASTHockey, and HockeyTech Analytics. Marc Ruskin was the founder of FASTHockey, starting the company in 2005. He joined HockeyTech in April 2015 with HockeyTech’s acquisition of FASTHockey. Marc was promoted to President of HockeyTech in September 2015. Ruskin founded FASTHockey while coaching college hockey, and built it into the dominant provider of live and on-demand webcasting for amateur hockey. He brings a unique perspective to the HockeyTech management team, having a background in the sport as a player, coach, scout, and official. His professional career has focused on management, information technology, and business development. As an experienced entrepreneur, Marc has been involved with the start-up, growth, and operation of nearly a dozen technology focused ventures. He has hands-on experience as a developer, built a practice around human factors in interface design, has developed custom delivery methodologies, and held senior leadership roles from sales to marketing to executive management. His background also includes leadership roles at technology consultancies including Cambridge Technology Partners, c.w. Costello & Associates, CBSI, and CBE Technologies.

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading provider of Sport Life Management mobile applications for coaches, parents, and athletes and Sports Relationship Management tools for governing bodies, leagues, clubs, associations and events. SportsEngine, Inc. powers over 650,000 teams, leagues, and clubs, helping them manage, connect, and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including athletes, parents, administrators, coaches, referees, scouts, volunteers, fans, journalists, and sponsors. Founded in 2008, SportsEngine, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, MN. SportNgin (TST Media) acquired FASTHockey in August, 2013. After the acquisition, Marc Ruskin, the founder of FASTHockey, was promoted to Vice President of the company where his role broadened. He quickly grew from running the FASTHockey business to being a key member of the management team often tasked with critical initiatives by the company's founder and CEO. One key initiatives was the growth of Sport Ngin Advanced Media (SNAM) which saw the integration and further development of the FASTHockey platform into a multi-sport deliver mechanism.