Greg Marotta
Greg Marotta started Select Sports, a professional athlete representation firm in 1980. In 1982 Marotta was among the first group of agents to be certified by the National Football League Players Association. In 1983 Select Sports served as a remote-site host for ESPN's NFL Draft Day Coverage, a distinction repeated in 1984 making it the first sports agency ever covered on draft day by any television network. By 1990 Marotta had negotiated over one hundred NFL and NBA contracts, in addition to numerous endorsement agreements for Select Sports' clients. Among the contract innovations he instituted was the "Grandmother Clause" that rewarded professional players with cash compensation for returning to college to attain their degree. Marotta also optioned a screenplay based on a client's life story as well as serving as a sounding board for the creators of the movie "Jerry Maguire."

In 1990 Marotta merged Select Sports with Main Events, the boxing promotional company owned by Dan Duva, forming a separate division, Main Events Teams, of which he served as Vice President and COO. Main Events Teams quickly became a force in the representation of professional athletes from the team sports of football, baseball and basketball. In addition to managing the careers of players from the world of team sports MET also managed the endorsement/marketing business of undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. This guidance produced a revolutionary alliance between Holyfield and NFL Properties similar to the one NFLP had created with golfer Payne Stewart.

In 1992 Marotta left MET to join NFL licensee Apex One as its Director of Football Operations. In this capacity Marotta negotiated the groundbreaking partnership between Apex One and the Dallas Cowboys for officially licensed apparel that re-wrote the way NFL licensing business was done. In addition, under his guidance, Apex One became the official, licensed footwear of the NFL. Marotta negotiated dozens of contracts with NFL and NCAA teams as well as hundreds of individual player and coach endorsement agreements with the likes of Bill Parcells, Buddy Ryan, Rodney Hampton, Jim McMahon, George Seifert, Tom Osborne, Jim Kelly, John Elway and Rick Pitino.

Marotta left Apex One in 1995 to start his own consulting practice that specialized in advising successful companies that wanted to expand their core business into sports. Among his clients were Score Media, which is now a leader in arena signage sub-letting, Fan Guide Publications and Viisage Technology, which brought its biometric, face recognition technology to stadiums and arenas post 9/11.

Early in 1999, Marotta furthered a relationship with Don King Productions that resulted in him being appointed as special adviser to the CEO, Don King. In this capacity Marotta was responsible for all marketing and sponsorship business for DKP, reporting directly to the CEO. Among the partnerships developed by Marotta was the groundbreaking sponsorship agreement between NBC-Universal and DKP to promote the movie "Cinderella Man," the first time a Hollywood studio used boxing events as a promotional vehicle.

In 2008 Marotta formed TKOB, Inc. a multi-level, integrated sports marketing company. Among the projects undertaken by TKOB (Take Kare of Business) is the production of the feature length motion picture "All Ivy" a coming of age story about a blue chip high school quarterback from a small coal mining town in West Virginia who spurns all the major football factories to attend Harvard.

Marotta started his college education at Memphis State University and later graduated from Villanova University in 1977 with a B.A. in English. After graduating from Villanova, where he started at tailback for the Wildcats, who at the time played a Division One schedule as a Major Eastern Independent, Marotta received a tryout with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL. He is single and currently resides in Wayne, NJ.