Ben Slingerland is a sports business entrepreneur, seller and marketer who has worked at such organizations like Nike, the NCAA, IMG/WME, Student-Athlete Showcase, Catapult Sports, OnBalance and PlayerData.

Ben served as the General Manager and Student-Athlete Advisor for the Lacrosse Program at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL. Over the span of nearly three years as the General Manager, Ben tripled the size of the program and helped develop it into one of the nation’s leading boarding prep school lacrosse programs.

Prior to taking over the lacrosse program at IMG Academy, Ben headed up the sales efforts of the IMG Academy’s $4 million/year soccer camp business. Ben has held past positions at the NCAA Office of Government Relations in Washington, DC where he tracked state and federal legislation on Capitol Hill affecting collegiate athletics. Prior to that, Ben spent a summer in Beaverton, OR working at Nike’s World Headquarters. At Nike, Ben worked in the North America Soccer division where he was a sports marketer for the Nike signed professionals, the US Men’s and Women’s National teams, Nike-affiliated collegiate soccer programs, and Nike-affiliated youth soccer clubs.

From 2015-17, Ben served as the Director of Network Development at an innovative brand marketing technology company called ThirdChannel. Partnering with such brands like Under Armour, Oakley, New Balance, Wilson and GoPro, Ben and ThirdChannel helped optimize brand’s marketability within the retail environment. Following ThirdChannel, Ben transitioned into the sports science and data analytics field with Catapult Sports, where he headed up the sales efforts for Major League Soccer and NCAA D1 Olympic sports programs. Ben worked with college basketball, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey and tennis teams from the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big Twelve, MAC and SEC Conferences with Catapult’s athlete wearable and video analysis technologies.

After his 7 year tenure at Catapult, Ben took on a VP of Sales position with an early stage mental health tech company called OnBalance, shifting his focus from the physical side of athlete management to the mental side within college athletic departments. He doubled the OnBalance business in less than a year, before deciding to dive back into the wearable tracking space, taking on the Head of North America Sales role with PlayerData.

In his spare time, Ben serves as a consultant for high school soccer student-athletes and their parents in helping them navigate the college soccer recruiting landscape.

Growing up in Beverly, MA, Ben was an accomplished athlete himself. After being a three sport athlete (soccer, basketball, and tennis) and an Athletic Hall of Fame inductee at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, MA, Ben went on to play Division 1 college soccer at Georgetown University. At Georgetown, Ben served as a team captain and led the program to win its first ever Big East regular season championship title in 2010. Following Georgetown, Ben had stints playing semi-professionally with DC United’s U23 team and the Tampa Bay Rowdies. After his soccer career, Ben got his Master’s of Professional Studies in Sports Management at Georgetown University.