CULTIVATING AN ENTERPRISING MINDSET FOR GROWTH IN THE SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FORDHAM UNIVERSITY THE SCHOOL OF LAW r atra P a rt Table of Contents 1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) 2. CLE Materials Panel 4: Rainmaking: How to Create an Effective Business Development Strategy Rainmaking: How to Create an Effective Business Development Strategy CLE Materials. (View in document) Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyers Association Mid-Year Conference Speaker Bios Mason Ashe to athlete, entertainer, and lawyer mental wellness. Her Founder & CEO brief bio is as follows: Ashe Sports & Entertainment Consulting, Inc. Founder & CEO of Ashe Sports & Entertainment Dr. Crowder is currently Managing Partner with Capitol Consulting, Inc., based in Bethesda, Maryland, has 29 Health Partners. In years of experience as a sports and entertainment that capacity, she has worked on projects that improve attorney, talent manager, industry advisor, and sports health outcomes for individuals and organizations. agent. He also teaches sports law as a member of the adjunct faculty at The Wharton School of the University She has led projects that have spanned from developing of Pennsylvania, and the Howard University School of strategies for the heroin overdose crisis in Anne Law. Arundel County to conducting violence research related to the National Football League ( NFL) that led Mr. Ashe has served as the lead contract negotiator, legal to a system wide clinical audit. She has also re-designing advisor, and brand strategist for professional athletes, clinical services to improve health outcomes in financial advisors, entertainers, on-air personalities, hospital and correctional settings. Dr. Crowder has health celebrity chefs, journalists, senior leadership at publicly care and policy expertise that has led to traded and privately owned businesses, film producers, successful implementation of change at a national, state investors in delivery mechanisms designed to and local level. commercialize talent, producers of TV and web-based reality shows, and a few pioneers of online social Lisa E. Davis networking and other New Media platforms changing the Partner way digital content is created, published, distributed, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C. consumed. Lisa E. Davis is a partner in our Entertainment Group Mr. Ashe earned a BA degree in Psychology from representing businesses and celebrities in the film, Hamilton College, and a Juris Doctor degree from the television, publishing, music, theatre, and sports State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He industries. She was recently recognized as a "Leading also completed The Procter & Gamble Distributing Woman Lawyer in NYC" by Crain's New York Business Company - Executive Sales Management Training (2017), one of The National Law Journal's "Outstanding Program before attending law school. Women Lawyers" (2015), by Savoy magazine in their "Most Influential Black Lawyers of 2015", in The Best He has been listed twice by Sports Illustrated magazine Lawyers in America 2019 (Entertainment), and in on its “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports” list, Variety's "Power of Women New York Impact Report" received the 2015 Sports Lawyer of the Year Award (2014). from the National Bar Association, and recently selected Ms. Davis advises on a full range of transactional matters for a 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award in Business - focusing on film (both feature and documentary), from the SUNY at Buffalo Law Alumni Association. television, publishing, live stage and branded entertainment. Ms. Davis represents directors, writers Dr. Valda Crowder and performers in film and television, as well as Managing Partner playwrights and bloggers. In her sports practice, she Capital Health Partners represents top athletes in their "off the field" activities, Currently heading the National Football League’s Player including endorsements and investments. Engagement Department as the Senior Vice President of Player Engagement. Responsible for overseeing the Ms. Davis is chair of the board of the U rbanworld Film Player Engagement staff, developing, implementing and Festival Foundation. Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, managing educational programs and services for NFL she clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley players which assists players in reaching their highest in the United States District Court for the Southern potential on and off the field by providing guidance, District of New York. Ms. Davis is a graduate of support and resources before, during and after their NFL Harvard University (BA, 1981) and New York experiences. University (JD, 1985), where she was a staff member of Art has also agreed to assist in providing a panelist at our the New York University Law Review and a Root-Tilden mid-year symposium on one of the topics we are scholar. She is admitted to practice in New York. currently researching for consideration related to player Her popular blog, Journal of the Plague Years, chronicles wellness on and off the field. the current political environment and offers tools for resistance (www.journaloftheplagueyears.com). Moreover, Dr. Valda Crowder has agreed to be a panelist and present her research and expertise on a topic currently under consideration for the symposium related Mavis Fowler-Williams activities, Mavis cherishes capturing these special Principal moments in photographs. Intellectual Property and Technology Law in the 21st Century Jay Grant Mavis Fowler-Williams is the principal in her private Executive Vice President & General Counsel practice, Intellectual Property and Technology Law in Univision Digital and News Univision the 21st Century. She handles a full array of Intellectual Communications, Inc. Property matters for clients, primarily in the As Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Entertainment industry. Univision Communications Inc.’s (UCI) Digital and News Divisions. He recently served as EVP and General Mavis began her career in Intellectual Property law as an Counsel of Fusion Media Group (FMG), the multi- associate for the patent boutique law firm of Cooper and platform, English language division of and home to the Dunham. While she was an in-house attorney for FUSION Cable Network, The Root, Gizmodo Media Johnson and Johnson, she became a registered patent Group, and The Onion. He oversees legal matters for attorney working on numerous patent cases. Eventually, Univision Digital, Univision News, and UCI’s interest in she joined the patent group in the New York Office of the El Rey and Fusion Cable Networks. He is an officer Anderson Kill, where she was a partner. of UCI and its more than two dozen broadcasting networks, cable networks, digital and mobile properties, Mavis realized that while she enjoyed patents, she didn’t and more than 120 television and radio stations. He want a career that limited her to just handling one aspect advises senior management on strategic partnerships, of Intellectual Property. She garnered the experience and new ventures, and content acquisition & distribution reputation as a transactional specialist, negotiating, deals. He has held a variety of senior leadership revising and reviewing thousands of copyright, positions in a career spanning Los Angeles to New York, trademark and technology license agreements and other managed corporate governance and transactions for UCI IP agreements, while at top corporations: Toys “R” Us, and its board of directors, served as group counsel for Nick at Nite and TV Land, CBS News, Al Jazeera UCI’s corporate development & strategic growth group, America and ALM Media. and represented all UCI divisions. st Intellectual Property and Technology Law in the 21 Kimberley D. Harris Century has afforded Mavis the opportunity to combine Executive Vice President her experience in all areas of IP so she can better serve NBCUniversal her clients’ interests and needs. Private practice has also Kimberley D. Harris serves as Executive Vice President provided the opportunity for Mavis to pursue another of Comcast Corporation and General Counsel of passion of hers, teaching. She teaches Intellectual NBCUniversal. Property Drafting at Fordham Law School and IP Transactional Practice: Counseling, Negotiating, and In this role, Harris oversees all international government Drafting as well as the Negotiations Workshop at and regulatory affairs for Comcast, supporting the Columbia Law School. She hosted her Second Annual company’s businesses worldwide. Additionally as Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century Panel of General Counsel of NBCUniversal, Harris provides legal Artists and Lawyers in April, 2019. advice to senior management team and oversees the legal function across all NBCUniversal divisions. She reports Mavis is the author of numerous legal books and articles, to Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts and i.e. on Copyright Law and Patent Law as well as articles NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke. on copyright, trademark and entertainment law. She has also appeared on CNN, Court TV and radio and has been Harris joined NBCUniversal in 2013 from Davis Polk & featured in online publications. Wardwell, where she was a partner in the litigation department. Mavis Fowler-Williams is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, the Columbia University From 2010 to 2012, Harris served in the White House School of Engineering and Applied Science a/k/a The Fu Counsel’s Office, and became the principal Deputy Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Counsel and Deputy