Lion Club board members announced!
We are delighted to announce the new Lion Club board members. We were amazed at the quality of the applicants. Because of the quality, we have selected three full board members and two board observers.
We think we have assembled a really talented group to help fulfil our mission — build the best NFT sports club in the world!
See below for brief bios of the new members:
Lion Club Board Members
Doug Fath
Doug has been an entrepreneur, investor and educator since his college days at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Over the last 20 years Doug has started, operated and exited businesses in the sports apparel, education, internet, finance and real estate industries. Doug has received multiple entrepreneurship awards and has been recognized at the White House and United Nations.
Doug is passionate about financial education and enjoys investing in and advising companies whether they are in start-up mode or well established operating businesses. Doug is a member of AVentures DAO, a VC DAO, that supports projects on the Avalanche blockchain from ideation to growth. Doug is also the co-founder of Legacy Company Ventures, a venture firm investing and advising companies on the blockchain.
Twitter @Deficashflows
Cordy Joseph
Cordy Joseph is the co-founder of Bitcode. His interests and expertise lie in Web 3.0, NFTs and blockchain gaming.
Jake Bloom
Senior Vice President with Criterion Management. Love to play basketball & Call of Duty. Crypto enthusiast/NFT collector. Brooklyn Nets & New York Jets fan
Lion Club Board Observers
Af Panjalizadeh
Af has an extensive career in sports most notably working within boxing at the last 3 Olympic Games, working at the Cricket World Cup and also project managing the FIFA international match between Brazil and South Korea.
Af is currently based in the UK but has worked across four continents and as a sports fan travelled to the US and Middle East to watch boxing and golf events, as well as following England across Russia in the 2018 World Cup.
Af said “The fact I was fortunate enough to go to one of the Lion Club England experiences at Club Wembley and also speak to Floyd Mayweather in one of the Q and A’s, I’ve seen first hand how amazing the utility of the Lion Club is at bringing sports fans closer to amazing sports stars and experiences and that’s why I’m so excited to be part of this project and do what I can for the membership.”
Gioele Botta
Italian born in Milan, he has a master's degrees in theoretical physics and is currently a PhD student in Warsaw in the quantum gravity research group. He has a strong passion for sports, especially basket and soccer and I have a deep knowledge of the sports card market and the most important Nfts sport-related projects.
FAQ
What is the Executive Board?
As part of our efforts around progressive decentralization, we felt that the time is right to bring the community into decision making about the future of the Lion Club.
We’ve got a magnificent community, full of amazing members with tonnes of ideas and skills and we want to utilise it!
The Lion Club Executive Board will meet monthly. It will decide on subjects such as the roadmap, what topics get voted on by the community, reporting back to the community and general governance subjects. It’s first task will be to create a Roadmap 2.0 alongside the community!
What is the role of a board observer?
The board observers will have a non-voting role but will attend the monthly meetings to add their expertise and opinions to the Lion Club
When is the $Lion token airdrop?
We are aiming to airdrop the token in early April to coincide with the first monthly meeting of the new Governance board
