FanWide has developed a scalable tech platform which offers sports teams and brands with unique ways to engage their remote fans. FanWide has the potential to change how millions of fans consume their sports no matter where they are in the world.
SEATTLE (PRWEB) August 16, 2019
FanWide (http://www.FanWide.com) is the company dedicated to building sports fans communities and helping remote fans find a local chapter or game watch party. The group has just added former adidas VP/GM Lawrence Norman as an advisor to help with business development and team strategy. Since launching in 2016, Seattle-based FanWide has promoted over 1.2 million fan club events for 14,000 chapters nationwide. FanWide runs the world’s largest fan club database for teams in the NFL, NCAA Football, NBA, WNBA, NCAA Basketball, MLB, NHL, soccer, rugby, racing and dozens of other leagues.
With 21 years at adidas, Mr. Norman was at the head of many of adidas’ branding efforts as the GM of Global Basketball, VP of Business and Brand Affairs and the GM for South East Europe for both adidas Reebok where he had oversight responsibility of a 400-person team that covered Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, FYROM and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mr. Norman also played four years of professional basketball in Israel and advises a few other tech startups such as, Storr (https://www.storr.co) and GameOn (https://gameontechnology.com).
“Having lived overseas for many years, I was always looking for places to support my hometown (Boston) teams. FanWide has developed a scalable tech platform which offers sports teams and brands with unique ways to engage their remote fans. FanWide has the potential to change how millions of fans consume their sports no matter where they are in the world”, said Norman.
FanWide connects sports fans living in or traveling to any city through in-person meetups organized by local fan club chapters. FanWide.com helps fan club leaders and alumni associations discover other local fans, promote their games, run contests, collect donations and measure attendance. The company also helps sports teams and leagues develops new communities and get their games featured on TVs across its network of over 10,000 local sports bars.
“We are excited to bring Lawrence onto our advisory board. As a former sports business executive who helped adidas become a worldwide brand, his guidance will be invaluable to us as we create new partnerships with professional teams and sports sponsors,” said Symon Perriman, CEO and Founder of FanWide.
FanWide encourages any interested professional or colleges teams, fan club chapters, and investors to contact the company if they are also interested in learning more about the business. FanWide was recently named “the most disruptive technology likely to shape the future of basketball” by many top sports companies and is part of the prestigious Techstars Sports accelerator. For more information on FanWide, please visit http://www.FanWide.com
About FanWide
FanWide (http://www.FanWide.com) is a free digital platform for fan clubs which helps sports fans find the closest game watch party for their favorite team at a local bar. Fans check in for deals from the venue, to enter contests from sponsors, or to earn rewards. Now sports fans living in any city can feel like they are inside the stadium of their favorite team on gameday. FanWide has promoted over a million events, manages the world’s largest database of sports fan clubs, and measures out-of-home TV viewership at over 10,000 sports bars nationwide. FanWide also provides services for professional sports teams and leagues, college athletics, alumni associations, fan clubs, booster clubs, sports brands, athletes, and TV broadcasters.
