impact The World For Good

Vie is a new sports and entertainment philanthropy company integrating proprietary technology, social competition, collaborative fundraising with matching funds to link Sport with Philanthropy to achieve massive scale and impact the world for good.

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Vision

One Technology to deliver a new disruptive B2B and B2C marketplace solution leveraging sport and competition to gamify giving and generate philanthropy at scale.

Mission

To raise billions of dollars for hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations worldwide – the causes they impact and the tens of millions of people in need that they serve.

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Impact

To  impact player and donor  participation, revenues and donations for benefit of sport and  philanthropy stakeholders worldwide, including charities and foundations; sport associations, leagues, teams, and athletes, sport venues (i.e. , stadiums, golf courses, health clubs), hotels, sponsors, celebrities, influencers and media.

Starting out strong

Vie is is made up of an energetic, experienced team sporting a combined total of over 200 years in the non-profit and sports industries.

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Meet Our Team

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Steven Schwartz

Steven is an executive and entrepreneur in the US and international golf industry and an expert in online sports marketing and fundraising technology solutions. Steven was CEO of Greens.com Intl. – tee time reservation company, Director of Club Operations, at CourseCo a California-based golf course management company and led the first-ever USA-Moscow Junior Golf Exchange in 1994.

“Our team is called with a servant’s heart. Sport, community and giving are our passions to make a difference in the lives of others. We are humbled by, and seek to support, the work of nonprofit leaders, staff and volunteers who daily help those we will never meet to have a better life.”

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Rich Silveira

Rich is a C-level executive and entrepreneur having held multiple positions in several startup and early stage companies. He served as Co-Founder and CEO of Interactive Imagination creating the Magi-Nation IP, which has been monetized across interactive games (Nintendo GameBoy). As CFO and CEO of Squaresoft, Inc. he expanded the Japanese RPG franchise Final Fantasy into a global brand.

“I bring a passion for sport and the desire to unite people, driving solutions and solving social problems by providing the mechanism through competition to give.”

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John Eckel

John is a globally-renowned marketing and PR executive. as CEO, GREY Global Group/Alliance Entertainment (NY), the world’s #1 PR, Advertising and Talent Agencies, Founder/SVP Global Sports, Entertainment, Hill and Knowlton (WPP Group, LA), and Edelman Worldwide (Chicago). He launched new products/brands for P&G; Pepsico, adidas/World Cup 1994, 1998; IOC Athens 2004/Beijing 2008/London 2012 Olympic Bid Committees; 8 NFL Super Bowl Halftime Shows, Ford, Mazda, Taco Bell, and dozens of others.

“Working at Vie is like being a kid in a marketing candy store – it’s a once-in-a career creative playground. I’m here to help Vie revolutionize fundraising, by elevating it to an art form, and transforming fundraising itself into the ultimate competitive sport."

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Kirsten Trusko

Veteran FinTech/banking/payments exec - with 2 main passions: Founding/driving innovative solutions/products/companies for speed and profitability. AND Creating sustainable long term financial solutions and education to build inclusion and options for the underbanked (>50mil in US alone). ProBono work is in disaster plan/respond/rebuild, AND anti-human trafficking (“follow the money”). She also serves on several Boards - for profit, incubators, mentoring women, and charities

"Getting money directly into the hands of people in need has been a passion since Katrina - in disasters and other needs for humanitarian aid - literally to provide payments as a lifeline. Rebuilding lives and communities faster is enabled by Vie leveraging big names in sports and entertainment to exponentialize charities’ fundraising."

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Howard Brodwin

Howard is a 25-year sports marketing veteran for sports brands including Rollerblade, Powerbar, K-Swiss, LPGA and nonprofits including Special Olympics World Games, Leukemia Lymphoma Society and LA Watts Summer Games. Howard is the founder of Sports and Social Change with a focus on cause marketing, CSR and social enterprise development.

"Vie’s unique mash-up of technology, sports and charitable giving gives people the opportunity to play, be active and compete, and do it all in support of charitable causes they care about. That’s a win-win in my book. Vie is a platform where everyone can step up and truly “be the change they wish to see in the world.” Are you ready? Game on!"

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Maggie Lin

Maggie is a nonprofit and millennial strategy, product and event thought leader. Start-up technology marketing experience in US and Asia. Currently advises the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation’s initiatives supporting foster care programs in the US, including as founder of Foster Nation focused on rallying millennials to champion the foster care cause through awareness campaigns and events.

"I believe strongly in the power of leveraging technology, the right minds, and the community to amplify good in the world."

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Erik Stroman

Erik is a sports & entertainment industry media and marketing executive with FOX Sports, Activision/Blizzard, News Corp., Omnicom, IWIN.com and the NFL, MLB, MLS, NHL. Erik launched the integrated sales & marketing services division of William Morris Endeavor. Sales highlights include $30MM in media sales for UPN TV and $100MM in integrated partnerships for Activision/ Blizzard

"Vie represented a one in a million sport-tech for good disruption that made me excited to be in sport all over again."

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Urayoan Camacho

Mr.Camacho is an Honorable Discharge US Marine with over 20 years of experience on Information Technology, Cyber-Security, Digital Identity, Compliance and product development. Mr. Camacho is currently the President of Fusion 1 Enterprises a multi-disciplinary solution provider that focuses on information security, compliance, product development, adversarial machine learning, identity management and innovation. He possesses the following cybersecurity credentials CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CEH, CNDA.

"I was so excited at the opportunity to join arms with a group of people with whom there was no limit of opportunity to push the envelope of what could be done through technology and do it all for the good of others."

Working Together, For Good.

Our partners have all rallied around the Vie vision.

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The Brand Amp

The Brand Amp is a Marketing and Communications Agency serving leading consumer, tech, transportation, lifestyle, sports and fitness brands. So what is the “Amp” all about? It’s about amplification through solutions that effectively deliver the tone and identity of a brand and its products to its desired audience.

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Players Philanthropy Fund

Founded by 2x Super Bowl Champion and Ravens “Ring of Honor” inductee Matt Stover and philanthropy expert Seth McDonnell, Players Philanthropy Fund (PPF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity that enables athletes, entertainers and other philanthropists to create a dedicated fund that can accept tax-deductible contributions in support of any qualified charitable mission.

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Squash

At Squash Apps our mission is to work with customers around the world to create innovative and scalable solutions. Communication is key in Agile development, and one of the top factors driving the success of our customers’ projects. One of our defining characteristics is our purposed investment in empowering women in development, with as much as 70% of our employees and 60% of our executives being women.

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Cornerstone

Cornerstone is one of the nation's leading Christian owned and operated independent sales organizations in the merchant processing industry. We have a commitment to separate our transaction processing services from the remainder of the industry. We do this by putting Christ at the cornerstone of our business. As a part of our commitment we will not process credit card transactions for morally objectionable businesses.

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PaaL

PaaL is a Coalition of top payments companies, enabling Charities, Foundations and Governments to securely deliver funds to individuals in need - controlled for spend, fraud and abuse.

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Apparation

We collaborate with innovators to build solutions that make golf more convenient, fun and affordable.... so golfers play more often.